UGRD-CS6302 Application Lifecycle

Management
Prelim Quiz 1 Prelim Quiz 2 Midterm Quiz 1 Midterm Quiz 2 Final Quiz 1

ALM support you through ____.

All phases of Application Lifecycle Management

Enables you to manage resources used by your tests. You can organize your resources by
defining a hierarchical Test Resource tree containing resource folders and resources.

Test Resources
A physical devices used to identify users in secure systems.

Smart Card Authentication

A dynamic hierarchical structure based on virtual folders allows for flexibility in
manipulating the Requirements view.

Category views
Allows you to capture a group of requirements, tests, or test assets at strategic points in the
project lifecycle to mark specific milestones.

Baselining
It is a translating business goals/objectives into a realized software-enabled business
process.

Creating requirements
Using the _____, you can report flaws in your application and track their repair during all
stages of the application management process.
ALM Web client
Enabled for requirements, tests, and test assets to allow distributed teams to collaborate
and manage multiple versions of assets in parallel while maintaining data integrity and
providing an audit history of changes throughout the project lifecycle.

Version control
It supports you through all the phases of application lifecycle management. By integrating
the tasks involved in application management.

Application Lifecycle Management

This section enables you to open the ALM documentation library and other online
resources.

Help section
Module addresses the need for a stronger connection between business process modeling,
quality assurance management, and requirements definition.

ALM Business Models

Enables subject matter experts (SMEs) to work with Business Process Testing (BPT), the
HP test automation solution.

Business Components module

Contains the Analysis tree in which you organize all of your analysis items.

Analysis View module

A session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter one name and password
to access multiple applications.

Single Sign-on
Contains the Dashboard tree in which you organize dashboard pages.

Dashboard View module

Enables quality assurance managers to track application readiness by defining goals for
activities of an application release.

ALM project planning and tracking (PPT)

Enable you to create and display a dynamic graphic representation of data related to test
plans and test sets.

Live Analysis graphs

This tab enables you to manage the analysis items.

Analysis Menus tab

The HP’s strategy and software approach for modern application delivery starts with
a what?
Unified platform
This is the two modules that have been completely redesigned as part of this release of
ALM 12.0.

Requirements Management and Defects Management

Tests the performance of the application for criteria such as number of concurrent users that
the application supports and the response time of the application.

Cycle 3 - Performance Testing

If an application flaw is detected while running a test set, you can submit a defect.

True

Milestones are used to measure progress in project planning and tracking.

True

You can not customize each KPI to reflect your needs.

False

______ are the means for setting objectives on Project Planning and Tracking releases and
for planning and tracking release progress towards these objectives throughout its duration.

Thresholds

The Release Scope tab enables you to define and update release scope items.

True

Indicates whether the scheduled calculation is currently running.

Active/Inactive

The testing process begins with defining defect in the Management module.

False

A test set folder in the Test Lab module contains tests that are covered by your
requirements.

True

Tests the new features of the application implemented in the release.

Cycle 1-New Features

This cycle ensures that the new features meet the expectations of the business.

Cycle 4-User Acceptance Testing

Cycle 2 can start before the end of cycle 1.

True
This cycle tests the new features with existing features that might have been impacted by
the changes.

Cycle 2-Integrated System Testing

In the definition phase, the QA/project manager defines the scope, milestones, and KPIs for
the project in ALM.

False

Displays the progress of a release in a Gantt chart.

Master Plan tab

After adding a cycle to a release, you specify the details for the cycle using the _____.

Details tab
Displays KPI calculations that enable you to determine the status of your release.

Scorecard tab
The Detailed tab enables you to select content to include in the release scope item.

False

_______are checkpoints on a release timeline used to verify that the release and its interim
deliverables are progressing as planned.

Milestones
When you assign a requirement to a cycle, the requirement is not automatically assigned to
the release.

False

You convert requirements to tests to automatically create a one-to-one mapping between

Requirements and Test.
Enables you to add and remove traceability links between requirements

Relationships

This tab enables you to determine the business criticality, failure probability, and functional
complexity of a requirement by assigning it values directly or by assigning values to a set of
criteria

.Assessment Questions tab

This area displays the assigned or calculated values of the risk and functional complexity of
an assessment requirement.

Assessment Results tab

To create the Test Plan tree in the Test Plan module, you manually create folders and add
tests to these folders. true

A good test plan enables you to assess the quality of your application at any point in the
application management process. true

A test can cover more than one Requirement and a requirement can be covered by more
than one test.

Enables you to associate the selected requirement with other requirements in the
requirements tree

Requirements Traceability

A Parameter is a variable that can be assigned a value during test execution.

After you select an automatic method for conversion, you cannot customize the conversion.

False

Enables you to view your requirements hierarchically in a tree.

Requirement Tree
Clearly defined requirements help developers set a target for themselves and the testing
team to identify their testing priorities.

Aids development and testing

Enables you to create links between requirements and other entities

.Requirements Details

After finalizing the testing policy for your requirements, you can Generate a risk report that
details your testing strategy for the analysis requirement.

After defining the subjects in the Test Plan tree, the next step is to add and define the
specific tests to be performed for each subject.

True

The Test Plan module enables you to Devide your application according to functionality.

What is the third stage of the testing process?

Test Planning

A Test script contains the actions that must be performed during test execution.

The ________ module addresses the need for a stronger connection between business
process modeling, quality assurance management, and requirement definition.

ALM Business Models

Before defining manual tests, you specify the detailed steps to execute each test

False

You use the ________ to add an existing test or component to the Tests and Components
list. Open button
You can _______ to a Word or PDF file. This file contains the run summary, step status, and
defect information for the run session.

Export a Storyboard

Which of the following is not part of the steps to run in Power mode using injection?

Click the Browse button

Enables you to instruct ALM to automatically send a status alert email to the author when
the test set completes execution.

Set automation options

Enables you to record additional details about the actual test execution results.

Actual Field

Enables you to manage the execution of manual and automated tests and document their
results.

Run the tests

To create a _____, click the New button in the Plan area.

New Test

Enables you to create and edit tests or components directly in Sprinter and save them to
ALM.

Sprinter's Plan mode

Contains tests that you can assign to cycles in the Management module. This association
allows you to review the progress of tests, determine the number of resolved and
outstanding defects, and enhance your reporting ability.

Test Set folder

The ______ module allows you to view all test runs for your project in a grid.
Test Runs

You run tests ________ from ALM using HP Sprinter.

Manually

A group of tests designed to achieve specific testing goals.

Test Set

When you are in ________, Sprinter keeps a record of all your user actions, which you can
view as a list or in the Storyboard at the end of your run.

Power mode

Enables you to control the execution of automated tests by setting test run conditions and
creating a schedule.

Organize test runs

Provides a clear picture of the test building blocks and assists in the execution of the actual
tests.

Develop the Test Sets tree

This scanner checks your application for errors resulting from translating the application’s
UI into different languages.

Localization scanner

This allows you to design a scanner that detects the desired items in your application.
Custom scanner

This scanner, relevant only for web applications, checks your application for broken
hyperlinks and missing referenced content.

Broken links scanner

If you know that a test in your test set might fail, but you want to make sure that subsequent
tests in the test set still execute, which of the following should you do?

Ensure that the execution condition for the arrow running out from the test is set to
Finished.

Which of the following new features allows you to perform testing with a single motivation
of identifying defects?

Exploratory testing

You can ­________ a defect to record all the information about an issue and to record the
decisions made as different individuals review the defect.

Regularly update

If test instances are present in multiple test sets, you can associate defects with test
instances to ensure easy traceability. True

Before navigating to the Test Instance Details dialog box, you link a defect to the test
instance. False

After you make changes to an entity, you _____ the entity. Check in

You can associate defects with tests to ensure their traceability throughout the testing
process.

True

Provides filter fields from where you can define criteria for filtering the data listed in the
Defects grid.

Grid filter
You can also share the settings (filter, sort, and group by settings) with another user by
pasting them to an e-mail or a text file.

False

Evaluating defects and defect trends helps you make effective go/no-go decisions.

False

If you want to make changes to an entity in a version control enabled project, what is the
first thing you must do? Check out the entity

Provides a tabular list of the defects logged for a project.

Defects grid

You can create and manage entities in a version control-enabled project in both tree and
grid views.

True

Provides an audit trail of changes made to each defect.

History tab
You can copy and paste the filter, sort, and group by settings to another project.

True

Managing and tracking defects is a critical step in the testing process because it involves a
lot of time and money.

True

The ____________ relationship enables you to identify the status of defects to determine
whether requirements have been met.

Defect-Requirement

The project administrator for your organization can _______ version control through ALM Site
Administration.

Enable or Disable

You can save filter and sort information as a favorite view and then load it as needed.

True

Commands available to ALM files under version control are accessed by right-clicking the
file node in the Solution Explorer tool window.

True
By default, records appear in Quality Center in the

Increasing Order

Order in which they were added

None of these

Decreasing Order

If you would like to revert an entity to a previous version, which of the following actions
would you take?

Promote the entity