Assess your understanding of core concepts, features, and workflows in Azure DevOps Test Plans, including test suites, executions, parameters, and bug tracking. This quiz is designed to reinforce best practices and key skills for managing and executing quality assurance efforts in the cloud.
Which type of test suite allows you to organize test cases based on a specific requirement in Azure DevOps Test Plans?
Explanation: A requirement-based test suite groups test cases according to a single requirement, helping trace coverage effectively. Static test suites are manually managed and unrelated to requirements. Query-based and dynamic test suites rely on work item queries, not direct requirement linkage. Thus, the requirement-based suite is the correct option.
In the context of Azure DevOps Test Plans, what is a test plan primarily used for?
Explanation: A test plan is intended for organizing test suites and managing their execution, ensuring systematic coverage of testing. It does not involve storing builds, creating mockups, or tracking budgets. The other options do not relate to test planning in the platform.
When executing a manual test in Azure DevOps Test Plans, what action should a tester take after completing each test step?
Explanation: After completing a test step, a tester must mark it as passed or failed to record the result for each step. Sending reports or archiving plans is not part of the step-by-step execution. Creating pipelines is irrelevant during manual test execution.
How do shared parameters enhance manual testing within Azure DevOps Test Plans?
Explanation: Shared parameters let testers reuse consistent data sets across different test cases, streamlining test design. They do not generate code, set schedules, or affect permissions. The incorrect options misrepresent their primary benefit.
Which feature helps users to review the outcome of all tests executed in a specific iteration?
Explanation: The test run summary provides an overview of results for tests executed during an iteration. Release pipelines, work item backlogs, and sprint calendars don't provide this specific testing summary, making them less suitable answers.
While executing a test case, what is the benefit of creating a bug directly from the test runner?
Explanation: Creating a bug from the test runner attaches important context, such as failed steps and environment data. The action does not speed up feature delivery, trigger deployments, or remove test cases; those distractors are unrelated to bug creation.
Which of the following methods is NOT available for executing test cases in Azure DevOps Test Plans?
Explanation: Test cases can be executed manually, automated, or explored interactively; hardware simulation is not a supported execution method in Test Plans. The first three options reflect the standard ways to execute tests.
If you want to create a new test case similar to an existing one, which feature in Azure DevOps Test Plans helps you save time?
Explanation: Cloning a test case allows you to duplicate an existing test case, preserving its fields and steps. Importing builds, rolling back pipelines, and locking are not related to duplicating test cases, so these options are incorrect.
Why is assigning test cases to specific testers important in a test plan?
Explanation: Assigning test cases ensures that each test has someone responsible for its completion, helping manage workload. It does not impact storage, compilation, or bug resolution, which are unrelated to test assignment.
What does the 'Active' status of a test case indicate?
Explanation: An 'Active' status means the test case is ready to be run. It does not indicate deletion, ongoing execution, or archival, which are denoted by other statuses or processes in the system.
What purpose does attaching a screenshot to a test execution serve?
Explanation: Screenshots help validate outcomes and clarify issues encountered, serving as documentation. They do not affect priority, permissions, or script generation, so those options are incorrect.
Which role is typically needed to create and manage test plans in Azure DevOps Test Plans?
Explanation: The 'Test Manager' role includes permissions to create and manage test plans. Stakeholders and viewers generally have limited access while interns may not be assigned specific permissions.
How does linking test cases to requirements improve the testing process?
Explanation: Linking provides traceability, confirming that all requirements are tested. Doubling suite size, encryption, or hiding runs are not related to traceability benefits.
Which bulk operation can be performed directly on multiple test cases within a suite?
Explanation: You can assign several test cases to a tester at once. The other actions are not related to bulk test case operations and therefore are not options.
How can automated test runs be scheduled for regular execution?
Explanation: Scheduling is managed through build or release pipelines. Editing titles, changing themes, or commenting has no impact on test run automation.
What is the main advantage of shared steps in test case design?
Explanation: Shared steps make test case design efficient by allowing reuse. Other options either misrepresent or have no connection to test step reuse.
During an exploratory test session, what is commonly captured to support findings?
Explanation: Screenshots and notes document findings and help in analyzing issues. Compiled code, invoices, and password lists are not appropriate to capture during testing.
What does the 'Priority' field in a test case influence?
Explanation: Setting priority helps choose which tests to run first or focus on. It does not change language, hardware, or file size.
What distinguishes a 'Static test suite' from a 'Query-based test suite'?
Explanation: Static suites rely on manual addition of test cases; query-based ones use queries to include tests dynamically. Performance analytics, test automation restrictions, and password enforcement are not characteristics of these suite types.
What is a recommended first step after a test case fails during execution?
Explanation: Analyzing results helps identify the cause of failure. Deletion, merging code, or storage requests do not address understanding the failure and are incorrect steps.
Besides 'Passed' and 'Failed', which other outcome can test steps in Azure DevOps Test Plans have?
Explanation: A step can be marked 'Blocked' if it cannot be completed. The other options do not represent supported outcome statuses for test steps.