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ATM – Advanced Test Manager

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Question 7 (People Skills – Team Composition)

Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team members):

This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills and professionalism.

The skill levels for each skill area for both the “technical expertise” and “testing skills” sections have been rated on a four-point scale:

- E (Expert): indicates that a person has expert knowledge and experience in the skill area

- B (Beginner): indicates that a person has some knowledge and experience in the skill area but he/she is not autonomous

- W (Wants to learn): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area but he/she wants to learn that skill

- NI (Not Interested): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area and he/she is not interested to learn that skill

The skill levels for each skill area of the “professionalism” section have been rated on a three point scale (H=High, M=Medium, L=Low).

Consider the following analysis of testing skills performed on four peoplE. Alex, Robert, John and Mark (all the skills have been rated on an ascending scalE. The higher the score, the better the skill):

Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to work specifically as test designer?

K4 3 credits

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    Alex
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    Roberta
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    John
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    Mark
Question 8 (Test Management)

During the follow-up phase the following conditions are checked:

X1. The code has been completely reviewed

X2. All the identified defects have been correctly fixed and the modified code has been compiled successfully and run through all the static analyzers used by the project without warnings and errors

X3. The modified code is available under the configuration management system with a new version number for the specified CI

If these conditions are fulfilled then the review process terminates.

Which of the following characteristics of a formal review is missing in this description?

K2 1 credit

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    Defined entry and exit criteria

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    Checklists to be used by the reviewers

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    Deliverables such as reports, evaluation sheets or other review summary sheets

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    Metrics for reporting on the review effectiveness, efficiency, and progress
Question 9 (Test Management)

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

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    Don’t prepare any test and just run the regression test suite to check that the new features don’t introduce regression

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    Make reasonable assumptions about the missing details and design lightweight tests that can be easily updated during test execution
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    Don’t design any test until the test execution starts, then communicate that test execution is blocked due to incomplete requirements

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    Even if there are only few details missing, escalate the risk to the project manager without preparing any tests