ISTQB CTFL Study Session Section 5

October 2006
Aberdeen Global IT Team

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 Overview

Introductions
Review of Section 5 Practice Quiz
Open Forum

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 Introductions

Name

Tenure With Firm

Primary Job Function(s)

Testing Tools Used

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 1. Select one that is not strength of a third-party testing
organization
a. Expertise in test project management
b. Run tests quickly
c. Expert consulting and training services
d. None of the above

d. None of the above

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 10, p.382-83.
Syllabus Section 5.1.1

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 2. Testers should have access to the following in a test lab

a. Bug testing database

b. Test tracking spreadsheet
c. System configuration tracking database
d. a, b, & c

d. a, b, & c
Managing the Testing Process, chapter 10, p.268.
Syllabus Section 5.1.2

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 3. Choose an incorrect statement:

a. Testers at the component and integration level should be developers

b. Testers for risk-management should be test analysts
c. Testers at the acceptance test level should be business experts and users
d. Testers for operational acceptance testing should be operators

b. Testers for risk-management should be test analysts

Syllabus Section 5.1.2

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 4. Exit Criterion determines:

a. When testing needs to continue

b. When system is ready for delivery
c. When testing has been completed
d. All of the above

c. When testing has been completed

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 2, p.54.
Syllabus Section 5.2.3

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 5. The testing effort may not depend on the following factor:

a. Characteristics of reported bugs

b. Characteristics of the product
c. Characteristics of the development process
d. The outcome of testing

a. Characteristics of reported bugs

Syllabus Section 5.2.4

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 6. Risks allow us to decide where to (pick 2)
a. Design, code, and conduct testing
b. Focus in the test plan
c. Start testing and where to test more
d. Testing is used to reduce the risk of an adverse effect occurring, or to reduce
the impact of an adverse effect
e. a&b

c. Start testing and where to test more and

d. Testing is used to reduce the risk of an adverse effect occurring, or to reduce the impact of
an adverse effect
Syllabus Section 5.5.2

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 7. When testers report to their test managers about their testing
effort, the focus should be on ____________.
a. Boundary conditions, state machines, and load generators
b. Risk management and impact of serious test escapes on the reputation and
revenues of the company
c. a & b
d. None of the above

b. Risk management and impact of serious test escapes on the reputation and
revenues of the company
Managing the Testing Process, chapter 9, p.342-43
Syllabus Section 5.5.1

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 8. Enforcement of source and version control standards is often
delegated to Quality Assurance groups.
a. True
b. False

a. True
Testing Computer Software. Chapter 1, p.63
Syllabus Section 5.4

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 9. Select one that should not be part of selection of a test
approach:
a. Risk of failure of project
b. Skills and experience of the people
c. The objective of testing endeavor and mission of the testing team
d. Regulatory aspects and nature of product/business
e. None of the above

e. None of the above

All are valid for the selection of a test approach.
Syllabus Section 5.2.5.

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 10. Instead of buying repeated tasking from independent test agency, a
test manager should ask for test plan, test cases, and suggestion for
further work:

a. True
b. False

a. True
Testing Computer Software, chapter 15, p.351
Syllabus Section 5.1.1

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 11. The role of test leader cannot be performed by:

a. Project manager
b. Configuration manager
c. Development manager
d. QA manager
e. Manager of test group

b. Configuration manager
Syllabus Section 5.1.2

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 12. Automated tests should consider:

a. Time cost to create automated tests

b. Test delay due to creation of automated tests
c. Risks of missed bugs
d. Partial automation
e. All of the above

e. All of the above

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 11, p.196
Syllabus Section 5.1.2

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 13. Choose one statement that is incorrect. Performance testing:

a. Can be tested using glass box or black box techniques

b. Objective is performance enhancement
c. Can be used to provide numerical estimate of required quality for gauging purposes
d. Can reflect bugs, especially when a part of the program used to run quickly is now slow

c. Can be used to provide numerical estimate of required quality for gauging purposes
Testing Computer Software, chapter 3, p.49
Syllabus Section 5.2.2 and 5.2.3

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 14. Which of these criterions are essential for beginning and
completing various test phases?
a. Entry criterion spells out what must happen to allow a system to move into a particular
phase
b. Continuation criteria define those conditions and situations that must prevail in the testing
process to allow testing to continue effectively and efficiently
c. Exit criteria addresses the issue of how to determine when testing has been completed
d. All of the above

d. All of the above.

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 3, p.53-54
Syllabus Section 5.2.2 and 5.2.3

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 15. Metrics should be collected during and at the end of a test level
in order to assess:
a. The adequacy of the test objectives for that level
b. The adequacy of the test approach
c. The effectiveness of the testing with respect to its objectives
d. All of the above

d. All of the above

Syllabus Section 5.3.2

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 16. The costs involved in testing and quality assurance is ___________ than the
costs associated with external failures.

a. More
b. Less
c. Same
d. Unimaginable

b. Less
Managing the Testing Process, chapter 11, p.404
Syllabus Section 5.3.1

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 17. The point of writing problem reports is to get bugs ________
a. Analyzed
b. Reported
c. Fixed
d. Documented

c. Fixed
Testing Computer Software, chapter 7, p.65
Syllabus Section 5.3.2

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 18. Problem summary reports distributed to management should
list:
a. Report number, severity
b. Report number, severity, summary
c. Report number, severity, summary, suggested fix
d. Report number, severity, summary, categorization

d. Report number, severity, summary, categorization

Testing Computer Software, chapter 5, p.69
Syllabus Section 5.6

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 19. It is important to analyze complicated problem reports. The
objectives of the analysis should not be to:
a. Find target customers who will be most affected
b. Find the most serious consequences of the problem
c. Find the simplest, shortest, and most general conditions that will trigger the bug
d. Find related problems

a. Find target customers who will be most affected

Testing Computer Software, chapter 5, p.77
Syllabus Section 5.6

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 20. Dynamic and __________ approaches, such as exploratory testing
were testing is more reactive to events than pre-planned, and where
execution and evaluation are concurrent tasks.
– Consultative
– Regression-averse
– Analytical
– Heuristic

d. Heuristic
Syllabus Section 5.6

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 Open Forum

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