QuestionQ3

Managing the Test Activities

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?

  • A You should plan for lightweight exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects
  • B You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects
  • C You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development phase and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the people responsible for those bugs
  • D You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing
Explanation

Formal exit-phase reviews support a documented review process with defined roles and detect defects earlier, reducing reliance on more costly dynamic testing. Phase containment can be assessed and improved only when defect information records the phase in which defects were introduced, detected, and removed; comparing those phases identifies defects that escaped their originating phase and directs process improvements.

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