MITS5501

Software Quality, Change Management and

Testing

MOCK Final Assessment

June 2020

This is a MOCK final assessment for your practice ONLY.

This is not marked.

The instructions in this document are of the final

assessment.
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QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED

1. Under what circumstances would you consider State Transition testing?

2. If we have created a Test Policy as the first step in the Test Process Model, why do we need
a Test Plan? What advantage does it provide?
3. Consider the following code snippet:

Do while not EOF

read record
if
FIELD_COUNTER > 7
then
increment COUNTER_7 by 1
else if
FIELD_COUNTER > 3

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 then
increment COUNTER_3 by 1
else
increment COUNTER_1 by 1
endif
endif
End_While End

a. Develop test cases for full branch coverage

b. . Develop test cases for full condition coverage
4. Each critical defect detected takes approximately 6 days to locate fix and re-test, each High
defect detected takes approximately 2 day to locate fix and re-test and each critical defect
detected takes approximately half a day to locate, fix and re-test We initially allowed for a
testing time of 10 tests per day – that’s 40 days for testing, and we also allowed another 40
days for error fixing and re-testing. That’s 80 days in total for the testing and error fixing
effort. Will we be able to complete the testing effort within the time budget allowed for this
project? If we can, what assumptions have you made? If not, why not? Again, are there any
assumptions you made? What metrics will you need to calculate to arrive at an answer?
5. Discuss Acceptance testing. What is the purpose, who is involved and what types of
Acceptance testing can we do?
6. A software development firm is planning a new airport luggage control project. The system is
to control luggage transfer from the terminal to the planes, from the planes to the terminal’s
luggage release system, and from plane to plane (for transit passengers). The airport
requires the highest reliability for the system and wishes to initiate several new applications
that have yet to be implemented in another airport.
a. What SQA methodology should be implemented for this project? List your
arguments.
b. Would you recommend integration of additional methodologies in the plan? If
yes, what are they and what are their main contributions to the project?

7. The success of an SQA system depends to a great extent on compliance to SCM procedures.

a. Referring to the software change control tasks of SCM, explain in your own words the risks
incurred to software quality by partial compliance to SCM procedures.

b. Referring to the release of new versions of the software system, explain in your own words the
risks incurred to software quality by partial compliance to SCM procedures.

c. What tools are available for verification of compliance to SCM procedures?

8. What sort of errors do we detect in integration testing and under what conditions does it become
important.

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