CTAL TA Sample Exam critical issues

[danopolan]

We did not check Sample Exam for CTAL TA for some time and found several major issues in formatting.

1. ONE option is indicated instead of TWO. This was changes in Sample Exam: Select TWO options in case of 5 option answers. #29 but doesn't work. Affected are questions 13 and 26.
   

2. Questions text overlap with a footer for questions 14 and 20. This is cause by not splitting questions across more pages, but we could lower top margin so the question starts higher and make tables bit smaller.
   

3. Answers explanation is a mess
   

[Witiko]

I assume this is related to https://github.com/istqborg/istqb-ctal-ta/pull/4.

1. ONE option is indicated instead of TWO. Affected are questions 13 and 26.

This is due to an error in the input data, please see my review comments in https://github.com/istqborg/istqb-ctal-ta/pull/4:

• https://github.com/istqborg/istqb-ctal-ta/pull/4/files#r1632221807
• https://github.com/istqborg/istqb-ctal-ta/pull/4/files#r1632221848

As I offered in #29 (comment), I can strengthen the validation by requiring two correct answers for questions with five possible answers. This would allow us to catch such errors early. Furthermore, we may want to make the template smarter, so that it can understand both correct: [a, b] and correct: a, b even though the former is a YAML list and the latter is just text.

2. Questions text overlap with a footer for questions 14 and 20. This is cause by not splitting questions across more pages, but we could lower top margin so the question starts higher and make tables bit smaller.

We anticipated this issue in #38 (comment) and already discussed a possible solution. I will take a look at implementing it on Monday at the latest.

3. Answers explanation is a mess.

The results of CI for commit istqborg/istqb_product_template@adf5fc2 from May 3 contain answer explanations that look OK:

By contrast, the results of CI for commit istqborg/istqb_product_template@c09debd from today contain no questions or answers:

This indicates that there is a larger issue or possibly several issues at play, not just an issue with typesetting answer explanations.

Regardless, the issues seem to be regressions that have occurred in this repository since or after May 3, i.e. between commits 73d6e91 and 4793179. I will take a look at finding the regressions and fixing them on Monday.

[Witiko]

This indicates that there is a larger issue or possibly several issues at play, not just an issue with typesetting answer explanations.

After applying the fix from commit ea5fee1 in PR #64, the results of CI for commit istqborg/istqb_product_template@c09debd from today look as follows:

This reproduces the issue from point 3 in the original post.