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?

• A.The chart indicates that you have plenty of problems left to find
• B.The chart can be used to reveal test progress problems
• C.The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is working well
• D.The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is not working well

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Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table?

• A.The system architect and the chief software engineer should contribute to assess the priority. The expert tester is the only one who should contribute to assess the detection.
• B.The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the detection.
• C.The aircraft pilot is the only one qualified to contribute to assess the priority and thus should be assigned this task. The customer representative should contribute to assess the detection.
• D.The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the detection. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the priority.

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Test Management
You are the Test Manager of a new project aimed at developing a software system that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard. The project will follow a V-Model software development life cycle and it will have four formal levels of testing: component, integration, system and acceptance testing.
You must produce the test plan documentation for this project by providing an adequate coordination across the four levels of testing in order to assure auditability.
Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?

• A.Produce a single master test plan that covers in detail all four levels, describing the particular activities for all test levels
• B.Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a separate acceptance test plan
• C.Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four levels, and four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level
• D.Produce four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level, without a master test plan

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You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system.
During the quality risk analysis you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection).
Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with?
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• A.Wide Band Delphi
• B.A lightweight product risk analysis technique
• C.Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
• D.Cost of Exposure

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Reviews
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?
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• A.I. and III. are true; II. and IV. are false;
• B.I, III and IV are true; II. is false;
• C.III. and IV. are true; I and II are false;
• D.II. and III are true; I. and IV. are false;

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