Unit 3: Test Administration - Practice Quiz

1 What is the main goal of test planning?

2 Which activity is supported by a test plan?

3 Why are testing resources identified during test planning?

4 Which item is commonly included in a test plan?

5 What does a test schedule describe?

6 Which topic identifies conditions for starting or stopping testing?

7 What is a primary goal of test case planning?

8 Why should test cases be linked to requirements?

9 What does test case planning help testers identify?

10 What is a test case?

11 Which information is normally defined before executing a test case?

12 What is a test scenario?

13 Why are test cases organized into groups?

14 Which status usually indicates that a test case produced the expected result?

15 What does a failed test case indicate?

16 What should a well-designed test case be?

17 Which test design technique checks values at the edges of an input range?

18 Which item is commonly included in a manual test case?

19 What should a tester record after executing a manual test case?

20 Which tool is commonly used as a Java unit testing framework?

21 A team has limited time before release and cannot execute every planned test. How should test planning address this constraint?

22 During planning, the team discovers that the performance environment will not be available until two days before release. What is the most appropriate planning response?

23 Which planning item defines the conditions that must be satisfied before system testing can begin?

24 A test plan states that testing will end when 95% of critical test cases pass and no open critical defects remain. This statement primarily defines:

25 A payment feature depends on an external banking sandbox that is occasionally unavailable. In which part of the test plan should this concern and its mitigation be recorded?

26 A requirements review finds that one security requirement has no associated test case. Which test case planning goal has not been achieved?

27 Three testers independently create nearly identical login tests. Which planning action would best reduce this duplication?

28 A requirement states that an account is locked after five consecutive failed login attempts. What should the team do first when planning test cases for this behavior?

29 A feature is still changing frequently, but its business rules are stable. Which approach is most suitable during initial test case planning?

30 A requirement changes after several related test cases have already been created. Which mechanism best helps the team identify the affected cases?

31 Test case TC-104 fails because the test environment is offline, so the application behavior cannot be evaluated. Which execution status is most appropriate?

32 A test case is updated after a workflow change, but previous execution results must remain auditable. What is the best tracking practice?

33 A quantity field accepts integer values from 1 through 100 inclusive. Which set best applies boundary value analysis?

34 A shipping form accepts countries from a supported list and rejects all other country values. Which test set best represents equivalence partitioning?

35 A discount is applied only when a customer is a premium member and the cart total is at least $100. Which technique is most useful for covering combinations of these conditions?

36 Which expected result is most suitable for a manual test that submits a valid registration form?

37 A manual test passes when executed alone but fails when run after another test because account data remains modified. How should the case be improved?

38 A JUnit test needs a fresh WebDriver instance before every test method. Which JUnit 5 annotation should be used on the setup method?

39 A Selenium test fails intermittently because it checks a button before an asynchronous request enables it. What is the best improvement?

40 Several Selenium tests repeat the same locators and interaction methods for the login page. Which Java test design change best improves maintainability?

41 A payment platform must release in six weeks, but complete testing would require ten weeks. Failure impact varies sharply across features. Which planning decision best fulfills the primary goal of test planning?

42 Midway through a project, the team discovers that the planned performance environment will not be available before release. Which response best preserves the intent of the test plan?

43 A test plan defines scope, environments, schedules, roles, and entry criteria, but stakeholders still disagree about whether testing is complete. Which missing planning topic most directly caused the disagreement?

44 A system depends on a third-party identity provider whose test service is available only two hours per day and occasionally returns stale data. Where should this constraint primarily be addressed in the test plan?

45 A project has 800 requirements and limited time. The plan proposes testing only requirements labeled critical, but labels were assigned without a documented method. What is the most important addition to the plan?

46 A suite achieves 100% requirements traceability, yet a production failure occurs because two individually tested requirements interact incorrectly. Which test case planning goal was inadequately addressed?

47 A regression suite contains many overlapping cases and takes 18 hours, while the release pipeline permits 4 hours. Which test case planning objective best guides rational reduction?

48 A requirement states: "The search response should be fast for normal traffic." What should occur before detailed test cases are written?

49 A feature has stable business rules but an unstable user interface that changes weekly. Which test case planning approach best limits rework while retaining coverage?

50 A test case validates requirements R1 and R2. R2 changes, the case is revised, and the old release must remain auditable. Which tracking model best supports impact analysis and historical evidence?

51 A dashboard reports 95% test execution, but 30% of executed tests are blocked and counted as completed. Which metric representation is most accurate?

52 Two test cases cover the same requirement and inputs, but one runs on PostgreSQL and the other on Oracle. Which organization strategy best avoids false duplication while preserving traceability?

53 An input accepts integers from 10 through 99 inclusive. Values outside this range are rejected. Which set provides complete robust boundary value coverage for this single input?

54 An account is locked after three consecutive failed logins. A successful login resets the failure count, and a locked account rejects all attempts. Which design technique most directly derives cases for this behavior?

55 A discount applies when a customer is premium and the cart exceeds $100, except when an excluded product is present. Which technique best exposes missing combinations and contradictory rules?

56 A manual test step says, "Verify that the report looks correct." Which revision makes the case most reproducible without overprescribing irrelevant presentation details?

57 A destructive manual test modifies shared customer records, causing later tests to fail unpredictably. Which case design change best addresses the underlying problem?

58 A JUnit 5 test must verify that withdraw(150) throws InsufficientFundsException and that the balance remains unchanged. Which structure is most appropriate?

59 A Selenium Java suite frequently fails because it uses Thread.sleep(5000) before checking a dynamically loaded button. Which replacement most directly improves reliability and execution time?

60 A Java test suite shares one mutable WebDriver instance across parallel JUnit executions. Failures show tests navigating each other's browser sessions. Which redesign best preserves parallelism?