CT-TAE Free Practice Test

A major component of your organisation's Test Automaton Solution (TAS) is a popular open-source third-party capture-replay tool for automated functional testing.
Which two of the following must the Test Automation Engineer (TAE) ensure happens for this TAS?
a) The third party tool is placed under configuration management control.
b) The annual support and maintenance costs are agreed with the tool's vendor.
c) It is Important to obtain information about updates and new versions of the tool so that the third party tool is kept up to date.
d) Ensure that the TAS test scripts are integrated into the tool's framework.
e) Ensure that no changes are made to the tool, because modifications are not allowed for third party products.

1. A. a and b
2. B. c and d
3. C. a and c
4. D. d and e

Correct Answer: A

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?

1. A. The keyword-driven framework is not suitable, it would be better to adopt a structured- scripting approach
2. B. False positive errors are likely to occur when running the automated tests on the new releases without modifying the test
3. C. The total execution time of the automated regression test suite will decrease for each planned release.
4. D. The keyword-driven framework introduces a level abstraction that is too high and makes it difficult what really happens

Correct Answer: A

You have been asked to automate a set of functional tests at system Test level via the CLI
of the SUT for the first release of a software system. The automated tests will be delivered to the learn in change of maintenance testing, who will use them for part of the regression testing. They have the following requirements.
* 1. The automated tests must be as fast and cheap to maintain as possible
* 2. The cost of adding new automated tests must be as low as possible
* 3. The automated tests must have a high level of independence from the tool itself
Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable?

1. A. Data-driven scripting
2. B. Keyword-driven scripting
3. C. Linear scripting
4. D. Structure scripting

Correct Answer: D

You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to increase tool use by the one project at a time. During this rollout some test processes will be changed slightly to gain additional benefits from using the tool.
In the pilot project, a small set of manual tests were automated for the first time. You are currently monitoring the test automation efficiency and this reveals that the automation regime for the tests is not yet mature.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?

1. A. The approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment
2. B. The pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered
3. C. The target defined for the project was inappropriate, because the automation regime for the automated tests at the end of the pilot is not yet mature.
4. D. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.

Correct Answer: A

New features have been added for the current release of a SUT.
Which action would NOT be appropriate for the TAE to perform when evaluating the impact on the TAS?

1. A. Gather feedback from the Business Analysts to determine if the current TAS will meet the needs of the new features.
2. B. Review existing keywords to see if they need to be modified.
3. C. Run existing automated tests against the updated SUT to verify and record any changesto their correct operation.
4. D. Evaluate compatibility with existing test tools and, where necessary, identify alternative solutions.

Correct Answer: A