Which of the following is NOT a technical design consideration for a TAA?

A. The number of users for the SUT

B. Availability of interfaces for the SUT to be testable

C. Standards and Legal requirements, e.g data privacy

D. Data used by the SUT, e.g configuration, users

The GUI of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application has been delivered through internet Explorer with proprietary Active X and Java controls. This implementation enables rich client capabilities, but specific commercial automation tools are necessary to automate test cases at GUI of functional test cases. This is to demonstrate whether a small set of the commercial are able to properly recognize actions taken by a tester when interacting with GUI of the CRM application.

Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable in this scenario?

A. Data-driven scripting

B. Keyword-driven scripting

C. Linear scripting

D. Structure scripting

Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?

A. Reusable TAS artefacts can include components (or parts of components) associated with different layers of the TAA

B. To enable reuse of TAS artefacts, a good design for reuse is built into the TAA and to further action are needed during the TAS lifecycle

C. Communications maintenance and improvements for reusing TAS artefacts are modify addressed during the design of the TAA

D. Reusable TAS artifacts associated with the definition layer of the TAA include the adaptors to the SUT components and/or interfaces

Consider a TAS that is going to be deployed for the first time. The TAS requires share resources and run it its own test environment. The infrastructure for the TAS has been created along with maintenance procedures. It is very unlikely the TAS will be required to work in other target Environments. There is a high-risk that when the TAS is deployed in its own test environment, a number of existing application will no longer work because of conflicts with the existing shared resources. Which of the following activities would you expect to be MOST effective at mitigating the risk associated with the first deployment of the TAS?

A. Testing the TAS for application compatibility issues in the target environment

B. Testing the TAS for its ability to be implemented in other target test environments.

C. Testing the TAS for regressions due to optimization that fix non-functional issues.

D. Testing the TAS for ITS ability to run a shared test environment

Consider a TAS deployed into production. The SUT is a web application and the test suite consists of a set of automated regression tests developed via GUI. A keyword-driven framework has been adopted for automating the regression tests. The tests are based on identification at low-levels of the web page components (e.g class indexes, tab sequence indexes and coordinates) in the next planned release the SUT will be subject to significant corrective maintenance (bug-fixes) and evolution (new features) Maintenance costs to update the test scripts should be as low as possible and the scripts must be highly reusable. Which of the following statements is most likely to be TRUE?

A. The keyword-driven framework is not suitable, it would be better to adopt a structured-scripting approach

B. False positive errors are likely to occur when running the automated tests on the new releases without modifying the test

C. The total execution time of the automated regression test suite will decrease for each planned release.

D. The keyword-driven framework introduces a level abstraction that is too high and makes it difficult what really happens

A TAS uses a commercial test automation tool and the default logs generated by the inconsistent formats such as different types of messages (pass/fail steps, screenshots, warnings, etc.) To solve this issue some custom logging functions have been created from the test scripts, making it possible to log the different types of messages with the same format. However, this may cause a problem due to excessive size of the logs which can make it difficult to find the required information. Assume that all the default logs will be disabled when running the automated tests and that some tests will not generate excessively sized logs. Which of the following represents the BEST suggestion for implementing the custom logging functions?

A. Implement the custom logging functions without saving timestamps

B. Implement the custom logging functions to support different levels of tracing

C. Implement the custom logging functions without saving stack traces

D. Implement the custom logging functions to redirect the logs to multiple files

Which of the following attributes should NOT be included in a test execution report associated with a suite of automated tests?

A. Summary of the test execution results

B. System/Application under test and its version

C. Defect clusters identified during test execution

D. Environment in which the tests have been executed

A SUT has an existing automated test suite.

Which of the following statements relating to the introduction of new features in the SUT is TRUE?

A. Automated tests are not affected by the introduction of a new feature and running them against the new SUT is a waste of effort

B. The introduction of a new feature could require updates or additions to the testware components

C. The test automation engineer should work with the business analysts to ensure the new feature is testable

D. It is generally more difficult to automate test cases for a new feature as the development has not yet started

Consider a TAS that exclusively uses the APIs of a SUT. To make this work, significant changes have been required to the SUT by adding a set of dedicated test interfaces to the APIs. All the automated tests will use these test interfaces when interacting with the SUT. Assume that you are currently verifying the correctness of the automated test environment and test tool setup. Which of the following would you expect to be the MOST specific risk associated with this scenario?

A. The connectivity from the TAS to the dedicated test interfaces will not work

B. The process of configuring the TAS will be error-phone due to manual intervention

C. The automated test cases will not contain the expected result

D. False alarms, that are unlikely to occur in the real world, will be observed during testing

Assume that you are the TAE responsible for the correct functioning of a TAS, deployed in a test environment that consists of a few machines running the same version of the operating system. The TAS has been working and stable since its deployment, it has been used to run an automated test suite consisting of many similar automated test. The infrastructure team is planning to update the operating system on these machines by installing a new the service pack for security reasons. Since the vendor of the operating system assurance full backward compatibility, the infrastructure team assurance that there will be no impacts on the functioning of the TAS. What is the BEST approach to confirm the correct functioning of the TAS in this scenario?

A. Verify the behavior of the automated tests by running a small tests, then gradually run the remaining tests to confirm the correct functioning of the whole automated test suite.

B. Make sure that the infrastructure team has completed installing the service pack on the machines where SUT is running, then run the whole automated test suite to verify its behavior

C. Verify the behavior of the whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests

D. Do not run any tests because you can immediately confirm the correct functioning of the automated test suite