BCS TAE Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

A defect in a SUT has been resolved and validated by an automated defect re-test in the current release of the software. This retest has now been added to the automated regression test suite.

Which statement BEST describes a reason why this defect could re-occur in future releases?

AAutomated defect confirmation testing is not effective at confirming that the resolved defect will continue to work in future releases

BThe configuration management process does not properly control the synchronization between software archives

CThe automated regression test suite is not run consistently for future releases.

DThe automated regression test suite has a narrower scope of functionality

Answer : B

Question 2

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?

ATesting the TAS for application compatibility issues in the target environment

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

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

DTesting the TAS for ITS ability to run a shared test environment

Answer : B

Question 3

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?

AVerify 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.

BMake 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

CVerify the behavior of the whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests

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

Answer : A

Question 4

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 5

Consider the following example of TAS metrics.

Time to execute automated tests

Speed and efficiency of TAS components

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

AA and B are both internal TAS metrics

BA is an internal TAS metric and B is an external TAS metric

CA and b are both external TAS metric

DA is and external TAS metric and b is an internal TAS metric

Answer : D

Question 6

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed at automatically and executing test cases based on a use-case

Modeling approaching that uses UML as a modeling language. All the interaction between TAS and SUT will only be at the API and GUI level.

Which of the following components of the gTAA would you EXCLUDE from the TAS?

AThe test reporting component of the test execution layer.

BThe Test execution component of the test generation layer

CThe test execution (test engine of the test execution layer

DThe Command Line Interface (CLI) component of the test adaptation layer

Answer : D

Question 7

Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?

AWhen automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests must always be the same as the corresponding manual tests

BWhen automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly

CWhen automating regression tests, the initialization steps set the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible

DWhen automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation

Answer : D

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