Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.
The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through a set of web services.
The requirements specification document contains several SLAs (Service Level Agreements) like the following:
SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of up-to 5000 concurrent users
The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test objectives in this scenario?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service
• B. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels
• C. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met
• D. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment

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
-a SMS (Subscriber Management System) system and you performed a risk analysis based on these subsystems.
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?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. SMS
• B. SOA
• C. BRM
• D. CRM

You can count on well-written requirements, but you can't count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Automate all functional and non-functional system tests
• B. Apply systematic and exploratory testing for integration and system test
• C. Perform exploratory testing sessions with adequate charters covering security aspects
• D. Extract from the defect tracking system of the previous project all the security defects and failures, and classify them to support design and execution of specific tests

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?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Considering the executed tests, you should reduce the test coverage back on the risk analysis and adjust downward the priority of the associated risk items
• B. Neglect your management activities and work side-by-side with your test team executing tests
• C. Convince all the people of your test team that each of them is an important and needed member, and that their contribution is fundamental to the success of the team
• D. Favor and encourage a proactive attitude where people ask for new tasks as soon as they finish their current tasks

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

• A. 40000 LOC have been delivered to system testing (against the 20000 LOC planned by the project manager)
• B. The number of defects found during the system test phase on the new project is approximately proportional to the development team effort
• C. More LOC than planned have been delivered to system testing with a higher defect density than the past projects
• D. The code for the new project contains a higher defect density than the code of the past projects