ISTQB Agile Public Sector Sample Questions:

1. Which of the following is the BEST way for a test team to keep its independence when working in an Agile development environment?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A) Share the Test Strategy with the Agile development team, but not the details of the Test Cases.
B) Co-locate only some of the testers with the Agile development team, while the rest of the testers are in a different location.
C) Assign testers to be members of the Agile team, but ensure the testers report to a different manager than the developers.
D) Locate the team that develops the test automation framework in a different location to the Agile development team.

2. Your agile team is using the Testing Quadrants to ensure that all important test levels and test types are covered in the test plan.
In relation to Quadrant 3 - business facing and product critique, what should be considered for the plan?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A) Prototype testing
B) Exploratory Testing
C) Performance Testing
D) Functional Testing

3. You are working in a team preparing a bank loan application. Your task is the preparation of acceptance tests for the following user story:
"IF a customer needs a loan for less than 50,000 Euros and they have made repayments regularly (without any delay) and the customers monthly income is more than 3000 Euros for the last year, THEN the bank will accept the loan request; in other cases the bank will not accept the request. A customer assistant is responsible for preparing data for approval but the approval is done by the bank manager." Which of the following test cases can be treated as acceptance test criteria for the above user story?
i) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer account for the last year.
ii) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer debts and repayments.
iii) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and change my password.
iv) As a bank manager I can log in to the system and receive the information of all requests waiting for approval.
v) As a bank manager I can log in to the system and decide whether to approve a loan for a customer.
vl) As a bank manager I can log in to the system within 10 seconds.
SELECT ONE OPTION

A) Acceptance test criteria are i, ii, iii and vi
B) Acceptance test criteria are i, ii, iv and v
C) Acceptance test criteria are ii, iv, v and vi
D) Acceptance test criteria are i, iii, iv and v

4. You are working on an Agile project and have been asked to implement exploratory testing for the current sprint. Which one of the following is a correct approach to adopt?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A) Allocate independent testers to design exploratory tests using test charters in time boxed sessions. Plan to run all sessions in parallel with each session lasting more than 5 hours.
B) Ask experienced testers to prepare test charters for time boxed sessions lasting no more than 2 hours. Tests should be designed and executed within each session using heuristics, creativity and intuition.
C) Use testers who have not been involved in the sprint to write new test cases from the user stories. These test cases are then executed in a time boxed session for the sprint.
D) Ask experienced testers to try and find new defects by using the system without the constraint of documentation and tools.

5. Iteration planning for Sprint 5 of your current project is complete. The plan for the sprint is to increase performance of the system, which of the following acceptance criteria would you expect for Sprint 5?
i) User access for all roles has been validated.
ii) A static analysis tool has been executed for all code.
iii) 100% of the existing regression test suite has passed.
Iv) System is responding In less than 3 seconds, 90% of the time.
v) A new version of Internet Explorer has been included.
SELECT ONE OPTION

A) iii, iv
B) i, iii
C) iv, v
D) ii, v

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