SAFe® 5 DevOps Certification Agile Testing and Quality 3

Question 1

What does SAFe mean by the principle of 'built-in quality'?

Accepted Answer

Quality practices are embedded throughout every stage of development and delivery

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Quality is checked only at the end of each sprint during review

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Quality assurance is exclusively the QA department's responsibility

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Quality gates are added only at the final production deployment stage

Question 2

In SAFe DevOps, what is the recommended approach to test automation within the CI/CD pipeline?

Accepted Answer

Automate tests at all levels and trigger the full suite on every code commit

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Run automated tests only on weekends to avoid slowing down weekday development

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Rely exclusively on manual testing for all business-critical application paths

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Run automated tests only immediately before a production release event

Question 3

What is the 'Definition of Done' (DoD) in SAFe, and how does it directly relate to quality?

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A quality checklist ensuring all required criteria are met before declaring any work complete

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A prioritized list of features targeted for delivery in a sprint

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A document specifying which automated tests are acceptable to skip

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A sprint planning artifact listing all stories accepted by the Product Owner

Question 4

Which SAFe built-in quality practice involves two developers working together simultaneously on the same code to reduce defects?

Accepted Answer

Pair programming

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Mob programming sessions

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Code freeze periods

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Long-lived feature branching

Question 5

In SAFe DevOps, what is the function of a 'quality gate' in the CI/CD pipeline?

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To automatically halt the pipeline if defined quality criteria such as coverage or static analysis fail

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To introduce a mandatory pause for manual stakeholder approval

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To generate detailed quality reports for executive stakeholders

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To approve incoming feature requests from external customers

Question 6

What does SAFe recommend as the correct response when a quality gate fails in the CI/CD pipeline?

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Immediately stop and fix the quality issue before allowing the pipeline to continue

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Bypass the gate with an override flag to meet the release deadline

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Archive the failed build and start a fresh pipeline run from scratch

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Escalate to the Release Train Engineer for a formal waiver approval