ISQI CTAL-TAE actual dump : ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test Automation Engineering

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. Sustainability of the automated environment
• B. Frequency of use
• C. Maturity of the test process
• D. Complexity to automate

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 a commercial 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 -it should last unit the success factors are achieved
• B. The target defined for the business case seems difficult to hit - it should be realistic
• C. The project selected for the pilot is too critical -if should not be too critical or too trivial
• D. The target defined for the business case is too accurate -it should not be measureable

(Which of the following statements about how test automation is applied across different software development lifecycle models is TRUE?)

• A. Unlike Agile software development, where automated unit tests are written by developers, often in a test-first fashion, in a V-model, automated unit tests are written by testers as part of unit testing
• B. In a Waterfall model, automated tests are usually executed only during the last phase of the development lifecycle, but their implementation occurs in the early stages
• C. In Agile software development, automated regression test suites sometimes grow so large that they can become difficult to maintain, and thus, it becomes crucial to invest in test automation at multiple test levels
• D. In Agile software development, regardless of context (e.g., type of application to be developed, tools available), test automation must be based on the test automation distribution known as the test pyramid model

A TAS is used to run on a test environment a suite of automated regression tests, written at the UI level, on different releases of a web app: all executions complete successfully, always providing correct results (i.e., producing neither false positives nor false negatives). The tests, all independent of each other, consist of executable test scripts based on the flow model pattern which has been implemented in a three-layer TAF (test scripts, business logic, core libraries) by expanding the page object model via the facade pattern. Currently the suite takes too long to run, and the test scripts are considered too long in terms of LOC (Lines of Code).
Which of the following recommendations would you provide for improving the TAS (assuming it is possible to perform all of them)?

• A. Modify the TAF so that test scripts are based on the page object model, rather than the flow model pattern
• B. Modify the architecture of the SUT to improve its testability and, if necessary, the TAA accordingly
• C. Split the suite into sub-suites and run each of them concurrently on different test environments
• D. Implement a mechanism to automatically reboot the entire web app in the event of a crash

(Which of the following aspects of "design for testability" is MOST directly associated with the need to define precisely which interfaces are available in the SUT for test automation at different test levels?)

• A. Architecture transparency
• B. Observability
• C. Autonomy
• D. Controllability