Testing Challenges in Agile at Scale Product Development CT-ATLAS Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A financial services company has 12 agile teams building a single trading platform. Each team owns a set of microservices and releases independently. Recently, a major release caused a production incident because two teams changed the same API contract in incompatible ways. The teams want to prevent this class of problem. What should the test leadership implement first?

   • AA shared contract testing suite that runs in each team's CI pipeline and is maintained by a central quality group.
   • BA single integration branch where all teams merge their code daily and run the full regression suite.
   • CA nightly integration test environment where all teams deploy their latest builds and run end-to-end tests.
   • DA mandatory code freeze for all teams two weeks before every production release.
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2. 7application · medium

   A company is scaling from 3 agile teams to 12 teams. Previously, the teams worked on separate products and had minimal integration issues. Now they are working on a single platform with many interdependencies. The test leadership is concerned about the new challenges. What is the most important thing to address first?

   • AImplement a stricter change management process to control all changes to the platform.
   • BHire more testers to increase the overall testing capacity.
   • CAsk each team to write more unit tests to reduce the need for integration testing.
   • DEstablish a clear integration testing strategy that defines when and how integration testing will be performed.
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4. 8application · medium

   A global company has 6 agile teams in different countries working on a single product. They have a shared test environment, but teams often overwrite each other's test data. The test leadership wants to improve coordination. What is the most effective action?

   • ARestrict access to the test environment to only one team at a time.
   • BCreate a shared document that lists who is using the environment and when.
   • CImplement a test data management strategy that provides each team with its own set of test data.
   • DSchedule a daily meeting where teams coordinate their test environment usage.
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5. 9expert · hard

   A company has 12 teams working on a product. They have a CI pipeline that runs unit tests and a nightly integration test. The integration tests often fail due to environment issues, not actual defects. The test leadership wants to improve the reliability of the integration tests and provide faster feedback. What is the most effective approach?

   • AHave a dedicated team manually fix the environment whenever an integration test fails.
   • BIncrease the frequency of the integration tests to run after every merge.
   • CDisable the integration tests until the environment is stable.
   • DInvest in a more stable test environment by using infrastructure as code to provision it consistently.
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6. 10foundation · easy

   What is a challenge when implementing test automation across multiple teams with varying practices?

   • AAutomation reduces the need for coordination between teams
   • BTeams may use different automation tools, making it difficult to share and reuse test assets
   • CAutomation frameworks are always consistent across teams
   • DAutomation eliminates the need for manual testing entirely
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