You Are the Test Manager of a New Project Aimed

question 40

Multiple Choice

You are the Test Manager of a new project aimed at developing a software system that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard. The project will follow a V-Model software development life cycle and it will have four formal levels of testing: component, integration, system and acceptance testing. You must produce the test plan documentation for this project by providing an adequate coordination across the four levels of testing in order to assure auditability. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?

• A) Produce a single master test plan that covers in detail all four levels, describing the particular activities for all test levels.
• B) Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a separate acceptance test plan.
• C) Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four levels, and four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level.
• D) Produce four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level, without a master test plan.

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