Test Tools and Automation
Assume you are managing a test automation project for a mission-critical system.
Because vendor provided tools and open source solutions don't meet the needs of this
project, you ask your test team to develop a custom automation framework.
Which of the following management issues associated to the development of this custom
automation framework is least likely to manage?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Test Management
The following chart plots the cumulative number of defects opened against the cumulative
number of defects closed during system testing of a software product.

Which of the following statements is true?
Number of correct responses: 1
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Test Tools and Automation
In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in use: a
requirements management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool.
You are the Test Manager.
You are currently evaluating a test automation tool of the same vendor (to complete the
vendor's tool suite) against an interesting open-source test automation tool under the GNU
GPL (General Public License).
There are no initial costs associated to that open-source tool.
Which of the following statements associated to the selection of the open-source tool is
correct in this scenario?
Number of correct responses: 1
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Test Management
Based on the historical data of 5 past and similar projects, you have calculated these
average numbers of defects detected in system testing:
- for each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200 defects
- for each person-month of development team effort, 49 defects
You want to use this information to perform estimation for a new project.
The project manager tells you that he/she has estimated 20000 new LOC for this new
project.
Four developers work for four months on this project before system testing.
During system testing, 797 defects are discovered.
Assume that the system test of this new project is using the same amount of work as spent
in the past projects.
Based on this information only, which of the following statement is certainly true about this
project?
Number of correct responses: 1
K3 3 credits

The following is the unique “critical” quality risk item that has been identified:
CR-RSK-1. The GUI of the application might accept non-integer values for the input field
designed to get the number of bottles from the user
Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been
identified:
TC-SEL-2. Test the selection of the package sizes
TC-SEL-4. Test wrong numbers of bottles for an order
TC-CR-RSK-1. Test the accepted values from the input field designed to get the number of
bottles from the user
Assume that you have used traceability to determine the logical test cases that cover all the
requirements and the single risk item identified in that scenario.
Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete and correct, and covers the
REQ-SEL-4 requirement?
Number of correct responses: 1
K3 2 credits

Improving the Testing Process
Consider the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:
I. Test process improvement is important because being focused only on the test process it
can provide recommendations to improve the test process itself, but it can’t indicate or
suggest improvement to areas of the development process
II. Test process improvement is important because it is much more effective than software
process improvement to improve the quality of a software system
III. Test process improvement is important because several process improvement models
(STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the years
IV. Test process improvement is important because every organization, regardless of the
context, should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing described in the
test improvement models such as TMMi
Which of the following answers is correct?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be
possible to find high-priority bugs in low-risk areas.
Furthermore the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product
risks in a risk-based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount
of testing.

Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?
Number of correct responses: 1
K3 2 credits

Test Management
Assume you have some data related to confirmation testing during system testing of a past
project.
In that project 240 bug reports have been opened once, 80 were opened twice, 10 were
opened three times and no bug reports have been opened more than three times.
You estimate that a bug report, which has failed its confirmation test, costs, on average, 3
person-hours.
Which of the following statements correctly describe the value of these confirmatory testing
activities based on cost of quality?
Number of correct responses: 1
K3 2 credits