Everything You Need to Pass: isqi CTAL_TM_SYLL2012

You can count on well-written requirements, but you can’t count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?

People Skills – Team CompositionConsider the following analysis of testing skills performed on four people: Alex, Robert, John and Mark (all the skills have been rated on an ascending scale: The higher the score, the better the skill):Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to work specifically as test designer?

Defect Management -Assume you are working on a defect management process to be used by a software organization to track the current status of the defects reports for several projects.When a defect is found for investigation a defect report is created in “Opened” state that is the unique initial state. The defect report status has also a unique finale state that is the “Closed” state.The following state transition diagram describes the states of this defect management process:where only the initial (“Opened”) and final (“Closed”) states are indicated while the remaining states (V, W, X, Y, Z) have yet to be named.Which of the following assignments would you expect to best complete the defect management process?

Improving the Testing Process -Consider the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:I: Test process improvement is important because being focused only on the test process it can provide recommendations to improve the test process itself, but it can’t indicate or suggest improvement to areas of the development processII: Test process improvement is important because it is much more effective than software process improvement to improve the quality of a software systemIII: Test process improvement is important because several process improvement models (STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the yearsIV: Test process improvement is important because every organization, regardless of the context, should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing described in the test improvement models such as TMMiWhich of the following answers is correct?

Test Tools and Automation -In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in use: a requirements management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool.You are the Test Manager.You are currently evaluating a test automation tool of the same vendor (to complete the vendor's tool suite) against an interesting open-source test automation tool under the GNU GPL (General Public License).There are no initial costs associated to that open-source tool.Which of the following statements associated to the selection of the open-source tool is correct in this scenario?

Testing Process -Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture.The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:- a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system- a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system- a CAS (Conditional Access System) systemall of them communicating with SOA Middleware.You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional off-the-shelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality risk for the overall integrated system.You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to mitigate this risk.Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to perform all of them) you should plan for?