What Is Quality Assistance? CT-ATLAS Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16foundation · easy

   Which statement best defines Quality Assistance in an agile context?

   • AA role held by a single quality expert who approves all releases
   • BA collaborative approach where the whole team shares responsibility for building quality into the product
   • CA set of practices focused on detecting defects after development completes
   • DA process of automating all testing to eliminate manual testing
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2. 17application · medium

   In a Scrum team, the product owner complains that the team discovers critical defects only during the system test phase, which occurs after several sprints. The team wants to adopt Quality Assistance to catch issues earlier. Which practice best supports this goal?

   • AAsk developers to perform self-testing and only involve testers at the end of the project.
   • BSchedule a dedicated testing sprint after every three development sprints to run all tests.
   • CIncrease the number of testers in the system test phase to shorten the testing time.
   • DHave testers write automated acceptance tests together with the product owner and developers before development starts.
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4. 18application · medium

   A Scrum team is planning a new feature. The product owner has provided a high-level description. To practice Quality Assistance, what should the team do first?

   • AStart coding immediately and let testers figure out what to test later.
   • BAsk the product owner to write detailed requirements and hand them to the developers.
   • CHave testers create a test plan based on the high-level description.
   • DCollaboratively define acceptance criteria and examples of expected behavior before development starts.
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5. 19foundation · easy

   How does a Quality Assistance specialist support an agile team?

   • ABy approving or rejecting each user story before it is considered done
   • BBy coaching team members on testing techniques and facilitating quality discussions
   • CBy reporting defects to management without involving the team
   • DBy writing all test cases and executing them independently
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6. 20application · medium

   A Scrum team is struggling with a high rate of defects found during integration testing. The team decides to adopt Quality Assistance. Which action best exemplifies the role of Quality Assistance in this situation?

   • ATesters work with developers to create automated integration tests and run them in the continuous integration pipeline.
   • BThe team schedules a dedicated integration testing phase before each release.
   • CTesters create a detailed integration test plan and execute it after all features are developed.
   • DDevelopers are asked to write more unit tests to reduce the number of integration defects.
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