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NEW QUESTION 15
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?
- A. The duration of the pilot project was too short -it should last unit the success factors are achieved
- B. The project selected for the pilot is too critical -if should not be too critical or too trivial
- C. Thetarget defined for the business case seems difficult to hit - it should be realistic
- D. The target defined for the business case is too accurate -it should not be measureable
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 16
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. Re-useability: The code written for the SUT must be re-useable for other similar system.
- B. Observability: The SUT needs to provide interface that give insight into the system.
- C. Control: the SUT needs to provide interfaces that can be used to perform actions on SUT.
- D. Clearly defined architecture: The SUT Architecture needs to provide clear and understandable interfaces giving control and visibility on all test levels.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 17
Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?
- A. When automating regression tests, the initialization stepsset the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible
- B. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests must always be the same as the corresponding manual tests
- C. When automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly
- D. When automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 18
Consider the following layers of the gTAA structure:
a.Test generation layer
b.Test definition layer
c.Test execution layer
d.Test execution layer
Consider the following capabilities associated with these layers.
Acquire all the necessary resources before each test and release all after run, in order to avoid interdependences between test Allow the automated test scripts on an abstract level to interact with components, configurations and interfaces of the SUT.
Design test directives that allow configuring the algorithms used to automatically produce the test cases a given model of the SUT.
Allow the definition and implementation of test cases and data by means of templates and/or guidelines.
Which of the following BEST matches each layer with the appropriate capability?
- A. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
- B. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
- C. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
- D. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 19
As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within yourorganization. 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?
* Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in
* different environments?
* Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme that allows accessing different sets?
* Does the testautomation tool have a large feature set, but only part of the features will be sets?
* Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?
Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?
- A. A and C
- B. B and E
- C. A and E
- D. C and D
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 20
A SUT has an existing automated test suite.
Which of the following statements relating to the introduction of new features in the SUT is TRUE?
- A. The introduction of a new feature could require updates or additions to the testware components
- B. The test automation engineer should work with the business analysts to ensure the new feature is testable
- C. It is generally more difficult to automate test cases for a new feature as the development has not yet started
- D. Automated tests are not affected by the introduction of a new feature and running them against the new SUT is a waste of effort
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 21
Which of the following is NOT a technical design consideration for a TAA?
- A. Data used by the SUT, e.g configuration, users
- B. Availability of interfaces for the SUT to be testable
- C. Standards and Legal requirements, e.g data privacy
- D. The number of users for the SUT
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 22
Which of the following attributes should NOT be included in a test execution report associated with a suite of automated tests?
- A. Environment in which the tests have been executed
- B. System/Application under test and its version
- C. Defect clusters identified during test execution
- D. Summary of the test execution results
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 23
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 addedto the automated regression test suite.
Which statement BEST describes a reason why this defect could re-occur in future releases?
- A. The configuration management process does not properly control the synchronization between software archives
- B. The automated regression test suite is not run consistently for future releases.
- C. Automated defect confirmation testing is not effective at confirming that the resolved defect will continue to work in future releases
- D. The automated regression test suite has a narrower scope of functionality
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 24
Which of the following BEST describes why it is important to separate test definition from test execution in a TAA?
- A. It allows developing steps of the test process without being closely tied to the SUT interface.
- B. It allows specify test cases without being closely tied to the tool to run them against the SUT
- C. It allows testers to findmore defects on the SUT
- D. It allow choosing different paradigms (e.g event-driven) for the interaction TAS and SUT
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 25
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. Adopting a test definition strategy based on use case/exception case coverage for the definition layer.
- 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. Looking for tools that allows direct denoting of exceptions and actions depending on the SUT events.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 26
A web application was released into production one year ago, it has regular release which follow a V-model lifecycle and testing is well-established and fully integration into the development lifecycle. You have beenasked to implement a TAS for the regression test suite. The regression tests have been developed via the GUI and are expected to be run at least four times a month, for each planned release, for the whole operation solution life of the system (six years). Each screen of the GUI uses several third-party controls which are not compatible with the existing automation solutions. The environment for the automation will be stable, fully controllable and separated from other environments (development, staging, production).
What could be the MOST problematic for this TAS?
- A. Complexity to automate
- B. Maturity of the test process
- C. Sustainability of the automated environment
- D. Frequency ofuse
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 27
Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?
- A. Reusable TAS artifacts associated with the definition layer of the TAA include the adaptors to the SUT components and/or interfaces
- B. To enable reuse of TAS artefacts, a good design for reuse is built into the TAA and to further action are needed during the TAS lifecycle
- C. Reusable TAS artefacts can include components (or parts of components) associated with different layers of the TAA
- D. Communications maintenance and improvements for reusing TAS artefacts are modifyaddressed during the design of the TAA
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 28
Which of thefollowingstatementsdoes NOT describe good practice for maintaining the TAS?
- A. The TAS must be under configuration management, along with the test suite,the testware artefacts and the test environment in which it runs
- B. The TAS must consist ofcomponents that can be easily replaced without affecting the overallbehavior of the TAS itself
- C. The TAS must run in the development environment because development and programming knowledge are required for its maintainability
- D. The TAS must separate the test scripts from the environment in which it runs and from the associated harnesses and artefacts
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 29
Youare 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.
Whichof the following layers of the gTAA should you focus on for the TAS?
- A. The test Generation layer
- B. The Test Definition layer
- C. The Test Adaption layer
- D. The Test Execution layer
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 30
Consider a TAS associated to dynamically changing software frequent releases. Your goal is to determine the amount of effort required to maintain the automated tests of the regression test suite for each new release of the SUT.
What is the MOST important metric to collect to achieve your goal?
- A. The number of automated tests which fail because of a single software defect, for each new release of the SUT
- B. The number of automated tests requiring maintenance, for each new release of the SUT.
- C. The time it takes to execute all the automated tests, for each new release of the SUT.
- D. The code coverage achieved with the automated tests, for each new release of the SUT
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 31
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?
* Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in different environments?
* Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme thatallows accessing different sets?
* Does the test automation tool have a large featureset, but only part of the features will be sets?
* Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?
Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?
- A. A and C
- B. B and E
- C. A and E
- D. C and D
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 32
The GUI of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application has been delivered through internet Explorer with proprietary Active X and Java controls. This implementation enables rich client capabilities, but specific commercial automation tools are necessary to automate test cases at GUI of functional test cases. This is to demonstrate whether a small set of the commercial are able to properly recognize actions taken by a tester when interacting with GUI of the CRM application.
Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable in this scenario?
- A. Structure scripting
- B. Keyword-driven scripting
- C. Linear scripting
- D. Data-driven scripting
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 33
Consider thefollowing example of TAS metrics.
Time to execute automated tests
Speed and efficiency of TAS components
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
- A. A is and external TAS metric and b is an internal TAS metric
- B. A and B are both internal TAS metrics
- C. A is an internal TAS metric and B is an external TAS metric
- D. A and b are both external TAS metric
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 34
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 automationregimefor the tests is not yet mature.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
- A. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.
- B. The approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment
- C. The target defined for the project was inappropriate, because the automationregimeforthe automated tests at the end of the pilot is not yet mature.
- D. The pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 35
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 allowschecking a webpage load everyseconds until a timeout value
- A. Implementing keywords with a higher level of granularity
- B. Changing the wait mechanism to explicit hard-coded waits
- C. Changing the scripting approach to data-driven scripting
- D. Establishing an error recovery process for TAS and SUT
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 36
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?
- A. Verify the behavior of the whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests
- B. Make 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 itsbehavior
- C. Verify 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.
- D. Do not run any tests because you can immediately confirm the correct functioning of the automated test suite
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 37
Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?
- A. When automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation
- B. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests mustalways be the same as the corresponding manual tests
- C. When automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly
- D. When automating regression tests, theinitialization steps set the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 38
Which of the following success factors for a test automation project is TRUE?
- A. The test cases to be automated first must always be selected based on the number of times a test will need to be run
- B. Automated tests must be designed to capture only the data that is strictly needed for comparing expected and actual results
- C. Automated tests that fail due to changes in the requirements of the SUT should be promptly fixed rather than disabled from the test suite
- D. The test cases to be automated must have a high dependency on particular data values
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 39
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 total execution time of the automated regression test suite will decrease for each planned release.
- B. False positive errors are likely to occur when running the automated tests on the new releases without modifying the test
- C. The keyword-driven framework introduces a level abstraction that is too high and makes it difficult what really happens
- D. The keyword-driven framework is not suitable, it would be better to adopt a structured-scripting approach
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 40
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