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TM12 – ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level- Test Manager (2012)

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Question 1

You are the Test Manager of a project that adopts a V-model with four formal levels of testing: unit, integration, system and acceptance testing.

On this project reviews have been conducted for each development phase prior to testing, which is to say that reviews of requirements, functional specification, high-level design, low-level design and code have been performed prior to testing.

Assume that no requirements defects have been reported after the release of the product.

Which TWO of the following metrics do you need in order to evaluate the requirements reviews in terms of phase containment effectiveness? (Choose two.)

Select all that apply, then click Submit answer.

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    Number of defects found during the requirements review.
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    Total number of defects attributable to requirements found during unit, integration, system and acceptance testing.
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    Total number of defects found during functional specification review, high-level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing.
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    Time to conduct the requirements review.
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    Total number of defects attributable to requirements, found during functional specification review, high-level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing.
Question 2

Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications.

You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item):

a BOOT-X CSCI that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard a DIAG-X CSCI that must be certified at level C of the DO-178B standard a DRIV-X CSCI that must be certified at level A of the DO-178B standard

These are three different software modules written in C language to run on a specific hardware platform.

You have been asked to select a single code coverage tool to perform the mandatory code coverage measurements, in order to meet the structural coverage criteria prescribed by the DO-178B standard. This tool must be qualified as a verification tool under DO-178B.

Since there are significant budget constraints to purchase this tool, you are evaluating an open-source tool that is able to provide different types of code coverage. This tool meets perfectly your technical needs in terms of the programming language and the specific hardware platform (it supports also the specific C-compiler).

The source code of the tool is available.

Your team could easily customize the tool to meet the project needs. This tool is not qualified as a verification tool under the DO-178B.

Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool selection? (Choose three.)

Select all that apply, then click Submit answer.

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    Does the tool support all the types of code coverage required from the three levels A, B, C of the DO-178B standard?
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    Does the tool have a good general usability?
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    What are the costs to qualify the tool as a verification tool under the DO-178B?
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    Is the installation procedure of the tool easy?
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    Does the tool require a system with more than 4GB of RAM memory?
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    Is the licensing scheme of the tool compatible with the confidentiality needs of the avionics company?
Question 3

During the system testing phase, a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is currently in a “new” state, indicating it needs to be investigated.

Which THREE of the following information items can’t yet be present in the incident report? (Choose three.)

Select all that apply, then click Submit answer.

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    The type of defect that caused the failure
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    The actual and the expected result highlighting the failure
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    The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced
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    What really caused the failure (actual cause)
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    Steps to reproduce the failure, including screenshots, database dumps and logs where applicable