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Question 1

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 2

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed specifically at automating a suit of existing manual test cases for standalone desktop applications. All the interfaces between the TAS and SUT will be from the CUI of the application.

Which of the following layers of the gTAA should you focus on for the TAS?

AThe test Generation layer

BThe Test Definition layer

CThe Test Adaption layer

DThe Test Execution layer

Answer : A

Question 3

You are working on a TAS for standalone application. The automated tests are developed based on a automation framework that allows interaction with GUI elements using on object orientated API. The GUI elements include menus, buttons, radio buttons, text toolbars and their properties.

Whilst automating a test, you have discovered that the GUI elements of some third party components are not identifiable by the automated tool you are using.

Which of the following is the FIRST step that you take to investigate this issue?

AVerify the testability support with the providers of the third party components

BVerify whether the GUI identification depends on the browser.

CAdopt an approach that uses the coordinates of the GUI elements instead

DVerify whether naming standards for variables and have been defined for the current automation solution

Answer : C

Question 4

A regression test suite consist of 500 test cases which are all executed manually. The business case for a pilot project is based on the adoption of test automation using a commercial tool that will reduce the execution time by a factor of 90% for 100% of the tests in the regression test suite. The pilot project lasted one month ( as planned) and you are currently its results. At the end of the pilot project, 40% of the regression tests have been automated and their execution time has been reduce by 60%.

Which of the following statements is TRUE in this scenario?

AThe duration of the pilot project was too short --it should last unit the success factors are achieved

BThe target defined for the business case is too accurate --it should not be measureable

CThe project selected for the pilot is too critical --if should not be too critical or too trivial

DThe target defined for the business case seems difficult to hit -- it should be realistic

Answer : D

Question 5

Consider A TAS for testing a desktop application via its GUI. All the test cases of the automated test suite contain the same identical sequences of steps at the beginning (to create the necessary objects when doing a preliminary configuration of the test environment and at the end (to remove everything created --specifically for the test itself during the preliminary configuration of the test environment). All automated test cases use the same set of assertion functions from a shared library, for verifying the values in the GUI fields ( e.g text boxes).

What is the BEST recommendation for improving the TAS?

AImplementing keywords with higher level of granularity

BImproving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability

CAdopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests

DImplementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level

Answer : A

Question 6

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 : B

Question 7

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 : D

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