Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – The business advises during iteration 5
planning that they require changes to the system delivered in iteration
3. Of the following activities, which would need to be done first to
minimize the introduction of regression risk when this feature is
changed?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which TWO of the following are reasons why automation is essential within agile projects?
(i) So that teams maintain or increase their velocity
(ii) To prevent the test team from becoming bored with manual, repetitive tasks
(iii) To retest all test cases from previous iterations
(iv) To eliminate regression in the product due to high code churn
(v) To ensure that code changes do not break the software build
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – In agile projects there is more need for
testers to understand and develop test automation scripts than in
traditional projects. Of the following, which are the TWO reasons why
this is a necessary skill on agile projects?
(i). Requirements change
daily and have to be regression tested. This rapid change requires
automated tests because manual testing is too slow.
(ii). The tests should generate feedback on product quality as early
as possible. So all acceptance tests should be executed in each
iteration, ideally as modifications are made. In practice that can only
be realized by automated tests.
(iii). Test-First and Continuous Integration Practice require that
the regression test suite is executed whenever changed code is
checked-in. In practice that can only be realized by automated tests.
(iv). Iterations or sprints are of fixed length. The team has to
guarantee that all tests can be completely executed at the last day of
each iteration/sprint. In practice, that can only be realized by
automated tests.
(v). Agile projects rely on unit testing rather than on systems
testing. Since unit tests cannot be executed manually, all tests have to
be automated tests.
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which tasks are typically expected of a tester on an agile project?
(i) decide on user acceptance
(ii) design, create and execute appropriate tests
(iii) schedule defect reports for analysis
(iv) automate and maintain tests
(v) improve program logic by pair programming
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which of the following is NOT a typical task performed by the tester within an agile team?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – The term “burndown” refers to which of the following?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which of the following statements about Test Driven Development (TDD) is FALSE?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – What does the term ‘Test Pyramid’ refer to and illustrate situations for?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which of the following demonstrates effective use of the testing quadrants?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Given the following user stories:
“As a bank teller, I can easily navigate through the system menu and links, and find the information I am looking for”
“For all users, the system must display all queries in less than 2 seconds, 90% of the time”
And the associated test cases:
TC1: Login as bank teller. Enter customer ID. Verify that the
customer transaction history is easy to find, and that navigating
through the menus is intuitive.
TC2: Login as bank teller: Enter customer Name. Verify that the
customer accounts are easy to find and that navigating through the menus
is intuitive.
TC3: Simulate expected traffic on system and validate the time for
customer transaction history to display is less than 2 seconds.
Which TWO test quadrants would the above test cases be part of?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – At the beginning of the 5th iteration of a
project, a new requirement was introduced to support a new type of
browser. The tester realizes that the existing test automation framework
and scripts will not support the new type of browser. What is the best
course of action for the tester on this team to take?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Given the following results from a product
risk analysis that occurred at the beginning of an iteration:
• User story 1 (Performance): likelihood: high, impact: high
• User story 2 (Security): likelihood: high, impact: high
• User story 3 (Functional): likelihood: medium, impact: high
• User story 4 (Functional): likelihood: high, impact: medium
• User story 5 (Compatibility): likelihood: low, impact: low
• User story 6 (Recoverability): likelihood: low, impact: low
Which TWO of the following describes best what the team should do with this information?Select TWO options.
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Given the following user story: “As the
president, any data I upload should not be viewable by any other user of
the system”
During the first poker planning session, the following
story points were given based on risk, effort, complexity, and proper
extent of testing:
Customers: 5
Developers: 5
Testers: 20
What is the best outcome following this planning session?
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – An agile team is assigned to a project to
update an existing medical device to newer technologies. Since the last
release of the existing medical device, a new version of the medical
device standard has been released. User access to the device is changing
and will be documented in user stories. Based on this information, and
in addition to the user stories, which of the following would best
provide relevant information to support your testing activities?
(i). Updated version of standards document for medical system.
(ii). Existing defects or typical defect areas in existing system.
(iii). Obsolete user access test cases and results for existing application.
(iv). Performance metrics for existing application.
(v). Defects logged during other similar conversion projects for medical devices.
Practice ISTQB Agile Tester Questions and Answers – Which alternative is the BEST description of
when to stop testing (release criteria) in an agile project?