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You have been asked to implement test automation for a project that is not meeting itsdeadlines. After further analysis you discover that the manual testers are not able to keepup with the new feature testing because the regression testing is taking 75% of their time.As a result, the new features are being released with many defects and customers arecomplaining about the quality.Given this information, what metric SHOULD you be tracking to show the value of testautomation for this project?

You have been asked to automate a set of functional tests at system Test level via the CLIof the SUT for the first release of a software system. The automated tests will be deliveredto the learn in change of maintenance testing, who will use them for part of the regressiontesting. They have the following requirements.1. The automated tests must be as fast and cheap to maintain as possible2. The cost of adding new automated tests must be as low as possible3. The automated tests must have a high level of independence from the tool itselfWhich of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable?

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

Consider a TAS associated to dynamically changing software frequent releases. Your goalis to determine the amount of effort required to maintain the automated tests of theregression test suite for each new release of the SUT.What is the MOST important metric to collect to achieve your goal?

You are implementing test automation for a project that has a business critical application Atest execution tool is being used to run automated regression tests. The results from thetest execution tool are very important and need to be 100% accurate.You want to merge the test automation results with the test management system that alsorecords the manual test results so that managers can make informed decisions about theprogress quickly.Which layer of the gTAA will be used to ensure the proper reporting occurs and theinterfaces to the test management system are handled? 

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

You are currently designing the TAA of a TAS. You have been asked to adopt an approachfor 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 andexposes its functionality via an API. The behavior of the SUT depends on hardware andcommunication links that can be unreliable.Which of the following aspects is MOST important when designing the TAA in thisscenario?

You are working on a web-based application called Book Vault that allows people to uploadbooks and order books. This application must be available on all major browsers.You have been testing the application manually and management have asked you toconsider automating some of the tests.You have investigated a number of commercial and free tools which can automate tests ata web browser level and one tool in particular meets your requirements and you haveimplemented a trial version.You have basic programming skills and the main goal is to automate a few functional teststo see if the tool is compatible with the application and can recognise the objects andcontrols.Which scripting technique would be MOST suitable in this scenario in order to meet theobjectives?

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

In order to achieve re-use of a TAS, where SHOULD the design for reuse occur? 

You are evaluating several test modelling tools and are wanting to automatically generatetest cases within the tool where many different combinations of input data are created.You are then wanting to export the test cases into a csv file which can then be read by afunctional test execution tool using a data-driven or keyword-driven scripting method.You have investigated several tools and there is only one tool that provides all thenecessary features defined by your team with the exception of the export facility. It doesnot provide an export into either .xls or .csv formats.What would be the BEST next step regarding the selection of this tool?

A regression test suite consist of 500 test cases which are all executed manually. Thebusiness 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 testsin the regression test suite. The pilot project lasted one month ( as planned) and you arecurrently its results. At the end of the pilot project, 40% of the regression tests have beenautomated and their execution time has been reduce by 60%.Which of the following statements is TRUE in this scenario?

Consider a TAS deployed into production. The SUT is a web application and the test suiteconsists of a set of automated regression tests developed via GUI. A keyword-drivenframework has been adopted for automating the regression tests. The tests are based onidentification at low-levels of the web page components (e.g class indexes, tab sequenceindexes and coordinates) in the next planned release the SUT will be subject to significantcorrective maintenance (bug-fixes) and evolution (new features) Maintenance costs toupdate the test scripts should be as low as possible and the scripts must be highlyreusable.Which of the following statements is most likely to be TRUE?

As the TAE, you are working with the organisation's Test Manager to decide which externalmetrics and which internal metrics should be gathered for the new TAS.Which of the following represents the BEST internal metric that would help measure thequality of the TAS and the number of problems associated with the TAS?

If model-based testing has been selected for the overall test automation approach for aproject, how does that influence the layers of the TAA?

Consider a TAS that is going to be deployed for the first time. The TAS requires shareresources and run it its own test environment. The infrastructure for the TAS has beencreated along with maintenance procedures. It is very unlikely the TAS will be required towork in other targetEnvironments. There is a high-risk that when the TAS is deployed in its own testenvironment, a number of existing application will no longer work because of conflicts withthe existing shared resources.Which of the following activities would you expect to be MOST effective at mitigating therisk associated with the first deployment of the TAS? 

The Test Automation Manager has asked you to provide a solution for collecting metricsfrom the TAS that measures code coverage every time the automated regression test packis run. The metrics must be trend based to ensure that the scope of the regression testpack continues to reflect enhancements made to the SUT - coverage must not drop andshould ideally increase. The solution must be as automated as possible to avoidunnecessary manual overheads and errors.Which of the following approaches would BEST meet these requirements?

If you are tracking the frequency that a test automation code reports a defect that is notreally a defect, what metric are you gathering?

A web application was released into production one year ago, it has regular release whichfollow a V-model lifecycle and testing is well-established and fully integration into thedevelopment lifecycle. You have been asked to implement a TAS for the regression testsuite. The regression tests have been developed via the GUI and are expected to be run atleast four times a month, for each planned release, for the whole operation solution life ofthe system (six years). Each screen of the GUI uses several third-party controls which arenot compatible with the existing automation solutions. The environment for the automationwill be stable, fully controllable and separated from other environments (development,staging, production).What could be the MOST problematic for this TAS?

Consider the following example of TAS metrics.Time to execute automated testsSpeed and efficiency of TAS componentsWhich of the following statements is TRUE? 

You have investigated a new tool which enables the modelling of the SUT and can thengenerate test cases either manually or automatically. You have convinced your managersthat the best way forward is to conduct a pilot project for this tool. You need to select aproject to use for the pilot. You have the choice of the following projects:Project A: A two-year project that is critical to the business and is currently in therequirement phase. This project is for a new e-commerce web site and is mostly beingdeveloped “in-house" although the payment system is being developed and delivered by a3rd party provider.Project B: A safety critical application for software to drive and park cars.Project C: An upgrade to an important HR timesheet tracking application that will beavailable on a desktop and mobile application. This is a 1-month project developed inhouse.Project D The payment system from project A.Which project would be BEST for the pilot?

Assume that you are the TAE responsible for the correct functioning of a TAS, deployed ina test environment that consists of a few machines running the same version of theoperating system. The TAS has been working and stable since its deployment, it has beenused to run an automated test suite consisting of many similar automated test. Theinfrastructure team is planning to update the operating system on these machines byinstalling a new the service pack for security reasons. Since the vendor of the operatingsystem assurance full backward compatibility, the infrastructure team assurance that therewill 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?

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

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

You have been asked to determine a TAS for a new release of a SUT, test should beautomated wherever. The new release will consist of 5 new interfaces and an amendmentto 3 existing interfaces. The new and amended interface will be deliver incrementally in 3sprints, each lasting 2 weeks.What would be the BEST Test Automation Solution (TAS) design in this scenario?