Free BCS ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Management v3.0 TM3 Exam Questions

You are a tester working in an Agile team in the finance domain. The team consists of 6 members, and you are the only tester. The team is responsible for the development and maintenance of a mobile front-end application. The application is considered to be critical with respect to customer impact and market branding.

You have been asked to identify which test management activity needs to be performed within the team to enhance test maturity and achieve a higher level of product quality.

Which test management activity would you recommend the team should adopt?

During a test process improvement initiative, defect information is gathered to perform defect cluster analysis.

Which aspect is most likely being targeted for improvement?

You are involved in the selection of a test management tool and have decided to calculate the ROI for the two potential tools: TestMaker and

ImproveIT.

TestMaker is priced at 15,000 with yearly maintenance costs of 1,500. Its traceability to requirements feature is strong and the defect

management process can easily be customised to meet the needs of the organisation. Effort for test management activities is expected to

decrease by 20%.

ImproveIT is priced at 20,000 with yearly maintenance costs of 2,500. Its traceability feature is also strong and has a high level of usability. It

also has interesting options for adding extensions to its features in the future. Effort for test management activities is expected to decrease by

30%.

Based on the calculated ROI, which tool would you suggest?

Management is sceptical regarding the budget request (25,000) for the next testing project. You are asked for a cost-benefit calculation. Based on historical data from several projects, you have the following numbers:

Average prevention cost per defect: 200

Average cost of detection per defect: 400

Average cost of internal failure: 150

Average cost of external failure: 2,500

Expected number of defects to be found in this project during testing: 50

What is the result for the expected cost-benefit calculation for the upcoming project?

You are the only tester in an Agile team. The test policy states that only defects that need to be solved outside the team are documented. You are receiving complaints from developers from other teams that they do not receive sufficient defect information to be able to efficiently and effectively solve the defects. You have used the ISO 29119 standard to identify which attributes could be added to the current defect report template.

Which two of the following options would be best to add to the current defect report template to solve the current issue?

Three exit criteria have been defined for a project:

A: Test cases passed is more than 70%

B: Number of outstanding defects is less than 5

C: Number of defects per test case is less than 0.5

The first week of the testing has shown the following results:

Evaluate the status of the project against the defined exit criteria.

Which of the following activities in the test process is considered to deliver a document which can be used as a major input for test process improvement?

You are a test manager developing a master test plan. As part of the master test plan, you are defining exit criteria for the various test levels.

Which of the following exit criteria would be most appropriate and SMART for component testing, and which one would be most appropriate and SMART for system testing?

i. 95% of the tests prepared are executed successfully

ii. All test cases have been run

iii. 80% decision coverage for all tests run

iv. At least 30 defects have been found

v. At least two weeks of test execution

vi. No more open defects

You are a test consultant involved in setting up and implementing retrospectives in an organisation that is developing software based on an

Agile lifecycle. The Agile teams are experiencing problems on product quality, so the retrospectives will be specifically focused on the testing

practices and processes.

Which of the following is an example of a good practice for a test retrospective?

In an Agile context, defects are often fixed without writing a formal defect report. However, there are some conditions where it is good practice

to write a defect report, even in an Agile context.

When is a defect report typically not written in an Agile context?