Question 1

From the 7 Fundamental Software Testing Principles, describe any 2 of the principles and briefly discuss how each of them can guide a project team to incorporate automation in software testing and overall Quality Assurance in a project (8 marks).

Question 2

Describe and justify the 3 most important information security constructs that should be incorporated in your testing process when working on a project that aims at developing an ecommerce system for a Canadian merchant (9 marks).

Question 3

From your knowledge and personal experience, briefly explain how the concepts of Software Quality Assurance and Testing have been applied in your workplace.If you are not currently employed, share times when you have or could observe these theories, and how you could apply the knowledge from this course to an employment opportunity (5 marks).

Question 4

An application under test has a total number of 920 bugs, the 5 man project team has resolved 482 bugs in 30 days. In order to continue with the project, the team needs to measure their test effort performance or bug fix rate. Calculate the bug fix rate for the project. If nothing is changed, how many days will it take the team to resolve the rest of the bugs? And if 3 project team members are added to the team, how many days will it now take the entire team to complete the testing project? (8 marks).

Question 5

Identify 5 possible bugs that could be found when testing the online check-in subsystem of a commercial airline ticketing system, and briefly describe the bug tracking steps that can be followed to fix and resolve the bugs using a bug tracking tool (10 marks).