ISTQB ATM Exam Dumps

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating factor for testers? K2 1 credit

An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always workeD. - in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system - in safety-critical projects, with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget. This agile team is focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget. Which of the following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario? K2 1 credit 

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor for testers? K2 1 credit

Assume you are managing the system testing execution phase of a project. The system test execution period for that project is scheduled for eighteen weeks and the release date is scheduled at the end of system testing. During the sixth week of system test execution, at the staff meeting, the project manager informs you that the project deadlines are changed and the release date that is only three weeks ahead. This new release will not allow the completion of the system tests. Suppose also that you have followed a risk-driven test approach for this project. Which of the following statements represents the worst way to lead your test team in the next three weeks? K2 1 credit

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? K2 1 credit

After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project. You have already identified the member of your test team who will be the administrator of the tool, since he/she has a significant experience with the administration of test management tools and so he/she is able to make effective and efficient up-front decisions about "how" the tool will be used. You have also developed a training plan for the other members of your test team. In collaboration with the administrator of the tool you have also devised standard ways of managing, storing and maintaining the tool and its assets including backup/restore procedures. You have also analyzed standard formats supported by the tool (CSV, XLS, XML, etc.) to export, import and archive all the information managed by the tool itself (requirements, test case specifications, test plans etc.) for compliance with the most important test management tools, in order to minimize the impacts of migrating this information to a new tool that could replace the existing one in the future. Which of the following phases in the lifecycle of the new tool has NOT been adequately considered in this description? K2 1 credit

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? K2 1 credit

Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications. You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item): - a BOOT-X CSCI that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard - a DIAG-X CSCI that must be certified at level C of the DO-178B standard - a DRIV-X CSCI that must be certified at level A of the DO-178B standard These are three different software modules written in C language to run on a specific hardware platform. You have been asked to select a single code coverage tool to perform the mandatory code coverage measurements, in order to meet the structural coverage criteria prescribed by the DO-178B standard. This tool must be qualified as a verification tool under DO-178B. Since there are significant budget constraints to purchase this tool, you are evaluating an open-source tool that is able to provide different types of code coverage. This tool meets perfectly your technical needs in terms of the programming language and the specific hardware platform (it supports also the specific C-compiler).   The source code of the tool is available. Your team could easily customize the tool to meet the project needs. This tool is not qualified as a verification tool under the DO-178B. Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool selection? K4 3 credits (2 credits out credits correct, 1 credit point)

Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the required responsiveness. Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to evaluate the ability of the application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same responsiveness. Which of the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation? K2 1 credit

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? K2 1 credit

A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and significantly above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase. Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole, not related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been addressed during the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were present in the integrated system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas. Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to be considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved? K3 3 credits

Which of the following statements about the TMMi test process improvement model is true? K2 1 credit

Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true? K2 1 credit

Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis? K2 1 credit 

During the system testing phase a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is currently in a “new” state, indicating it needs to be investigated. Which THREE of the following information items can’t yet be present in the incident report? K3 2 credits (2 credits out credits correct, 1 credit point)

Consider a defect report and assume that a part of its lifecycle includes the following states: New: Is the initial state WorkinG. Means that the developers are addressing the defect in order to produce a fix for the defect Clarification: Means that the developers need more information from the tester to address the defect and produce a fix for the defect and the tester is working to provide this information to the developers Verification: Means that a fix for the defect has been produced and the tester is running the adequate tests to verify whether the fix solves the defect CloseD. is the final state Which of the following answers represents an invalid sequence of states that can’t lead the bug report to the “Closed” state? K2 1 credit 

You are a Test Manager working for a software organization where reviews have never been applied. After a meeting with your managers examining a business case for reviews, (including their costs, benefits, and potential issues), the management finally decides to adopt formal reviews for future projects. You have been given a budget that you have spent to provide training in the review process and to introduce the review process on a pilot project. On that pilot project the introduction of reviews has been very positive in terms of positive involvement from all the participants. All the reviews applied to different documents have been very effective for their purposes (especially at revealing defects). Which of the following answers describes an important success factor for the introduction of formal reviews which is missing in this scenario? K4 3 credits

You are the Test Manager of a project that adopts a V-model with four formal levels of testinG. unit, integration, system and acceptance testing. On this project reviews have been conducted for each development phase prior to testing, which is to say that reviews of requirements, functional specification, high-level design, low-level design and code have been performed prior to testing. Assume that no requirements defects have been reported after the release of the product. Which TWO of the following metrics do you need in order to evaluate the requirements reviews in terms of phase containment effectiveness? K3 2 credits

Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review? K2 1 credit

Consider the following list of statements about audits and management reviews: I. Audits are usually more effective than management reviews at finding defects II. Audits and management reviews have the same main goals, the only difference is related to the roles and level of formality III. A typical outcome of an audit includes observations and recommendations, corrective actions and a pass/fail assessment IV. An audit is not the appropriate mechanism to use at the code review in order to detect defects prior to dynamic testing Which of the following statements is true? K2 1 credit 

In the next two months some new features will be constantly added to new releases of a project you are working on as Test Manager. You have identified as one of the main project risks, that the requirements specification will still be incomplete when your team starts the test design and implementation phase. Some requirements will most likely be completed too late to allow a proper test preparation. You and your test team have already worked on several similar past projects in the same organization. Which one of the following options would you expect to be the most effective at mitigating this risk? K4 3 credits 

You are managing the system testing for a SOA based system. The integrated system consists of several subsystems: - A SOA middleware - A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system- A BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system  At the end of the scheduled period for test execution you produce a first classical report based on the traditional metrics of testing. Test pass/fail status and bug status (open/resolved) That table provides you a distorted picture of the quality risk, because there is no indication of the risk level of the failed tests, the tests not run, or the open bugs. Thus, you produce the following table to solve this distortion issue: In the table above, where you have introduced the concept of risk weighting, the highest risk test or bug report has a score of 1, while the lowest risk test or bug report has a score of 0.04. Which of the following subsystems, based on the risk scores of the table, is most risky? K4 3 credits

Consider the following test strategies: I. Consultative test strategy II. Reactive test strategy III. Analytical test strategy IV. Process-compliant test strategy Consider also the following examples of test activities: 1. Prioritize the test cases, based on the results of a FMEA analysis, to ensure early coverage of the most important areas and discovery of the most important defects during test execution 2. Execute usability testing driven by the guidance of a sample of users (external to the test team) 3. Perform exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase 4. On an Agile project, execute tests that cover the test conditions identified for each user story of a feature planned for an iteration Which of the following correctly matches each test strategy with an appropriate example? K2 1 credit 

In the test strategy document your organization declares: - To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testinG. unit, integration and system testing - To use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of testing The following is an excerpt of the “approach” section for the system test plan document of a new project: “Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test analysis and test design. Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed (passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected).” In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described. Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true? K4 3 credits

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