CTAL-TAE Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of test automation?

A. The ability to perform tests which would be difficult or impossible to execute manually

B. The ability to run more tests in less time and therefore to make it possible to run them more often

C. The ability to find more defects with the same tests, compared to executing the same test manually

D. The ability to enable a better use of skilled testers by freeing them from repetitive and boring tasks

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 reviewing the testability of your SUT.

Which of the following BEST refers to the characteristic of OBSERVABILITY?

A. The ability of the SUT to perform its intended function for a specified period of time

B. The ability to exercise the SUT by entering inputs, triggering events and invoking methods

C. The ability of the SUT to prevent unauthorized access to its components or data.

D. The ability to identify states, outputs, intermediate result and error messages in the SUT

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.

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. Data-driven scripting

B. Keyword-driven scripting

C. Linear scripting

D. Structure scripting

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?

A. The test Generation layer

B. The Test Definition layer

C. The Test Adaption layer

D. The Test Execution layer

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 been asked 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. Maturity of the test process

B. Complexity to automate

C. Frequency of use

D. Sustainability of the automated environment

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 added to the automated regression test suite. Which statement BEST describes a reason why this defect could re-occur in future releases?

A. Automated defect confirmation testing is not effective at confirming that the resolved defect will continue to work in future releases

B. The configuration management process does not properly control the synchronization between software archives

C. The automated regression test suite is not run consistently for future releases.

D. The automated regression test suite has a narrower scope of functionality

You are executing the first test run of a test automation suite of 200 tests. All the relevant information related to the state of the SUT and to the automated test execution is stored in a small database. During the Automated test run you observe that the first 10 test pass, while an abnormal termination occurs when executing the 11th test. This test does not complete its execution and the overall execution of the suite is aborted. An immediate analysis of the abnormal termination is expected to be time consuming and you have been asked to produce a detailed report of the execution results for the first test run, as soon as possible. What is the MOST important FIRST step to be taken immediately after the abnormal occurred when executing the 11th test?

A. Re-run the test automation suite starting from the 12th test

B. Return the database to a consistent state that allows subsequent test to run

C. Take a backup of the database in its current state. So It can be analyzed later

D. Re-run the test automation suite starting from the 1st test.

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 automated tests by running a small tests, then gradually run the remaining tests to confirm the correct functioning of the whole automated test suite.

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 its behavior

C. Verify the behavior of the whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests

D. Do not run any tests because you can immediately confirm the correct functioning of the automated test suite