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Question 1 Selectable Answer

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

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Question 2 Selectable Answer

You are planning the pilot for an in-house developed Test Automation solution (TAS).
Which two of the following would be important steps to take as part of the planning process?
a) Review your organisation's current projects and identify which one would be most suitable to pilot the TAS.
b) Ensure that the developers will provide the necessary commitment for the TAS deployment activities.
c) Run a series of training workshops for new users of the TAS before they are asked to use it.
d) Develop a project plan for the pilot and reserve the necessary budget and resources for its implementation.
e) Ask the developers to provide any missing functionality during the deployment activities.

A. a and b
B. b and d
C. c and d
D. c and e

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Question 3 Selectable Answer

You have been asked to develop test automation for a legacy system that is going to go through a series of infrastructure migrations. The scripts will be used to verify basic functionality during these infrastructure changes Your Test Analysts have some programming skills and need a solution that is simple and fast.
Maintainability of the scripts is not a consideration because no changes to the software are anticipated.
Which of the following is the BEST scripting approach in this situation?

A. Structured scripting
B. Capture-replay scripting
C. Model-Based scripting
D. Linear scripting

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Question 4 Selectable Answer

Which of the following success factors for a test automation project is TRUE?

A. Automated tests must be designed to capture only the data that is strictly needed for comparing expected and actual results
B. The test cases to be automated first must always be selected based on the number of times a test will need to be run
C. The test cases to be automated must have a high dependency on particular data values
D. Automated tests that fail due to changes in the requirements of the SUT should be promptly fixed rather than disabled from the test suite

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Question 5 Selectable Answer

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 SU

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Question 6 Selectable Answer

Which of the following is an important success factor for any significant automation project?

A. The TAA must be designed for testability.
B. The TAA is self-documenting
C. The SUT must be designed for testability
D. The SUT is self-documenting

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Reference: https://www.infoq.com/articles/success-test-automation/

Question 7 Selectable Answer

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

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Question 8 Selectable Answer

When if the BEST time for automation to consider legal and/or standard requirements for a SUT?

A. When implementing the SUT
B. When designing a TAF
C. When designing a TAA
D. When developing a TAS

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Reference: https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/when-should-you-automate-your-software-testing

Question 9 Selectable Answer

Which of the following is considered a disadvantage of test automation?

A. Automated exploratory testing is difficult to implement
B. Test automation can be a distraction from the objective of finding bugs
C. Tests are more likely to have operator errors.
D. Slower feedback on the quality of the system.

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Reference: https://blog.qasource.com/resources/are-there-any-disadvantages-of-automation-testing-in-quality-assurance

Question 10 Selectable Answer

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

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Question 11 Selectable Answer

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

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Question 12 Selectable Answer

Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?

A. Reusable TAS artefacts can include components (or parts of components) associated with different layers of the TAA
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. Communications maintenance and improvements for reusing TAS artefacts are modify addressed during the design of the TAA
D. Reusable TAS artifacts associated with the definition layer of the TAA include the adaptors to the SUT components and/or interfaces

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Question 13 Selectable Answer

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

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Question 14 Selectable Answer

What represents good practice when automating a manual regression test suite?

A. Test data shared between tests should, where feasible, be stored and accessed from a single source to avoid duplication or introduction of error.
B. All existing manual tests should be decomposed into several smaller automated tests to reduce functional overlap.
C. Remove inter-dependencies between tests to reduce automation failures and costly error analysis.
D. Once a manual test has been automated, execute it immediately to Identify whether it operates correctly.

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Reference: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/manual-to-automation-testing-process-challenges/

Question 15 Selectable Answer

Your organisation has successfully implemented a Test Automaton Solution (TAS) for a new project which has since been delivered into production via a number of sprints. A series of maintenance releases are now planned.
Some improvements were made to the Test Automation Architecture (TAA) as a result of feedback from the early sprints. The TAA improvements affected the TA, and the TAS was changed for the final sprint.
The new version of the TAS was generally well received but some performance and usability issues were encountered with the TAS which have yet to be addressed.
The test automation engineers supporting the maintenance releases must decide whether to use the enhanced TAS or the version that was used successfully for previous sprints.
What is the BEST action to take next?

A. Perform an analysis of risks versus benefits for the enhanced TAS and then decide which version to use.
B. Use the previous version because this was proven to work. It will be too risky to use the new version, with unresolved issues, for a live system.
C. Use the new version because, despite some issues, it works, and the live system should not be tested using a different TA
D. Use the new version of the TAS for the first maintenance release on a trial basis. If issues are encountered, switch to the previous version for later releases until the issues are resolved.

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