CTAL-TAE Online Practice Questions and Answers

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.

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 allow choosing different paradigms (e.g event-driven) for the interaction TAS and SUT

C. It allows specify test cases without being closely tied to the tool to run them against the SUT

D. It allows testers to find more defects on the SUT

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed at automatically and executing test cases based on a use-case Modeling approaching that uses UML as a modeling language. All the interaction between TAS and SUT will only be at the API and GUI level. Which of the following components of the gTAA would you EXCLUDE from the TAS?

A. The test reporting component of the test execution layer.

B. The Test execution component of the test generation layer

C. The test execution (test engine of the test execution layer

D. The Command Line Interface (CLI) component of the test adaptation layer

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

Which of the following metrics could suggest, under certain condition that an automated regression test suite has NOT been updated for new functionalities added to the SUT?

A. The ratio of comments to executable statements in the SUT code.

B. The SUT code coverage provided by the execution of the regression test suite.

C. The defect density in the automation code of the regression test suite.

D. The ratio of commands to executable statements in the automation code of the regression test suite

A project consists of distributed teams working in a 24-hour environment, where activities happen at all

hours of the day. This project adopts a CI (Continuous Integration) process when developer check-in code

and consists of automated activities that include generating a build and deploying it to a test environment.

Automated integration tests are run multiple times a day. The project have asked for a report containing

the automation test results for every build, which must be available 24/7 to the project team.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to automatically provides this report?

A. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds), use this database to automatically update a dashboard containing the build history and test results accessible to the project team.

B. Store the execution result of the integration tests for the last build to a database (overwriting the results from the previous build), automatically create a test execution report for this build send It via e-mail to the project team

C. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds). Automatically create a test execution report for this build and send it via e-mail to the project team

D. Store the code coverage results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds). And automatically create a chart showing the trend in code coverage and send via email to the project team.

What is NOT a factor in considering when you are asked to ensure an effective transition from manual to automated tests?

A. Complexity to automate the manual test cases

B. Correctness of test data and test cases

C. The look and feel of the SUT

D. The controllability of the SUT

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

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.

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