Question 60
A test analyst investigates the following quality concern: A booking team assumes testers own all quality assurance because they are the only people executing checks, so design reviews and coding standards are dropped. Which repeatable testing practice most directly reduces recurrence of this problem?
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This safeguard specifically targets the contributing cause: Assign prevention and assurance responsibilities across engineering, product, and test roles. It addresses the principle (Quality assurance is process-oriented and broader than testing; testing primarily evaluates products and work products.) and can be assessed by: Teams enforce coding standards and peer review, and tests provide objective product evidence.
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This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.2): A weather-app team measures software quality solely by the total defects found, overlooking a slow startup that users abandon. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Assign prevention and assurance responsibilities across engineering, product, and test roles.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.2): A large website reports only escaped defects in customer support but never analyzes why the same category returns across releases. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Assign prevention and assurance responsibilities across engineering, product, and test roles.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 1.3): An online examination team runs the identical dataset every sprint and sees fewer new findings, treating this as proof the application has become defect free. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Assign prevention and assurance responsibilities across engineering, product, and test roles.