Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst

Within an embedded software project, the maintainability of the software is considered to be critical. It has been decided to use static analysis on each delivered software component.

Which of the following metrics is NOT a maintainability metric typically used with static analysis?

You are involved in testing a system in the medical domain. Testing needs to comply with the FDA requirements and is rated as being safety critical. A product risk assessment has been performed and various mitigation actions have been identified. Reliability testing is one of the test types that needs to be performed throughout the development lifecycle.

Based on the information provided, which of the following activities would need to be addressed in the test plan?

The following characteristics were identified during an early product risk-assessment for a software system:

• the software system needs to manage synchronization between various processes
• microcontrollers will be used that will limit product performance
• the hardware that will be used will make use of timeslots
• the number of tasks supported in parallel by the software system is large and are often highly complex.

Based on the information provided, which of the following non-functional test types is MOST appropriate to be performed?

Consider the pseudo code for the Price program:

Which of the following statements about the Price program describes a control flow anomaly to be found in the program?

A major Caribbean bank typically develops their own banking software using an Agile methodology. However, for some specific components COTS software is acquired and used. The bank does not want to create a dependency on any external COTS supplier.

As part of the test approach, portability testing will be performed. Which portability sub-characteristic is especially relevant for the Caribbean bank?