QAI CAST case studies
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The Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) is a credential offered by QAI Global Institute, a training and certification organization. It is designed for professionals who are new to software testing or who want to establish a foundational understanding of testing principles and practices. The exam covers five domains: Software Testing Fundamentals, Test Planning and Design, Test Execution and Defect Management, Test Measurement and Metrics, and Testing Tools and Automation Basics. Each domain is weighted equally at 20%, reflecting a balanced emphasis on core testing knowledge. The QAI CAST case studies are 5 cases and about 4,791 words.
1Sign-Off After Three Quiet Days
A 22-person insurance-claims SaaS vendor is two days from a scheduled release. The QA lead has executed 640 of 700 planned test cases, and no new defect has been logged in 72 hours.
664 words, about 3 min2Fourteen Days, Six Modules
A retail loyalty platform has 14 working days until release. Five testers give 70 person-days, but 12 days are already committed to regression on unchanged features and 8 to environment outages and defect retesting, leaving roughly 50 person-days for new functionality.
1,043 words, about 5 min3The Triage That Went Sideways
A team is nine days from release with 27 open defects. At daily triage, four items stall.
1,014 words, about 5 min4The Dashboard Everyone Loves
At a sprint review, the QA manager presents a dashboard: 96.2% test pass rate, 88% requirements coverage, 0.8 defects per test case, and an average defect age of 4 days. The numbers are better than last quarter and the manager is praised.
1,052 words, about 5 min5400 Scripts, 30% Green
A payments team maintains 2,000 test cases, of which 400 are automated Selenium UI scripts. The UI suite takes six hours to run, fails about 30% of runs for reasons unrelated to the change under test, and consumes an estimated 55% of tester time in maintenance.
1,018 words, about 5 min