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A test team is working long hours to achieve a deadline for release of a new product which has had problems throughout development and is well behind schedule. Which of the following is most likely to have a MOTIVATING effect on the testers in the team?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A.A planned bonus payment that will be based on customer satisfaction with the product once released.
• B.A decrease in the scope of testing that the team is responsible for
• C.Testers contributing to ideas for faster defect resolution during regular meetings with the developers.
• D.Routine measurement of outstanding defects during testing.

You are the Test Manager for a new product that is being developed according to an iterative lifecycle. At this point, you have 100% of your smoke tests automated, 20% of your functional tests and 50% of your regression tests. Your iterations are four weeks long. You are finding that with each iteration significant maintenance is required for your automated tests and you are not able to complete the testing within the planned timeframe. The test plan you created at the beginning of the project indicates that all automated tests should be run before any manual tests.
Which of the following is a reasonable change to this plan based on how the project is going? [2]

• A.Continue to run the automated smoke tests first, execute the automated regression test and new manual functional tests in parallel, and discontinue automating any new functional test cases.
• B.Run the automated regression tests first then proceed with the manual and automated functional tests, discontinuing the automated smoke.
• C.Continue to run all the automation first, performing whatever maintenance is needed and then transfer testing resources from manual testing to increase the automation coverage.
• D.Run the manual tests first and maintain the automation as time allows.

Your team has been assigned to test a loyalty card program for a supermarket chain. Because this is a highly competitive market significant investment has been made to determine the shortcomings of the products offered by competitors While the feature sets are mostly the same, there is a wide variance In usability and performance and the users perceptions of these quality characteristics Given only this information what test approach would be most appropriate?

• A.Model-based
• B.Experience-based
• C.Requirements-based
• D.Risk-based

You are the Test Manager on a project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with one that will be based on modern platforms It will be developed using an Agile lifecycle.
The main requirements for the system are:
* Loading sales data, sent electronically from the stores each evening, into a central database.
* Producing sales reports for the merchandisers, whose job is to manage stock levels in stores.
* Producing forecast reports, used to predict demand for each product, based on a combination of sales history and forecasting parameters. The parameters will be entered by the merchandisers into a browser based front end and the reports will be produced overnight.Requirements 1 and 2 are satisfied by the existing system and will be rewritten with no significant changes. Requirement 3 is new.The Data Centre Manager is concerned about the performance of overnight batch processing and the Sales and Merchandising Manager is concerned about usability. Both managers have indicated that they are keen to allocate resources to acceptance testing.You have already determined that component and component integration testing will be done by developers before any other testing.
Which option contains TWO items that would complete your test approach in respect of test levels?

• A.Acceptance testing will be done by the Product Owner during the demonstration at the end of each iteration, to which representatives from the user department and the Data Centre will be invited to observe.
• B.User acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing will be placed in the product backlog as user stories and conducted as separate exercises in parallel with the final iteration of each release.
• C.User and operational acceptance testing will be done by inviting representatives from the user department and the Data Centre to an extended demonstration on the last afternoon of the final iteration before release, in which they can run tests in the team's test environment.
• D.System testing will be performed as a series of work items that will each be placed in the product backlog as an individual user story and selected during iteration planning according to its priority relative to other user stories.
• E.Preliminary acceptance will be done by the Product Owner during the demonstration at the end of each iteration, user acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing will each be conducted as a separately planned exercise in parallel with the final Iteration of each release.
• F.System testing will be achieved by a combination of the testing that is needed for each userstory's Definition of Done, and the testing on the iteration as a whole which will be needed for each iteration's Definition of Done.

Consider the following metrics:
a Percentage of all product risks identified during initial risk analysis b. Average time taken by developers to fix defects for each severity level c. Statement coverage achieved by the component test suite d. Breakdown of defects detected by test level How many of the five primary dimensions for test progress monitoring have been addressed by these metrics?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A.1
• B.2
• C.4
• D.3