You Are the Test Manager on a Project Following an Iterative

question 28

Multiple Choice

You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add the additional features in the last six iterations. At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit tested. Which of the following statements is true in this context?

• A) The system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen.
• B) You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations.
• C) You should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration.
• D) You should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model.

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