Question 820
A software testing team encounters the following project situation: An integration project discovers that the only test database administrator is leaving, but the planning team describes this as a direct customer data-corruption defect. Which repeatable testing practice most directly reduces recurrence of this problem?
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This safeguard specifically targets the contributing cause: Review risk categories and dependencies during staffing changes. It addresses the principle (Resource risks affect project execution, whereas product risks concern the delivered system's qualities.) and can be assessed by: Risk mitigation includes cross-training without conflating it with functional data tests.
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This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 5.2): A travel booking release has a high-risk external airline API dependency, but testers execute all lower-level local unit checks and claim the dependency risk is closed. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Review risk categories and dependencies during staffing changes.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 5.2): A manager insists all risks with the same likelihood score deserve identical test effort even though one affects only a minor label and the other affects patient safety. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Review risk categories and dependencies during staffing changes.
This preventive step mitigates a different project risk (syllabus section 5.1): A scrum team estimates one very complex integration story using only development hours, then realizes testing and third-party environment setup consume most of the iteration. The targeted safeguard for the current case is: Review risk categories and dependencies during staffing changes.