Test Manager Advanced Changed CTAL-TM Questions

You have been asked to implement formal reviews at your company. From the list below, what are the correct characteristics of a formal review?

a. Entry and exit criteria have been defined.

b. Checklists created to be used by all reviewers.

c. Consistency with current project plan is checked.

d. Metrics on effectiveness will be gathered.

e. The review will be moderated by a lead auditor.

The previous release of an in-house invoicing application was live for 6 months before beingreplaced by a later release.

• Before it went live, €1,500 had been spent on defect prevention and a further €4,500 had been spent on writing and running tests; these tests found 80 defects and the average cost of dealing with these was €50 each.

• By the time that it was replaced, defect reports from live running showed that pre-release testing had found only 80% of the defects that were present; the average cost of dealing with the defects that went live was 12 times that of the internal failures.

Which statement is TRUE?

Your organisation has decided to move from using the V-model software development lifecycle to Agile Scrum. Due to inexperience in Agile methodologies and to mitigate risk, the next project will use a hybrid model, beginning with a traditional requirement definition phase and transitioning to an Agile Scrum approach for development and testing.

Which would be an appropriate test management task to perform FIRST for this next project?

You are the manager of a test team. You inherited most of these people from a previous manager who promoted technical skills, particularly

programming skills. As a result, your people are very strong in test automation skills, white box testing and complex test design

techniques. You have just been told that you can hire five new people. You want the new people to complement the existing skill sets and

you want to be sure the team will have a strong mutual respect.

Given the following options, who should you hire? [3]