ISTQB-TAE Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following describes how a test execution report is likely to be used?

A. To understand which test step caused the failure in a test case

B. To identify problematic areas of the SUT by keeping a history showing which test cases fail the most

C. To measure coverage of the test basis by a test suite

D. To record how a test case failure has been fixed

What are the four horizontal layers of the gTAA?

A. Test adaptation, test execution, test design, test definition

B. Test generation, test execution, test definition, test APIs

C. Test generation, test definition, test execution, test adaptation

D. Test definition, test execution, test reporting, test adaptation

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?

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

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

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

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

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

A. A and C

B. A and E

C. B and E

D. C and D

Designing the System Under Test (SUT) for testability is important for a good test automation approach and can also benefit manual test execution. Which of the following is NOT a consideration when designing for testability?

A. Observability: The SUT needs to provide interface that give insight into the system.

B. Re-useability: The code written for the SUT must be re-useable for other similar system.

C. Clearly defined architecture: The SUT Architecture needs to provide clear and understandable interfaces giving control and visibility on all test levels.

D. Control: the SUT needs to provide interfaces that can be used to perform actions on SUT.

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.

A. a and b

B. c and d

C. a and c

D. d and e

Your company is new to test automation and as TAE. you have designed a TAS which successfully supports the SUT for the current project.

There are other systems currently in operation which have been tested manually and more systems are planned over the coming years. Based on this success, your company requires test automation be rolled out to other current and future

SUTs with consistency being a key objective.

Which of the following is the BEST way to achieve that?

A. Design a new TAS for each SUT, and manage each one through a dedicated automation support team.

B. Install the current TAS into a central repository so that other tests on different SUTs use the same version of the TAS.

C. Check for correct connectivity to internal and external systems to ensure that the TAS has been installed and configured correctly for each SUT.

D. Develop a tool that keeps track of automation failures across the different SUTs and produces regular reports to stakeholders.

In order to achieve re-use of a TAS, where SHOULD the design for reuse occur?

A. At the code level

B. At the framework level.

C. At the TAS level

D. At the TAA level

As the TAE, you are working with the organisation's Test Manager to decide which external metrics and which internal metrics should be gathered for the new TAS. Which of the following represents the BEST internal metric that would help measure the quality of the TAS and the number of problems associated with the TAS?

A. The average maintenance cost to keep an automated test in sync with the SUT

B. The number of hours of manual test effort saved by implementing a TAS

C. A measure of defect density within the TAS automation code

D. A measure of how many automated tests pass and fail

Which of the following CORRECTLY describes how automation SHOULD be applied to confirmation testing?

A. Confirmation tests are not good candidates for automation as they are not designed to run many times

B. Confirmation tests should only be automated if they fail to pass on the first attempt

C. Confirmation tests can be automated and incorporated into an automated regression suite to show whether defects that were previously fixed reoccur

D. A confirmation test should only be automated after it has been run manually

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.