You are assigned as a Senior Test Analyst to lead a project test team composed of business users. These users have extensive business knowledge, but no testing experience. There is another test team composed of in-sourced professional testers that will also be used for this project. Your business users will be assisting the project on a part-time basis. The development team is building an application using the "V-model" development lifecycle. Your company has automated testing tools and test management systems for use by dedicated test teams. What would be an effective method to employ your business users in your testing effort?
While experience-based testing can be very effective, it does have some drawbacks. What is a drawback of experience-based testing?
In the initial release of an insurance risk assignment application, a variety of test techniques were employed, especially equivalence partitioning.
After a thorough root cause analysis of this release, it was determined that the developers tended to incorrectly use ">" and "<" rather than the ">=" and " <= " in the code at several decision points.
This caused several borderline cases to be handled incorrectly.
Based on this analysis, how would you modify your test strategy for the next version's release?
You have been provided with the following decision table that was used for smoke testing the previous release of a set of hotel reservation software.
During discussions with the Test Manager you agreed that software behavior focused on the date of reservation, especially as midnight approaches, presented additonal risk.
You need to add more tests to provide more thorough coverage of the test conditions. Which of the following techniques should you use to design more tests?
You have been working as a Test Analyst for a customer-facing application that is critical to the reputation of your company. You have worked with business users to create use
cases and captured a variety of scenarios, including both main and alternate paths. You have managed to create a suite of use cases that portrays a realistic usage model of the system.
Because of this, you will also be able to use these use cases for what other type of testing?