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102 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 beginner Multiple choice

    A team adds an automated accessibility linter to CI. It reports zero violations on every page. Which statement best describes what they now know?

    3 min answer accessibilitywcagautomated testingbeginner
  3. 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
  4. Accessibility Testing intermediate

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

    2 min answer accessibilityautomationdesign-systemstesting
  5. 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
  6. Chaos as a Test advanced

    A marketplace that runs an annual festive-season sale in the mould of Flipkart's Big Billion Days does chaos engineering twice a year as a staffed game day. Leadership wants it continuous, as a pipeline stage. Sequence the migration, and say where it can go wrong.

    4 min answer chaos engineeringgame dayspipelineresilience testing
  7. Chaos as a Test advanced

    How does chaos engineering differ from a resilience test, and how should it be integrated into delivery?

    2 min answer chaosresilience-testingautomationhypothesis
  8. 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
  9. Chaos as a Test advanced

    Walk me through this one. You run the resilience engineering team at a global edge network in the mould of Akamai. Two years in you have 400 automated fault-injection experiments running weekly, no customer-visible incident has ever been caused by one, and the last genuinely new finding was six months ago. Your VP asks whether to keep funding the team. What do you say?

    3 min answer akamaichaos-engineeringexperiment-yieldprogramme-funding
  10. Chaos as a Test advanced

    Your SRE team wants to run fault injection in production. Leadership is nervous. How do you make the case and what do you insist on?

    2 min answer chaosresiliencetestingrisk
  11. Consumer-Driven Contracts advanced

    A consumer's contract file is regenerated from its own test suite on every build and published to the broker. A developer on the consumer team deletes an obsolete test that happened to be the only one exercising the refund_reason field. Nobody notices at the time. What happens over the following two months?

    3 min answer consumer-driven-contractspactcontract-coveragesilent-failure
  12. 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