A team wants to shift testing left by integrating testing into their CI pipeline. They currently have a large suite of end-to-end tests that take over an hour to run. Which approach best enables shift-left testing without sacrificing feedback speed?

Run the full end-to-end suite on every commit to ensure maximum coverage.

Remove end-to-end tests entirely and rely only on unit tests.

Run a fast subset of unit and integration tests on every commit, and run the full end-to-end suite on a nightly or merge basis.

Run the end-to-end suite only after the release is deployed to production.

A company wants to release software to production more frequently and reliably. They have a mature automated test suite but are concerned about the risk of manual release steps. Which approach best supports continuous delivery?

Use a dedicated release team to perform all production deployments.

Keep the current manual release process but run more tests before release.

Automate the deployment pipeline so that every change that passes automated tests is ready to deploy, with a manual approval for production release.

Automate the entire pipeline, including deployment to production, with no manual approval.

A team wants to reduce the cost of fixing defects by finding them earlier in the development lifecycle. They are adopting shift-left testing. Which action best exemplifies this approach?

Run all tests only after the code is fully integrated.

Use production monitoring to detect defects after release.

Involve testers in requirements review and design discussions before code is written.

Increase the number of testers in the system test phase.

A team wants to ensure that test environments are identical to production and can be recreated quickly for each release candidate. They currently set up environments manually. Which practice should they adopt?

Use the same test environment for all release candidates to save time.

Use infrastructure as code to define environments in version-controlled templates.

Take a snapshot of a production server and clone it for test environments.

Create a detailed runbook for manual environment setup.

A team has deployed a new version of their service. They want to use observability to detect issues that automated tests missed. Which combination of practices is most effective?

Run a full regression suite in production after deployment.

Monitor only the application's CPU and memory usage.

Rely on user support tickets to identify problems.

Collect logs, metrics, and traces, and set up dashboards and alerts for key indicators.

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26application · medium
A team wants to shift testing left by integrating testing into their CI pipeline. They currently have a large suite of end-to-end tests that take over an hour to run. Which approach best enables shift-left testing without sacrificing feedback speed?
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27application · medium
A company wants to release software to production more frequently and reliably. They have a mature automated test suite but are concerned about the risk of manual release steps. Which approach best supports continuous delivery?
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28application · medium
A team wants to reduce the cost of fixing defects by finding them earlier in the development lifecycle. They are adopting shift-left testing. Which action best exemplifies this approach?
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29application · medium
A team wants to ensure that test environments are identical to production and can be recreated quickly for each release candidate. They currently set up environments manually. Which practice should they adopt?
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30expert · hard
A team has deployed a new version of their service. They want to use observability to detect issues that automated tests missed. Which combination of practices is most effective?
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