You are currently conducting a Proof of Concept (PoC) aimed at selecting a tool that will be used for the development of a TAS. This TAS will exclusively be used by one team within your organization to implement automated UI-level test scripts for two web apps. The two tools selected for the PoC use JavaScript
/TypeScript to implement the automated test scripts and offer capture and playback capabilities. Three test cases for each of the two web apps were selected to be automated during the PoC. The PoC will compare these two tools in terms of their effectiveness in recognizing and interacting with UI widgets exercised by the test cases, to quickly determine whether test automation is possible and which tool is better. Which of the following TAFs is BEST suited for conducting the PoC?

• A. A one-layer TAF (test scripts)
• B. A layered TAF with more than three layers
• C. A three-layer TAF (test scripts, business logic, core libraries)
• D. A two-layer TAF (test scripts, test libraries)

Which of the following statements about contract testing is TRUE?

• A. Contract testing, regardless of the approach chosen (provider-driven or consumer-driven) does not need to rely on the creation of stubs/mocks since it is used to implement integration testing, not unit
  /component testing
• B. Contract testing can be viewed as a specialized form of API testing that can be applied to effectively and efficiently test integration between systems, but only if they interact synchronously
• C. The differences between the two approaches to contract testing stem primarily from which side creates the contract: this creation is done by the provider for the provider-driven approach and by the consumer (s) for the consumer-driven approach
• D. Contract testing can be viewed as a specialized form of API testing that can be applied to effectively and efficiently test integration between microservices, but only if they interact with REST APIs

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.
You intended to use the implementation of Requirement 1 as a pilot for the TAS. Which TWO of these objectives are MOST appropriate for this pilot?
a) Generate prototypes for the implementation options of the TAS
b) Demonstrate the suitability of at least one TAS implementation option c) Expose any risks to further deployment of this TAS d) Assess the quality of the implementation of Requirement 1 e) Enable a calculation of the likely return on investment for this TAS

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

You work as a TAE for a software vendor that produces bespoke software. Your current project is developing a process control system where data from sensors on the factory floor and human input through a web-based front end undergoes processing on backend platforms. This results in control instructions that are sent to the production line via a message broker.
Your test environment contains all of these components, including the sensors which run in a test harness.
These sensors are third-party components that are still under development, so they are often upgraded. The message broker is also a new third-party component which is still receiving regular patches. This requires frequent re-installation of the TAS, which takes significant manual effort, and there have been several occasions where it was not built correctly due to missing components and had to be rebuilt.
Which action is MOST likely to solve this issue with the TAS?

• A. Connectivity checks after installation to verify interoperability between the TAS and the sensors
• B. Functional testing of relevant TAS components before installation to verify their interoperability with any upgrade to the sensors
• C. Stricter documentation and configuration management of the TAS components
• D. Automated installation from a central repository where component upgrades can be managed