In an agile team, the testers are skilled in manual testing but have limited programming experience. The developers are strong coders but are not interested in test automation. The team needs to build a sustainable automated test suite. What is the best way to distribute responsibilities?

Have testers design test cases and specify expected outcomes, while developers implement the automation code.

Hire a dedicated automation engineer to handle all test automation.

Assign all test automation to the testers and require them to learn programming.

Assign all test automation to the developers and let testers focus only on manual testing.

How do testers and developers typically collaborate on test automation in agile?

Testers work alone on automation and developers work alone on code.

Testers and developers work together to define test scenarios and automate them.

Testers only perform manual testing and developers only write code.

Developers automate all tests and testers only review results.

Which type of non-functional test is most commonly automated in agile iterations?

Accessibility tests that require manual inspection.

Usability tests that require human judgment.

Performance tests that simulate load on the system.

Security tests that require ethical hacking.

Why is it important to refactor automated tests regularly?

To make the tests more complex and thorough.

To improve their readability and maintainability.

How does test automation complement exploratory testing?

Automation and exploratory testing are mutually exclusive.

Automation replaces the need for exploratory testing.

Automation handles repetitive regression checks, freeing testers for exploratory testing.

Automation is only useful for exploratory testing.

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