ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester - Extension. Ctfl-at: Chapter 1

Is the following statement true of false? While having contracts with customers may be important, working in regular and close collaboration with them is likely to bring more success to the project.

• True

• False

What is the highest priority according to the twelve principles of the core Agile Manifesto values?

• Finding bugs and fixing them

• Always attend the daily stand up meetings

• Reprimand testers who are unable to find large number of bugs

• Satisfy customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software

One way to provide rapid feedback is by continuous integration

• True

• False

Successful teams have been observed with as few as three people and as many as nine.

• True

• False

What are the common practices across most of the agile practices?  

• Collaborative user story creation

• Retrospective

• Continuous integration

• Release and iteration planning

• All of the above

• None of the above

Kanban is used to optimize the continuous flow of tasks by minimizing the (average) lead time for the complete value stream

• True

• False

During the creation of a user story, business representative stated that the profile creation form must have validation for all the information fields. Developers suggested to have validation only for necessary fields and to leave unnecessary fields out. What would be a testers contribution to this discussion?

• We should not put too much validation, otherwise it may increase testing tasks

• Validation is needed only for email address

• Once the page is submitted, profile creation should not take more than 2 seconds

• User story be estimable ,so that accurate estimation can be done for associated testing and development tasks

The Kanban process allows releasing its deliverables item by item, rather than as part of a release. Is the above statement true or false?

• True

• False

Agile Manifesto has the following statement of values:  

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

Which of the following is true about Agile Manifesto ?

• Choices on the right have more value than choices on the left

• Choices on both sides have equal value

• Choices on the left has more value than choices on the right

• Choices on the left and right have mixed values.

An Agile team has been selected for a new project. The team consists of 9 people including developers, testers and business representatives. All the team members share the same work-space and participate in daily stand-up meeting. The team wants to implement whole team approach in their daily practices. What can be done to get the most benefit according to whole-team approach concept ? i.  Making quality everyone's responsibility. ii. Make the team bigger by bringing in more testers and developers. iii. Reduce business representatives as they do not produce code or test feature. iv. Leverage the skills of every team mate, enabling various skill sets in the team. v. Making collaboration exclusive only between developers and business representative. vi. Enhance communication and collaboration within the team.

• I only

• I, ii, iii

• I, iv and vi

• Iv and vi only

• Iv, v, and vi

The concept of involving testers, developers and business representatives in all feature discussion is known as the power of  ________

After starting to continuous integration, team members in an agile project are more confident about their product and have constant visibility of their progress towards completion. How continuous integration helps to gain such benefit?

• Continuous integration uses tools to autoamted most of the tasks

• Code is compiled,built,deployed and tested on a daily basis and each days work begins with a stable system

• Only testers with strong technical background are used in continuous integration.

• None of the above

Scrum does not provide guidelines on how to do testing.

• True

• False

Communication,simplicity,feedback,courage and respect - what do these terms correspond to ?

• 5 values that XP embraces to guide development

• XP principle

• Scrum Best practices

• Kanban guideline to software development

Risk analysis is done only during release planning, not during iteration planning.

• True

• False

Which of the following are reasons for specification problem for software ? i.  user's lack of insights into their true needs ii. absence for global vision for the system. iii. redundant or contradictory feature iv. miscommunication.

• I,ii,iv

• Ii,iii,iv

• I,ii,iii

• I,ii,iii,iv

Which of the following is true about XP, Scrum and Kanban ? i. Scrum dictates specific software development technique (e.g. test first development) ii. Scrum and Kanban both use the visualization of workflow through task/white board or Kanban board iii. Iteration is essential in Scrum while it is not so for Kanban iv. Scrum visualizes and optimize the flow of work within a value-added chain.

• I,iii and iv

• Ii and iii

• I, ii and iv

• Ii only

Which of the following are NOT true about release and iteration planning? i. Planning is an ongoing activity. ii. first iteration planning can start even after completing a number of iteration at the beginning of the project. iii. Release planning provide the basis for test approach and test planning. iv. Business representative establish and prioritize user stories for the release, in collaboration with the team

• Ii

• I,ii,iv

• I,iii,iv

• I,iv

Which of the following statements are true about the core principles of Agile Manifesto? i.  Welcome changing requirements, even late in the development. ii. Conduct audit regularly to measure effectiveness of testers. iii. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. iv. It's okay to deliver products with minor bugs and unstable functionality.

• I only

• I and iii

• Ii and iii

• Iii only

• Ii and iii

Here is a sample user story: User must be logged into the system to make a purchase. Once the purchase is done, system should send an email to user's email address. The whole purchasing act must be verified by a commercial security software. Users cannot purchase any negative number of item. What is missing from the above sample story? i. non-functional requirements ii. functional requirements.

• I only

• Ii only

• Ii and ii

• None

Retrospective can be used to assess productivity of testers, hence conducting audit to make the team more efficient.

• True

• False

Customer wants to innovate a new technology in a business domain which is not clear. They do not have a concrete idea about their requirements and thus are unable to provide a concrete functionality. The agile team developing the system decided to start the project anyway and clarify customer requirements as they move along. As the total amount of work is unknown, the agile team would like to have information regarding their productivity and ability to deliver, so that they can make accurate estimate as the project progresses. Which fundamental agile concept the software development team is applying?

• Continuous integration

• Working software

• Early and frequent feedback

• Planning

• Retrospective

The following describes a user story in a card: " Customers put their credit card information on the purchase form. The credit card number will be masked with asterisks except for the last 4 digits. For instance, if the the credit number is 334 567 5456, the text box would read *** *** 5456. The team needs 2-3 weeks to develop and test." 2-3 weeks to develop and tests. " According to 3C concept, which part of card is missing from the details?

• Requirements

• Criticality

• Test and development duration

• Acceptance criteria

Which of the following is a good reason that working software is more valuable than comprehensive documentation

• Working software, albeit with reduced functionality, provides an opportunity to get rapid feedback

• It helps the customer to understand their requirements better and gain global vision and insight to the software.

• It helps to innovate in new problem domain where the requirements are not clear.

• All of the above

• None of the above

Which of the following is NOT true about scrum and Kanban ? i.  Scrum does not dictate any software development techniques (e.g. test first development) ii. Both Scrum and Kanban use visualization of active tasks. iii. All the tasks in product backlog are put on the Kanban board and are moved across the board based on their progress.  iv. Kanban board and each of its station can have pre-defined number of task in parallel.

• I,ii,iii

• Iii only

• Ii,iii,iv

• Iii and iv

Here is a sample user story: " when I am logged in to the system, it should be user friendly" Which of the part of INVEST technique is missing from the above statement ? i. Independent ii. Negotiable iii. Valuable iv. Estimable v. Small vi. Testable

• Ii,iv,vi

• I,v,vi

• Ii,iv,v

• Ii

Here is a sample user story: "When I am logged in to check my emails, I want to identify all my new email instantly" What extra information below DO NOT make above user story estimable and/or testable according to INVEST technique ? i. All new email should be bold faced. ii. New email should be at the top of the pile. iii. the font of the email header should look nice. iv. It should not take more than 3 seconds to load the email.

• Iii

• I and ii

• I,ii,iii

• Iii and iv

Which of the following are parts of benefit gained from continuous integration? i. Helps to build large complex systems through good test coverage, which can be obtained by Good automation tests covering as much functionality as possible. ii. Continuous integration helps to detect integration problem early as tests are run as part of continuous integration framework daily. iii. static code analysis, measure and profiling performance and extracting documentation can be done through use of build tools. iv. User stories are verified and broken down into smaller stories for understanding requirements better.

• I,ii,iii,iv

• I,ii,iii

• I,ii,iv

• Ii,ii,iv

Which of the following is NOT a part of twelve principles of Agile Manifesto? i. Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential. ii. the most efficient and effective method of communication is through face-to-face conversation. iii. Making quality everyone's responsibility. iv. Trust motivated individuals and give them the support and environment; build projects around them. v. Promote consistent project momentum

• Iii and v

• I, ii and iii

• I, iv and v

• Iii,iv, and v

Which of the following can be a challenge for implementing continuous integration. i. Team members often appreciate the use of unit tests rather than other tests. ii. Very few members of the team are technically strong in test automation or in continuous integration framework. iii. Continuous integration can be ineffective in case of inadequate test coverage. iv. Continuous integration can only be used with certain type of projects

• I,ii,iii,iv

• I,ii,iii

• Ii,iii,iv

• I,iv

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of early and frequent feedback i. Enhance design and technical excellence ii. enable various use of skills among the team members and leverage upon it. iii. Avoid requirements misunderstanding, which may not have been detected until later in the development. iv. Provide information to the Agile team regarding its productivity and ability to deliver. v. Promoting consistent project momentum

• V only

• I and ii

• I, ii and iv

• Iii, iv, and v.

A Particular user story that was considered very simple turned out to be more complex, requiring more effort to implement and test. Which planning will get affected by this ?

• Iteration planning

• Release Planning

• Both

• None

Which Two of the following can be topics in a retrospective meeting? i. We should have had more people in development team to get the iteration done shortly. ii. Testers and Developers should be conducting more social interaction to improve relationship. iii. The developed product is not user friendly. iv. The software market is getting is competitive

• I,ii,iv

• I and ii

• Ii and iv ii and iv

• Iii and iv

During a retrospective, developers decided on a coding and commenting style for their code to read and understand code better. What could be testers' contribution for test related improvement decisions? i. We should be doing more static analysis and code review, alongside automation testing ii. More and more integration tests should be automated to reduce regression risk. iii. Test cases must clearly state requirements rather than using vague assumption/expectation. iv. Our test strategy and consequently the developed test cases must satisfy acceptance criteria.

• I,iii,iv

• Ii,iii,iv

• I,iv

• I,ii,iii,iv

Which of the following are testers' role during release planning? i. Defining testable user stories, including acceptance criteria ii. Breakdown user stories into tasks (particularly testing tasks) iii. Defining the necessary test levels. iv. Identify functional and non-functional characteristics of the system to be tested. v. Create acceptance criteria for the stories.

• I,ii,iv

• I,ii,iii

• I,ii,iv

• I,iii

Which of the following are testers role during iteration planning? i. Participate in project and quality risk analysis ii. Estimate testing effort for all the testing tasks. iii. Support in creating automation tests for all test levels iv. Planning the testing v. Estimating testing effort associated with user stories.

• Ii,iv,iv

• I,iv

• I,v

• Iii,iv

• Ii,iii