A QA manager is comparing traditional testing with continuous testing to present to stakeholders. They want to highlight the key difference in how feedback is used. Which statement best captures this difference?

Traditional testing is automated, while continuous testing is manual.

Traditional testing provides feedback at the end of the development cycle, while continuous testing provides feedback throughout the pipeline.

Traditional testing is faster than continuous testing.

Traditional testing is performed by developers, while continuous testing is performed by a separate QA team.

A team has a pull request quality gate that requires a minimum code coverage of 80%. A developer submits a pull request that adds a new feature but the coverage is only 75%. The developer argues that the missing coverage is for error-handling code that is difficult to test. What is the best course of action?

Lower the coverage threshold to 75% to accommodate the pull request.

Merge the pull request and create a follow-up task to improve coverage later.

Ask the developer to remove the error-handling code to avoid the coverage issue.

Require the developer to add tests for the error-handling code, even if it takes extra time.

A team is running a continuous discovery experiment to test a new feature. The results are inconclusive because the sample size was too small. The team is under pressure to make a decision. What is the best course of action?

Abandon the feature because the experiment did not provide clear results.

Ask the team to vote on whether to proceed with the feature.

Make a decision based on the inconclusive results and move forward.

Run a follow-up experiment with a larger sample size to get more reliable data.

A large enterprise is adopting DevOps and wants to implement continuous testing. They have a legacy application with a slow, flaky end-to-end test suite that takes over two hours to run. The team wants fast feedback on every commit. What is the best strategy to balance speed and coverage?

Run the end-to-end suite only when a release is planned.

Run the full end-to-end suite on every commit, accepting the long feedback time.

Run only static analysis on every commit and rely on manual testing for functionality.

Run a fast subset of unit and integration tests on every commit, and run the full end-to-end suite less frequently, such as nightly.

Where in a CI/CD pipeline are tests typically executed as part of continuous testing?

Only in the development environment

At multiple stages, such as build, integration, and deployment

Only in the production environment

Only after the code is merged to the main branch

Certified Tester Quality in DevOps

Domain 2Objective 2

Continuous Testing and Feedback CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 5)

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21expert · hard
A QA manager is comparing traditional testing with continuous testing to present to stakeholders. They want to highlight the key difference in how feedback is used. Which statement best captures this difference?
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22expert · hard
A team has a pull request quality gate that requires a minimum code coverage of 80%. A developer submits a pull request that adds a new feature but the coverage is only 75%. The developer argues that the missing coverage is for error-handling code that is difficult to test. What is the best course of action?
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23expert · hard
A team is running a continuous discovery experiment to test a new feature. The results are inconclusive because the sample size was too small. The team is under pressure to make a decision. What is the best course of action?
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24expert · hard
A large enterprise is adopting DevOps and wants to implement continuous testing. They have a legacy application with a slow, flaky end-to-end test suite that takes over two hours to run. The team wants fast feedback on every commit. What is the best strategy to balance speed and coverage?
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25foundation · easy
Where in a CI/CD pipeline are tests typically executed as part of continuous testing?
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