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You are working on an Agile project to develop a web-based online dating service that will allow members of the service to enter their profile, meet people who would be a good match for them, arrange social events with those people and to block people with whom they do not want contact.
Functional correctness, usability, performance and security are all important but the major concern for the stakeholders is data protection. Two environments are available for testing: the regular one is similar to the development environment, the other is a pre-production environment which is configured to become the live system when operation begins, but has currently been loaded with a representative volume of artificial profiles.
The features for member profile entry have been delivered and tested. The current iteration will deliver profile matching, which will be done on-demand in response to a request from a member to see matching profiles in their browser. The tests for these user stories' acceptance criteria will be aimed primarily at functional correctness and will be scripted. Performance testing and security testing will be done by external specialists when the functionality is stable.
The other TAs in the team are on sick leave and only have time for one exploratory test session before the end of the iteration. What is the MOST appropriate test charter in these circumstances?

• A. Explore the profile matching features With the regular environment To discover any functional issues that were not covered by the story acceptance criteria
• B. Explore the profile matching features With the pre-production environment To discover any functional or performance issues
• C. Explore the profile matching features With the regular test environment To discover any usability issues and security vulnerabilities
• D. Explore the profile entry features With the regular test environment To discover any functional issues that might affect matching

Your company, which specializes in medical software, has designed an application for use on smartphones and tablets that calculates a person's BMI, Body Mass Index.
How can a Test Analyst BEST contribute to interoperability testing for this application?

• A. Verifying that users with disabilities can access their BMI effectively and efficiently using the application
• B. Verifying that the application co-exists with other health applications on the target device without affecting their performance
• C. Verifying that the application integrates with the national health service system, receiving and processing the correct BMI data file
• D. Verifying that the application works on all intended target smartphones and tablet devices and their operating systems

You are working on an Agile project to develop a web-based online dating service that will allow members of the service to enter their profile, meet people who would be a good match for them, arrange social events with those people and to block people with whom they do not want contact.
The features for member profile entry have been delivered and tested. The current iteration will deliver profile matching. The regression tests for profile entry will be the acceptance criteria for its user stories. These tests have not been automated yet so you have decided to perform regression testing on the basis of a checklist.
Which checklist would be BEST in these circumstances?

• A. A do-confirm checklist whose items are the acceptance tests of the user stories for profile entry
• B. A read-do checklist whose items are the acceptance criteria of the user stories for profile entry
• C. A read-do checklist whose items are the acceptance tests of the user stories for profile entry
• D. A do-confirm checklist whose items are the acceptance criteria of the user stories for profile entry

You are working on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have purchased and, from these details, create a purchase request.
* Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it or return it for clarification / modification.
* Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
* Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier for each approved request and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
The solution is being developed according to the company's traditional V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model.
The main release has now been live for three months and you are working on the first maintenance release.
The test manager has asked you, the senior TA, to identify those parts of the test process which were most and least effective at finding defects in the main release.
You have collected statistics for the independent test activities, i.e. excluding developers' testing, including only the 178 defects in the three highest of your five defect severity levels. The results are presented in the table below:

Assume that all defects not found at the first opportunity could have been, e.g. that all defects that escaped into acceptance testing were within the scope and objectives of system testing. By applying Defect detection percentage (DDP) analysis, which test activity was LEAST effective?

• A. Test design, including solution design review
• B. Acceptance testing
• C. Test analysis, including requirements review
• D. System testing

You have been appointed to be a TA in the development of a road traffic control application, which will be installed at busy road junctions to control the operation of traffic signal lights according to sensors that detect traffic volume on the various approaches to the junction. The project is still in the early stages of test planning, but it is already clear that despite a tight schedule its safety-critical nature demands careful and thorough testing.
You have been asked to decide whether automated test design would deliver benefits. Which characteristic of automated test design is MOST important for the development of this system?

• A. Less maintenance effort for the testware after the system has gone live
• B. Testware can be generated in various output formats, e.g. for use by different tools
• C. Testware generated by tools usually contains fewer mistakes than testware created manually
• D. Creating the model will expose defects in the test basis early in the project