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36 questions in Testing & Quality Architecture.

  1. Accessibility Testing intermediate Multiple choice

    A public-sector organisation runs 40 services on a shared component library and must meet WCAG 2.2 AA. An automated scan in each service's pipeline reports no violations, and an external audit finds 60 issues, most of them keyboard traps and focus-order problems in shared components. Where should the verification effort be placed?

    3 min answer accessibilitywcagdesign-systemcomponent-library
  2. Accessibility Testing intermediate

    Review this setup at a ticketing platform in the mould of Ticketmaster. Every design-system component carries unit tests plus an automated accessibility check and all of them pass. The queue page announces "you are number 12000 in line" through a polite live region updated every two seconds. An external audit fails the checkout flow on focus order and on announcements. What would you change, and what would you leave alone?

    3 min answer ticketmasteraccessibility-testinglive-regionsfocus-management
  3. Accessibility Testing intermediate

    What can be tested automatically for accessibility, what cannot, and what is the architectural dimension?

    2 min answer accessibilityautomationdesign-systemstesting
  4. Accessibility Testing intermediate

    Your automated accessibility scan reports zero issues. Legal asks whether the product is compliant. What is your answer?

    2 min answer accessibilitycompliancetesting
  5. Chaos as a Test intermediate

    Leadership wants to start chaos engineering. What is your first experiment, and what must be true before you run anything?

    2 min answer chaosresiliencemethod
  6. Consumer-Driven Contracts intermediate Multiple choice

    A provider service has 40 consumers and a 15-minute pipeline. Contract tests already exist and the provider still breaks consumers in production. Which change actually fixes it?

    2 min answer contract-testingpactdeployment-gateversioning
  7. Contract Testing at Scale intermediate

    Three teams keep breaking each other's services with API changes. Someone proposes contract testing. How do you introduce it without a six-month programme?

    2 min answer contractstestingintegrationadoption
  8. End-to-End Test Economics intermediate

    A team's end-to-end suite takes ninety minutes and fails intermittently. How many end-to-end tests should there be?

    2 min answer chargebeee2eeconomicscoverage
  9. End-to-End Test Economics intermediate

    End-to-end tests fail intermittently and nobody owns them. QA says the developers broke them; developers say the tests are flaky. How do you resolve this?

    2 min answer testingownershipflakinessorganisation
  10. Environment Parity intermediate

    A change passes every test in staging and fails immediately in production. Staging is a faithful copy of the topology. What are the most likely causes, and what would you change?

    2 min answer environmentsparitytesting
  11. Environment Parity intermediate

    Which dimensions of environment parity actually matter, and which are safe to differ?

    1 min answer parityenvironmentsconfigurationdeployment
  12. Flaky Test Management intermediate

    A CI pipeline runs 2,400 tests in 18 minutes and fails about one run in four for reasons unrelated to the change. To stop the interruptions, the team enables automatic retry: any failing test is re-run twice, and the build is green if it passes on any attempt. What happens over the following six months?

    3 min answer flaky-testsciretriessignal-loss