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Inner Loop & Outer Loop beginner Multiple choice

Two teams own the same test suite. Team A can run the relevant tests locally in 40 seconds. Team B's only way to run them is a 9-minute pipeline. Team B's pull requests are about four times larger and when a test fails they take far longer to work out which change caused it. What is the mechanism connecting feedback time to those two outcomes and which change helps most?

3 min answer inner loopfeedbackbatch sizetesting