Question 160
In a fictional application-delivery project, the team reports: A team reports 90% coverage by counting its automated scripts but cannot relate the count to requirements, risks or code structure. Which repeatable testing practice most directly reduces recurrence of this problem?
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This safeguard specifically targets the contributing cause: State the coverage criterion and denominator in release dashboards. It addresses the principle (Coverage is a proportion of identified items exercised, not simply a total number of scripts.) and can be assessed by: The report states which named requirements or branches are covered and which are not.
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This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.4): A team calls a requirement review, test-data creation, test-run analysis and defect reporting one activity named 'execution', confusing ownership and planning. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: State the coverage criterion and denominator in release dashboards.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.4): A team executes a price-change test but cannot tell which requirement or risk the test covers, so auditors cannot verify why it exists. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: State the coverage criterion and denominator in release dashboards.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.1): A billing team treats checking an invoice against its written pricing rules as debugging, and asks testers to locate the faulty line of code before reporting any mismatch. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: State the coverage criterion and denominator in release dashboards.