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

Test Management
Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature
organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Test Management
Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing
exploratory testing?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Test Management
Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting
an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Defect Management
Assume you are working on a defect management process to be used by a software
organization to track the current status of the defects reports for several projects.
When a defect is found for investigation a defect report is created in “Opened” state that is
the unique initial state. The defect report status has also a unique finale state that is the
“Closed” state.
The following state transition diagram describes the states of this defect management
process:

where only the initial (“Opened”) and final (“Closed”) states are indicated while the
remaining states (V, W, X, Y, Z) have yet to be named.
Which of the following assignments would you expect to best complete the defect
management process?
Number of correct responses: 1
K3 2 credits

Test Management
Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one
tester without any coding experience.
To which of the following activities would you expect the tester will contribute most?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Testing Process
Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture.
The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:
- a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
- a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system
- a CAS (Conditional Access System) system
all of them communicating with SOA Middleware.
You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional
off-the-shelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server
and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.
Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality
and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their
systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality
risk for the overall integrated system.
You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to
mitigate this risk.
Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to
perform all of them) you should plan for?
Number of correct responses: 1
K4 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