ATM: Advanced Test Manager

You are the Test Manager for a project developing a Pay-TV company web customer portal that enables customers—with a smartcard and a set-top box—to buy digital content.

On the select page, the system shows a dialog in which the customer can choose the digital-content items he or she is interested in. From this page, he or she can add one or more items to a shopping cart. An item comprises a product and a duration.

There are three product types: Movie, sport, and premium (movie and sport).

There are four possible durations: 1 months, 2 months, winter (from the beginning of January to the end of March), and summer (from the beginning of July to the end of September).

Every combination of product and duration is permitted to define an item. Therefore, there are twelve possible items. A maximum of six distinct items may be added to the shopping cart at one time.

When the customer chooses to check out, he or she goes to the purchase page, where the total cost of the shopping cart can be paid in three different ways:

• using a credit voucher
• using credit already charged on the smartcard
• using a credit card (accepted credit cards are Visa, MasterCard, and Great Wall Card)

The customer may log out from both the select and purchase pages. In that case, no purchase is made.

You decide to use a blended risk-based and reactive testing strategy, and the following are a subset of the exit criteria for system testing:

• EXCR1- Each "critical" quality risk item must be covered by at least one test condition
• EXCR2- Each "critical" requirement must be covered by at least one test condition

You are using a risk-based testing strategy. Test execution time is very limited. Assume all product risk items require approximately the same test effort.

Which of the following answers describes the best execution schedule in this scenario?

Assume you are working on a CAS (Conditional Access System) for Pay-TV that enables authorized users to access, select, and transfer services and media. Authorized users may select services through different channels: Web Customer Portal, IVR (Interactive Voice Response), Call Centre, and SMS. The system uses a Smart Card to receive and decrypt the broadcast encrypted control words that permit decryption of pay-per-view TV. Each authorized user must have a Smart Card and a Set-Top Box to view the content.

The following is an extract from the product risk analysis document:

Both likelihood and impact are rated using this scale: (1 Very low, 2 Low, 3 Medium, 4 High, 5 Very High).

The required test environment and code have been delivered. All test cases for every identified product-risk item have been written and are ready for execution.

The database used to store the Smart Cards is empty; therefore, only new Smart Cards can be used during test execution.

A Smart Card can be activated only if it was previously pre-activated. Thus, the post-conditions for executing the test cases that test pre-activation of the Smart Card are the pre-conditions for Smart Card activation.

Which of the following statements is the most effective stakeholder contribution to completing the failure mode analysis table?

The key objectives the senior management team seeks to achieve are:

• to reduce costs associated with dynamic testing
• to use reviews to ensure that the project remains on course for success and follows the plan
• to use reviews as a well-documented and effective bug-removal activity that follows a formal process with clearly defined roles
• to determine the effectiveness of reviews in terms of phase containment
• to improve phase-containment effectiveness

Which of the following answers would be expected to describe the best way to achieve these objectives?

You are estimating the effort required for integration-testing activities in a new project. Consider the following factors, which may affect that estimate:

1. Availability of reusable test systems and documentation from earlier, similar projects
2. Unanticipated timing of component arrivals
3. Stability of the integration test team (no turnover)
4. Many geographically distributed sub-teams

Which of the following statements is true?

Which statement about test reporting activities is correct for a project that adopts an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations, such as two-week iterations?