ISQI CTAL-TAE_V2 actual dump : ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineering CTAL-TAE (Syllabus v2.0)

You are employed as a TAE on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are:
1) Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have purchased and, from these details, create a purchase request.
2) Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it, or return it for clarification/modification.
3) Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
4) Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
Requirement 1 has now been delivered and has been satisfactorily tested manually. In parallel, you have developed a TAS so that functional suitability testing can be automated.
The functional suitability testing of Requirement 1 has now been automated as fully as possible. A change to add audit logging of user activity is planned but has not yet been made. After a small change to the UI code, the last regression run contained a significant number of unexplained test failures. At the point each test stopped, the actual and expected results showed no discrepancies. In each case, the run was able to continue with the next test in the suite. Preliminary investigation showed that the points at which these tests stopped had nothing obvious in common.
Which option below contains the BEST next steps to investigate this?

• A. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding an unreported verification discrepancy in the scripts
• B. Add user activity logging to the SUT, then repeat the test run so that correlation IDs are available
• C. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding a test environment outage
• D. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding a defect in the way that the TAS runs tests

An automated test case that should always pass sometimes passes and sometimes fails intermittently (non- deterministic behavior) when executed in the same test environment, even if no code (i.e., SUT code or the test automation code) has been changed. Which of the following statements about the root cause of this non- deterministic behavior is TRUE?

• A. The specified root cause must be in the instability of the test environment, since no code has been changed
• B. Determining the specified root cause may require, in addition to the TAE, the support of others such as developers and system engineers
• C. Determining the specified root cause is certainly easier than if the automated test always fails (deterministic behavior)
• D. The specified root cause is a race condition that can be identified by also analyzing the log files of the test case, the SUT, and the TAF

In a first possible implementation, the automated test scripts within a suite locate and interact with elements of a web UI indirectly through the browsers using browser-specific drivers and APIs, provided by an automated test tool used as part of the TAS. In an alternative implementation, these test scripts locate and interact with elements of the same web UI directly at the HTML level by accessing the DOM (Document Object Model) and internal JavaScript code. The first possible implementation:

• A. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are more likely to produce false positives
• B. Has a higher level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives
• C. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives
• D. Has the same level of intrusion as the alternative implementation, and therefore the risk of test scripts producing false positives is the same in both cases

(In User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for a new SUT, in addition to the manual tests performed by the end- users, automated tests are performed that focus on the execution of repetitive and routine test scenarios. In which of the following environments are all these tests typically performed?)

• A. Build environment
• B. Integration environment
• C. Production environment
• D. Preproduction environment

A TAS that performs automated testing in a single test environment was successfully manually installed and configured from a central repository, with all its components in the correct versions. It was also verified that all TAS components in this environment are capable of providing reliable and repeatable performance. The TAS will be used to run several suites of automated regression test scripts on various SUTs in the test environment. Your current goal is to complete all preliminary verifications to ensure that the TAS works correctly. Which of the following activities would you perform FIRST?

• A. Create scripts to automatically install and configure the TAS in the test environment from the central repository
• B. Check whether all regression test scripts in a given suite have expected results
• C. Check whether the TAS connectivity to all required internal systems, external systems, and interfaces is available
• D. Run a given suite multiple times using TAS to determine whether all regression test scripts always provide the same result