When should configuration management procedures be implemented?

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Options

• ADuring test planning.
• BDuring test analysis.
• CDuring test execution.
• DWhen evaluating exit criteria

• A
  86% (18)
• C
  5% (1)
• D
  10% (2)

Explanation

Configuration management (CM) procedures must be established during test planning because this is when the framework for the entire test effort is defined - including how test items, environments, documents, and results will be identified, versioned, and controlled. Setting up CM at this stage ensures every artifact is traceable and reproducible before any test work begins.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (Test analysis): By this phase, test conditions are already being identified and documented - CM needs to already be in place to track them properly.
• C (Test execution): Far too late; test environments and scripts must already be under configuration control before execution starts, or results become unreliable.
• D (Evaluating exit criteria): This is near the end of testing; applying CM here means the entire test process ran without proper version and change control.

Memory tip: Think of CM like laying train tracks - you must lay them before the train runs, not while it's moving. "Planning" = preparation phase = when you set up the rules that govern everything else.

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