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

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 have inherited a TAS that is working well it uses keyword-driven scripting and was well architected. The automation architect who built the system has now moved on to another company. The TAS is working across several projects and has a multiple library of keywords, categorised by project. The individual project teams maintain these keyword scripts.

Based only on the given information, what is the MOST significant risk for the TAS?

A. The keyword driven scripts may become out of date if not maintained

B. The level of abstraction, coupled with the departure of the architect may make the system hard to maintain

C. New projects may not work as well with the TAS as the current projects

D. Because the keyword scripts are maintained by different teams, there is a likelihood that good coding standards are not followed

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 11thtest. 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 11thtest?

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

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 1sttest.

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

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

You have been asked to automate a set of functional tests at system Test level via the CLI of the SUT for the first release of a software system. The automated tests will be delivered to the learn in change of maintenance testing, who will use them for part of the regression testing. They have the following requirements.

1. The automated tests must be as fast and cheap to maintain as possible

2. The cost of adding new automated tests must be as low as possible

3. The automated tests must have a high level of independence from the tool itself Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable?

A. Data-driven scripting

B. Keyword-driven scripting

C. Linear scripting

D. Structure scripting

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 acommercial 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 璱t should last unit the success factors are achieved

B. The target defined for the business case is too accurate 璱t should not be measureable

C. The project selected for the pilot is too critical 璱f should not be too critical or too trivial

D. The target defined for the business case seems difficult to hit ?it should be realistic

When the SUT provides insight into the behaviour of the system, providing the users the with the status of the various actions performed so that they can check that expected behaviour equals actual behaviour, what is this called?

A. Portability.

B. Maintainability.

C. Observability.

D. Controllability.

Which of the following statements does NOT describe good practice for maintaining the TAS?

A. The TAS must run in the development environment because development and programming knowledge are required for its maintainability

B. The TAS must be under configuration management, along with the test suite, the testware artefacts and the test environment in which it runs

C. The TAS must separate the test scripts from the environment in which it runs and from the associated harnesses and artefacts

D. The TAS must consist of components that can be easily replaced without affecting the overall behavior of the TAS itself