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I.
GENERAL SKILLS (CATEGORY 1)
1. COMMUNICATION (DOMAIN 1)
1.1 Giving/Receiving Information
1. List five suggestions for relaying defect information and/or performing criticism effectively.
2. What are three reasons why people don’t listen well?
3. Give one example of an effective audience evaluation technique that can be used to level-set a
testing presentation or design a course for test or development staff.
4. How do you know if the information you provided to an audience has been understood and
communicated effectively?
5. Give three examples of pertinent information that should always be included with defect reports.
1.2 Personal Effectiveness
1. You are the quality assurance manager at the APEX company. One of your quality assurance analysts
is engaged in a dispute with a developer over the cause of a defect reported by the analyst. What
can/should you do?
5. What are the four verification activities that should occur at the design phase?
2.
Describe the characteristics of a test bed.
11.2 Design Execution
1. Give three techniques for creation of test data.
2. A test script includes a procedure for executing the test and what other components?
(Name at least 3)
12. PERFORMING TESTS (DOMAIN 12)
12.1 Execute Tests
1. Execution of a test in a test plan can only occur during the test “phase” of a project life cycle.
True or False Why?___________________________________________________
12.2 Compare Actual versus Expected Results
1. To compare actual to expected results, the tester first designs test cases, which include at least
these three components:
_____________________
______________________
12.3 Test Logs
1. What is the purpose of a test log?
2. What type of information should be included on a test log?
12.4 Record Discrepancies
1. The purpose of recording defects is to make a complete record of all discrepancies found during
testing. The input to this task would include (name 3 items):
______________________
2. A defect can be identified in three ways. Name them.
______________________
13. DEFECT TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT
13.1 Testing Defect Corrections
1. Who should review defect reports?
2. Regression testing is the easiest way to uncover defects.
True or False Why?
V.
TEST ANALYSIS, REPORTING, AND IMPROVEMENT (CATEGORY 5)
14. QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT (DOMAIN 14)
14.1 Test Completion Criteria/Metrics
1. What is the purpose of code coverage tools?
2. Give four examples of test specific metrics.