CTAL-TAE Online Practice Questions and Answers

You have been asked to determine a TAS for a new release of a SUT, test should be automated wherever.

The new release will consist of 5 new interfaces and an amendment to 3 existing interfaces. The new and

amended interface will be deliver incrementally in 3 sprints, each lasting 2 weeks.

What would be the BEST Test Automation Solution (TAS) design in this scenario?

A. Automate tests at both Component and System Level. Only do this automation once every interface has been fully developed or amended and manual testing has completed successfully.

B. Automate tests at one level only, System level. Use only the newly developed interfaces and do not create any customized interfaces/test hooks.

C. Automate the tests at two levels, Component and System level. Create customized hooks at Component level for interface not yet developed or amended. Only use the newly developed or amended interfaces to test at System level.

D. Automate a test at once level, component level, Create customized interface/test hooks for this level where the interface has not yet been developed or amended.

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?

A. Verify the testability support with the providers of the third party components

B. Verify whether the GUI identification depends on the browser.

C. Adopt an approach that uses the coordinates of the GUI elements instead

D. Verify whether naming standards for variables and have been defined for the current automation solution

You are currently designing the TAA of a TAS. You have been asked to adopt an approach for

automatically generating and executing test cases from a model that defines the SUT. The SUT is a state-

based and event-driven that is described by a finite-state machine and exposes its functionality via an API.

The behavior of the SUT depends on hardware and communication links that can be unreliable.

Which of the following aspects is MOST important when designing the TAA in this scenario?

A. Looking for tools that allows direct denoting of exceptions and actions depending on the SUT events.

B. Adopting a test definition strategy based on classification tree coverage for the test definition layer.

C. Looking for tools that allow performing setup and teardown of the test suites and the SUT.

D. Adopting a test definition strategy based on use case/exception case coverage for the definition layer.

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?

A. The approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment

B. The pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered

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.

D. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.

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

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?

A. A and B are both internal TAS metrics

B. A is an internal TAS metric and B is an external TAS metric

C. A and b are both external TAS metric

D. A is and external TAS metric and b is an internal TAS metric

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 statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?

A. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests must always be the same as the corresponding manual tests

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

C. When automating regression tests, the initialization steps set the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible

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

Consider a SUT that small run on multiple platform during the execution of automated test runs. In each test run an automated test suite needs to be executed, with the same version of the TAF, against the same version of the SUT of each platform. Each platform shall have its own dedicated test environment. Your goal is to implement a process as automated as possible ( i.e with minimal manual intervention) that allows implementing a consistent setup of the TAS across the multiple test environments. Which two of the following aspects are MOST relevant for achieving your goal in this scenario?

A) The configuration of the TAS uses automated installation scripts B) The TAF saves the logs needed to debug errors in XML format C) Features of the TAF not used by the automated tests have been tested D) All the automated test cases contain the expected results E) The TAS components are under configuration management

A. A and E

B. B and C

C. B and D

D. A and D

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?

A. Implementing keywords with higher level of granularity

B. Improving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability

C. Adopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests

D. Implementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level