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Question 1

Which of the following BEST describes why it is important to separate test definition from test execution in a TAA?

AIt allows developing steps of the test process without being closely tied to the SUT interface.

BIt allow choosing different paradigms (e.g event-driven) for the interaction TAS and SUT

CIt allows specify test cases without being closely tied to the tool to run them against the SUT

DIt allows testers to find more defects on the SUT

Answer : C

Question 2

Which of the following statements does NOT describe good practice for maintaining the TAS?

AThe TAS must run in the development environment because development and programming knowledge are required for its maintainability

BThe TAS must be under configuration management, along with the test suite, the testware artefacts and the test environment in which it runs

CThe TAS must separate the test scripts from the environment in which it runs and from the associated harnesses and artefacts

DThe TAS must consist of components that can be easily replaced without affecting the overall behavior of the TAS itself

Answer : A

Question 3

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

AThe number of users for the SUT

BAvailability of interfaces for the SUT to be testable

CStandards and Legal requirements, e.g data privacy

DData used by the SUT, e.g configuration, users

Answer : A

Question 4

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?

AThe connectivity from the TAS to the dedicated test interfaces will not work

BThe process of configuring the TAS will be error-phone due to manual intervention

CThe automated test cases will not contain the expected result

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

Answer : D

Question 5

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?

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

BThe introduction of a new feature could require updates or additions to the testware components

CThe test automation engineer should work with the business analysts to ensure the new feature is testable

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

Answer : B

Question 6

As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within your organization. The projects require that tool to work effectively and efficiently with SUT's in distributed environments. The test automated tool also needs to interface with other existing test tools (test management tool and defect tracking tool.) The existing test tools subject to planned updates and their interface to the test automated tool may not work property after these updates.

Which of the following are the two LEAST important concerns related to the evaluation of the test automation in this scenario?

Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in different environments?

Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme that allows accessing different sets?

Does the test automation tool have a large feature set, but only part of the features will be sets?

Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?

Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?

AA and C

BA and E

CB and E

DC and D

Answer : C

Question 7

Consider a TAS that uses a keyword-driven framework. The SUT is a web application and there is a large set of keywords available for writing the automated tests that relate to highly specific user actions linked directly to the GUI of the SUT. The automated test written with the keywords are statically analyzed by a custom tool which highlight's repeated instances of identical sequence of keywords. The waiting mechanism implemented by the TAS for a webpage load is based on a synchronous sampling within a given timeout. The TAS allows checking a webpage load every seconds until a timeout value

AChanging the scripting approach to data-driven scripting

BImplementing keywords with a higher level of granularity

CChanging the wait mechanism to explicit hard-coded waits

DEstablishing an error recovery process for TAS and SUT

Answer : C

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