You are a newly appointed Test Manager in an organisation that has no separate test team, no formal testing process and testing is considered to be, at best, ad-hoc in approach. The IT director is keen to introduce improvement across all areas of the organisation, not just testing. This is so that the current level of maturity can be assessed and roadmaps outlined for improving processes in a staged way. He has asked you to recommend a test process improvement model and you have suggested TMMi.
Which ONE of the following is a valid reason for your recommendation? SELECT ONE OPTION

• A.It helps address highest priority testing issues with limited formality.
• B.It naturally complements the IT director's process improvement goals for the organisation.
• C.It provides the fastest way to take testing to an optimized state.
• D.It provides bench-marking against industry averages using objective measurements.

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Which of the following statements is true regarding Fault Tree Analysis?

• A.It is used to determine the root cause of observed and potential failures.
• B.It is a formal technique used to identify the likely effects of risks.
• C.It is used to target defect-based testing.
• D.It is used to select the pairs of items to be used in pairwise testing.

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The introduction of reviews and inspections has often failed as a process improvement action.
Identify the THREE most important measures that should be taken to reduce the risk that this test process improvement will fail. 2 Credits (for 2 out of 3 correct 1 credit)

• A.Process ownership and experienced moderators who drive the inspection process.
• B.Management support
• C.Training of those involved
• D.The availability of stands and processes
• E.Usage of a more traditional software development lifecycle
• F.Alignment with software process improvement
• G.Using a reference model, e.g. TMMi

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Refer to SCENARIO 3
You are the Test Manager for a software house called "MakeMyApp" that specialise in mobile phone applications, agile techniques are used for all software development projects.
A new project is underway to develop enhancements to a 'photo sharing' application, known as
'PictureFriend'. There are two types of user account available -Premium Users and Guest Users. Guest users only have limited functionality available. The enhanced features to PictureFriend are:
* Feature 1: Guest Users can share photos with other Guest Users and Premium Users;
* Feature 2: Premium Users can edit pictures before posting to their account;
* Feature 3: Premium Users can create '3D-effect' photographs
The requirements for each feature will be broken down into a number of User Stories with acceptance criteria created for each of them. User Stories are planned and delivered in 2-week 'Sprints'. The project will have 3 sprints.
Which of the following are test planning activities that would be MOST appropriate for Sprint 1?
a) Analyse the risk for each of the user stories in sprint 1
b) Publish lest progress reports throughout the sprint
c) Arrange informal reviews of the user stories by the test team
d) Plan an automated system test suite for the user stories.
e) Specify system test conditions at a detailed level for all user stories Chose one of the following options:
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A.b and c.
• B.a and c.
• C.a and d.
• D.c and e.

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Risks should be constantly reviewed. Given the current situation, which one of the following factors is most likely to lead to a revised view of product risk? 3 credits

• A.The delivery of the application without the interface changes may upset the user community.
• B.The method used for test estimation is not accurate enough and hence the money spent on testing exceeded its budget.
• C.The concerns over the user interface raises the likelihood of a risk in that area and increases the amount of test effort needed for the user interface, thereby limiting the test effort available for other parts of the test management tool.
• D.The concerns over the user interface may lead to changes to the interface which cannot be implemented by development in time for the second test iteration.

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