BCS TM12 actual dump : ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level- Test Manager (2012)

Which of the following is an example of the test closure activity indicated as "lessons learned"?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Deliver a list of the open defects of a software product released into production to the service desk team
• B. Participate in a meeting at the end of a project aimed at better managing the events and problems of future projects
• C. Deliver an automated regression test suite, used during the system test phase of a software product released into production, to the team responsible for maintenance testing
• D. Archive all the test results of the acceptance testing phase

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

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

You are estimating the effort for the integration testing activities of a new project. Consider the following factors, which can affect that estimation:
I. Availability of re-usable test systems and documentation from previous, similar projects
II. Unexpected timing of components arrival
III. Stability of the integration test team (no turnover)
IV. Many and geographically distributed sub-teams
Which of the following statements is true?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. II. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation
  I and III. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort
• B. I and II. can negatively affect the estimation
  III and IV. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort
• C. II. and III. can negatively affect the estimation
  I and IV. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort
• D. III. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation
  I and II. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

You are the Test Manager of a new project that will have three formal levels of testing: unit, integration and system testing. The testing strategy you decide to adopt a blend of risk-based testing and reactive testing strategies.
Which of the following answers describes the most consistent example of implementation of this test strategy during the execution of the system tests?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Your test team autonomously performs some exploratory testing sessions and, at the very end of the system testing phase, it also executes more system tests under the guidance of a sample of users
• B. Your test team executes exploratory tests following a session-based test management approach throughout the system test phase
• C. Your test team executes system tests under the guidance of a sample of users throughout the system test phase
• D. Your test team executes scripted tests designed and implemented before the execution of the system test phase, to cover the identified product risks. It also performs exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase

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

• A. Define very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test
• B. Exploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable
• C. Break the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions
• D. Define very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements