When creating a testing budget, which item is considered a direct cost of testing?

Office rent for the entire building

Company-wide marketing expenses

A test manager has two test engineers available: Alice, who is an expert in automation, and Bob, who is a junior manual tester. The project requires both automated regression testing and exploratory testing. Alice is overallocated because she is assigned to both tasks. What is the most appropriate action to resolve the overallocation?

Assign Bob to the automated regression testing and Alice to exploratory testing

Hire an additional automation engineer

Delay the exploratory testing until Alice is available

Assign Bob to exploratory testing and keep Alice on automated regression testing

Which factor is most important when assigning a tester to a specific testing task?

The tester's personal preference for the task

The tester's relevant skills and experience

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When creating a testing budget, which item is considered a direct cost of testing?
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Which metric is most useful for monitoring the testing budget?
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A test manager uses a formula that calculates the expected effort as (optimistic + 4 × most likely + pessimistic) / 6. Which estimation technique is being applied?
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A test manager has two test engineers available: Alice, who is an expert in automation, and Bob, who is a junior manual tester. The project requires both automated regression testing and exploratory testing. Alice is overallocated because she is assigned to both tasks. What is the most appropriate action to resolve the overallocation?
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Which factor is most important when assigning a tester to a specific testing task?
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When creating a testing budget, which item is considered a direct cost of testing?

Which metric is most useful for monitoring the testing budget?

A test manager uses a formula that calculates the expected effort as (optimistic + 4 × most likely + pessimistic) / 6. Which estimation technique is being applied?

Which factor is most important when assigning a tester to a specific testing task?

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