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SoftTech provides a core banking product to retail banks to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking and. as SoftTech's Test Manager, you are responsible for system testing and system integration testing of all SoftTech's products.
Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with an existing bank's systems, which are maintained by experienced developers but poorly
documented.
A specification for the 10 interfaces to the bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team. There is an estimating matrix for system integration testing that allows 2 man days per interface for preparation, plus 2 man days per interface for test execution. The exit criteria for the completion of system integration testing has been agreed as:
1. No open Severity 1 defects
2 No more than 10 open severity 2 and/or 3 defects
3. All interfaces tested
4. Cost estimate must not be exceeded
System integration test execution is scheduled to last 5 weeks, with week 5 reserved for regression and bug fixing only. At the end of week 3 the following test report has been produced (figures on a week by week basis, not cumulative):

B. Open severity 2 and 3 defects
c. Interface testing progress
d. Development resource for debugging
e. Available budget
SELECT ONE OPTION
You tend to be conservative in your project estimations because you know how many things can go wrong and extend the schedule. You manager is not happy with your estimates and thinks you are being too negative with your numbers and not trying hard enough Which estimation method should you use to provide your manager with a positive' number while still also providing the number you think is more realistic?
Which one of the following is NOT a determining factor when considering the optimal time to conduct a document review? SELECT ONE OPTION