ISTQB ISTQB-Agile-Public Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

You are working in a software development company which, for many years, used a sequential development model and was organized into separate departments for each functional group (e.g. business analysts, developers, testers) located within their own office space. Your organization has recently changed to a SCRUM agile framework. Which of the following is an important organizational and behavioral best practice for a tester in the SCRUM team that should have also been practiced when using the sequential model?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. Cross-functional teamwork means that all team members contribute to testing in various ways. For example, involving people with the test strategy, test planning and execution as well as test reporting.
• B. Co located teamwork means that all team members, including developers and testers, must sit together in the same office, so they can quickly communicate face-to-face.
• C. ( ) Credibility means that the tester must share information with the stakeholders about the test process so that they find the selected test strategy and testing activities trustworthy.
• D. Resilient testing means that the testing process is capable of dealing with rapid changes throughout the development process with test plans being updated during each iteration.

During a retrospective, which of the following items would be the LEAST effective to generate discussions on process improvement?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. The build process was slow and this often caused delays waiting for the build to complete.
• B. One of the testers was regarded as being both disruptive and lazy and did not contribute to team success.
• C. For the last sprint the estimated and actual effort were much higher than the team capacity.
• D. The automation tests failed frequently without any logs to help in debugging the failure reason.

A calculator application is being developed. The third sprint has been planned to add functionality to the calculator to allow scientific calculations. Which TWO examples below represent activities that would likely be managed on an agile task board for the third sprint?
I) A task to design the features planned for the next sprint.
ii) A task to run an acceptance test for a user story.
iii) A task to automate regression tests.
iv) A task to participate in training in preparation for the fourth sprint.
v) A task to produce a daily progress report for the agile team members.
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. i. iv
• B. ii, iii
• C. i. v
• D. iv, v

Which statement about an Agile task board is CORRECT?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. It provides detailed visual representation of the whole team's status.
• B. It is updated once at the end of each iteration.
• C. It is a detailed visual representation of the status of testing.
• D. Only "in progress' tasks are shown on the task board.

Consider an online application that allows registered users to pay the annual car tax based on the vehicle's engine power in kW. Given the following user story:
"As a customer I need the online application to calculate the annual car tax amount that I need to pay for my car":
- If the power of the vehicle is less than 20 kW, then the annual car tax is free
- If the power of the vehicle is more or equal than 20 kW but less or equal than 150 kW, then the annual car tax is 250 Euros
- If the power of the vehicle is more than 150 kW, then the annual car tax is 750 Euros" What is the MOST suitable use of a black-box test design technique for this user story?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. Decision table testing. Test the following conditions:
  Condltions=reglstered user logged In; inserted power of the vehlcle=20kW; Action=Car tax paid
• B. State transition testing. Test the transitions between the following states: logging In. inserting the power of the vehicle, making payment, logging out
• C. Equivalence partitioning. Test the annual car tax value for the following partitions: [power of the vehicle<20 kW; 20 kW ?power of the vehicle?! 50 kW; power of the vehicle>150 kW]
• D. Use case testing.
  Test the following use case (Actor=registered user):
  Pre-condition=registered user logged in
  Scenario=registered user inserts the power of the vehicle, making payment and logs out Post-condition=car tax paid and registered user logged out