Test Planning

Question 1

What is a test plan?

Answer 1

A documentation of the goals, concerns, methodology, and metrics for testing

Question 2

When writing a test plan, being too ______ can be a problem.

Answer 2

specific

Question 3

Why should you use test plans?

Answer 3

If you skip this, you will likely test the wrong thing

Question 4

What are some of the contents of a test plan?

Answer 4

Purpose and objective
Requirements
Schedule
Evaluation Criteria (Test Requirements)
Expected Risks
Deliverables

Question 5

What are some types of testing that can be included in a test plan?

Answer 5

Unit
Integration
System
Acceptance
Regression

Question 6

Objectives on a test plan including specifying the _______ under test, _________ and __________ requirements

Answer 6

software, functional, non-functional

Question 7

Some environmental factors of a test plan include _______, _________ and other preconditions

Answer 7

platform, resources

Question 8

What are 3 ways to handle intractability from multiple configurations?

Answer 8

Test most common configurations
Test most extreme scenarios
Combinatorial testing

Question 9

What are some deliverables?

Answer 9

Coverage report, docs, test scripts, logs, summaries of failures

Question 10

A monolithic and high risk project will need more ______ documentation. If it’s more fast paced and low risk, you can put ____ detail

Answer 10

detailed, less

Question 11

What is there a tendency against test plans?

Answer 11

Lighter weight approaches can examine higher level project quality

Question 12

What is Attribute Component Capability? How it it arranged?

Answer 12

Organizing your test process with a matrix that shows how software attributes are satisfied.
Attributes and components form the coloumns and rows of a matrix
Capabilities fit into the cells

Question 13

What are the benefits and risks of ACC?

Answer 13

Benefits: Act on easily, adjust, changes over time
Risks: Not suitable for high risk systems