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The CTAL-TAE certification exam is offered by the International Software Quality Institute (ISQI) and is based on the guidelines provided by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). The exam is intended for software testers who want to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in test automation engineering. It is also suitable for professionals involved in the development and maintenance of automated testing solutions.
The exam is designed for individuals who have already attained the ISTQB Foundation Level certification and the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test Manager certification. The CTAL-TAE exam is a challenging one and requires a thorough understanding of automation testing frameworks, programming languages, and automation tools. Candidates must have practical experience in automation testing to be able to pass the exam.
The ISQI CTAL-TAE (ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test Automation Engineering) Certification Exam is designed to test the knowledge and skills of professionals in the field of software testing automation. This certification is recognized worldwide and is highly valued by employers in the industry. The CTAL-TAE exam covers a wide range of topics, including test automation design, implementation, and maintenance, as well as test automation frameworks and tools.
NEW QUESTION # 21
As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within your organization. The projects require that tool to work effectively and efficiently with SUT's in distributed environments. The test automated tool also needs to interface with other existing test tools (test management tool and defect tracking tool.) The existing test tools subject to planned updates and their interface to the test automated tool may not work property after these updates.
Which of the following are the two LEAST important concerns related to the evaluation of the test automation in this scenario?
* Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in different environments?
* Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme thatallows accessing different sets?
* Does the test automation tool have a large featureset, but only part of the features will be sets?
* Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?
Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?
- A. A and C
- B. A and E
- C. C and D
- D. B and E
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 22
Consider the following example of TAS metrics.
Time to execute automated tests
Speed and efficiency of TAS components
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
- A. A and B are both internal TAS metrics
- B. A is and external TAS metric and b is an internal TAS metric
- C. A and b are both external TAS metric
- D. A is an internal TAS metric and B is an external TAS metric
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 23
Consider a TAS that is going to be deployed for the first time. The TAS requires share resources and run it its own test environment. The infrastructure for the TAS has been created along with maintenance procedures. It is very unlikely the TAS will be required to work in other target Environments. There is a high-risk that when the TAS is deployed in its own test environment, a number of existing application will no longer work because of conflicts with the existing shared resources.
Which of the following activities would you expect to be MOST effective at mitigating the risk associated with the first deployment of the TAS?
- A. Testing the TAS for application compatibility issues in the target environment
- B. Testing the TAS for its ability to be implemented in other target test environments.
- C. Testing the TAS for regressions due to optimization that fix non-functional issues.
- D. Testing the TAS for ITS ability to run a shared test environment
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 24
Which of the following metrics could suggest, under certain condition that an automated regression test suite has NOT been updated for new functionalities added to the SUT?
- A. The defect density in the automation code of the regression test suite.
- B. The ratio of commands to executable statements in the automation code of the regression test suite
- C. The ratio of comments to executable statements in the SUT code.
- D. The SUT code coverage provided by the execution of the regression test suite.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 25
Consider a SUT that small run on multiple platform during the execution of automated test runs. In each test run an automated test suite needs to be executed, with the same version of the TAF, against the same version of the SUT of each platform. Each platform shall have its own dedicated test environment. Your goal is to implement a process as automated as possible ( i.e with minimal manual intervention) that allows implementing a consistent setup of the TAS across the multiple test environments.
Which two of the following aspects are MOST relevant for achieving your goal in this scenario?
* The configuration of the TAS uses automated installation scripts
* The TAF saves the logs needed to debug errors in XML format
C)Features of the TAF not used by the automated tests have been tested
D)All the automated test cases contain the expected results
E)The TAS components are under configuration management
- A. B and c
- B. B and d
- C. A and d
- D. A and e
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 26
You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed specifically at automating a suit of existing manual test cases for standalone desktop applications. All the interfaces between the TAS and SUT will be from the CUI of the application.
Which of the following layers of the gTAA should you focus on for the TAS?
- A. The Test Execution layer
- B. The test Generation layer
- C. The Test Adaption layer
- D. The Test Definition layer
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 27
Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?
- A. 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
- B. Communications maintenance and improvements for reusing TAS artefacts are modifyaddressed during the design of the TAA
- C. Reusable TAS artifacts associated with the definition layer of the TAA include the adaptors to the SUT components and/or interfaces
- D. Reusable TAS artefacts can include components (or parts of components) associated with different layers of the TAA
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 28
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of test automation?
- A. The ability to find more defects with the same tests, compared to executing the same test 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 perform tests which would be difficult or impossible to execute manually
- D. The ability to enable a better use of skilled testers by freeing them from repetitive and boring tasks
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 29
Which of the following is NOT a technical design consideration for a TAA?
- A. Availability of interfaces for the SUT to be testable
- B. Data used by the SUT, e.g configuration, users
- C. The number of users for the SUT
- D. Standards and Legal requirements, e.g data privacy
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 30
As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within yourorganization. The projects require that tool to work effectively and efficiently with SUT's in distributed environments. The test automated tool also needs to interface with other existing test tools (test management tool and defect tracking tool.) The existing test tools subject to planned updates and their interface to the test automated tool may not work property after these updates.
Which of the following are the two LEAST important concerns related to the evaluation of the test automation in this scenario?
* Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in
* different environments?
* Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme that allows accessing different sets?
* Does the testautomation tool have a large feature set, but only part of the features will be sets?
* Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?
Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?
- A. A and C
- B. A and E
- C. C and D
- D. B and E
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 31
Consider a TAS that exclusively uses the APIs of a SUT. To make this work, significant changes have been required to the SUT by adding a set of dedicated test interfaces to the APIs. All the automated tests will use these test interfaces when interacting with the SUT. Assume that you are currently verifying the correctness of the automated test environment and test tool setup.
Which of the following would you expect to be the MOST specific risk associated with this scenario?
- A. The automated test cases will not contain the expected result
- B. The connectivity from the TAS to the dedicated test interfaces will not work
- C. False alarms, that are unlikely to occur in the real world, will be observed during testing
- D. The process of configuring the TAS will be error-phone due to manual intervention
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 32
Consider A TAS for testing a desktop application via its GUI. All the test cases of the automated test suite contain the same identical sequences of steps at the beginning (to create the necessary objects when doing a preliminary configuration of the test environment and at the end (to remove everything created -specifically for the test itself during the preliminary configuration of the test environment). All automated test cases use the same set of assertion functions from a shared library, for verifying the values in the GUI fields (e.g text boxes).
What is the BEST recommendation for improving the TAS?
- A. Adopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests
- B. Improving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability
- C. Implementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level
- D. Implementing keywords with higher level of granularity
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 33
Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?
- A. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests mustalways be the same as the corresponding manual tests
- B. When automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly
- C. When automating regression tests, theinitialization steps set the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible
- D. When automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 34
You have been asked to determine a TAS for a new release of a SUT,test should be automated wherever. The new release will consist of 5 new interfaces and an amendment to 3 existing interfaces. The new and amended interface will be deliver incrementally in 3 sprints, each lasting 2 weeks.
What would be the BEST Test Automation Solution (TAS) design in this scenario?
- A. Automate tests at both Component and System Level. Only do this automation once every interface has been fully developed or amended and manual testing has completed successfully.
- B. Automate tests at one level only, System level. Use only the newly developed interfaces and do not create any customized interfaces/test hooks.
- C. Automate the tests at two levels, Component and System level. Create customized hooks at Component level for interface not yet developed or amended. Only use the newly developed or amended interfaces to test at System level.
- D. Automate a test at once level, component level, Create customized interface/test hooks for this level where the interface has not yet been developed or amended.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 35
You are executing the first test run of a test automation suite of 200 tests. All the relevant information related to the state of the SUT and to the automated test execution is stored in a small database. During the Automated test run you observe that the first 10 test pass, while an abnormal termination occurs when executing the
11thtest. This test does not complete its execution and the overall execution of the suite is aborted. An immediate analysis of the abnormal termination is expected to be time consuming and you have been asked to produce a detailed report of the execution results for the first test run, as soon as possible.
What is the MOST important FIRST step to be taken immediately after the abnormal occurred when executing the 11thtest?
- A. Re-run the test automation suite starting from the 12thtest
- B. Re-run the test automation suite starting from the 1sttest.
- C. Return the database to a consistent state that allows subsequent test to run
- D. Take a backup of the database in its current state. So It can be analyzed later
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 36
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. Thetarget defined for the business case seems difficult to hit - it should be realistic
- B. The project selected for the pilot is too critical -if should not be too critical or too trivial
- C. The duration of the pilot project was too short -it should last unit the success factors are achieved
- D. The target defined for the business case is too accurate -it should not be measureable
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 37
You have been asked todeterminea TAS for a new release of a SUT, test should be automatedwherever. The new release will consist of 5 new interfaces and an amendment to 3 existing interfaces. The new and amended interface will be deliver incrementally in 3 sprints, each lasting 2 weeks.
What would be the BEST Test Automation Solution (TAS) design in this scenario?
- A. Automate the tests at two levels, Component and System level. Create customized hooks at Component level for interface not yet developed or amended. Only use the newly developed or amended interfaces to test at System level.
- B. Automate tests at both Component and System Level. Only do this automation once every interface has been fully developed or amended and manual testing has completed successfully.
- C. Automate tests at one level only, System level. Use only the newly developed interfaces and do not create any customized interfaces/test hooks.
- D. Automate a test at once level, component level, Create customized interface/test hooks for this level where the interface has not yet been developed or amended.
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION # 38
Consider a TAS that uses a keyword-driven framework. The SUT is a web application and there is a large set of keywords available for writing the automated tests that relate to highly specific user actions linked directly to the GUI of the SUT. The automated test written with the keywords are statically analyzed by a custom tool which highlight's repeated instances of identical sequence of keywords. The waiting mechanism implemented by the TAS for a webpage load is based on a synchronous sampling within a given timeout. The TAS allowschecking a webpage load everyseconds until a timeout value
- A. Changing the wait mechanism to explicit hard-coded waits
- B. Implementing keywords with a higher level of granularity
- C. Changing the scripting approach to data-driven scripting
- D. Establishing an error recovery process for TAS and SUT
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 39
Which of the following BEST describes why it is important to separate test definition from test execution in a TAA?
- A. It allows developing steps of the test process without being closely tied to the SUT interface.
- B. It allows testers to find more defects on the SUT
- C. It allows specify test cases without being closely tied to the tool to run them against the SUT
- D. It allow choosing different paradigms (e.g event-driven) for the interaction TAS and SUT
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 40
Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?
- A. When automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation
- B. When automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly
- C. When automating regression tests, the initialization stepsset the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible
- D. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests must always be the same as the corresponding manual tests
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 41
A defect in a SUT has been resolved and validated by an automated defect re-test in the current release of the software. This retest has now been addedto the automated regression test suite.
Which statement BEST describes a reason why this defect could re-occur in future releases?
- A. The configuration management process does not properly control the synchronization between software archives
- B. The automated regression test suite is not run consistently for future releases.
- C. The automated regression test suite has a narrower scope of functionality
- D. Automated defect confirmation testing is not effective at confirming that the resolved defect will continue to work in future releases
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 42
Which of the following metrics could suggest, under certain condition that an automated regression test suite has NOT been updated for new functionalities added to the SUT?
- A. The SUT code coverage provided by the execution of the regression test suite.
- B. The ratio of commands to executable statements in the automation code of the regression test suite
- C. The ratio of comments to executable statements in the SUT code.
- D. The defect density in the automation code of the regression test suite.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 43
A project consists of distributed teams working in a 24-hour environment, where activities happen at all hours of the day. This project adopts a CI (Continuous Integration) process when developer check-in code and consists of automated activities that include generating a build and deploying it to a test environment.
Automated integration tests are run multiple times a day. The project have asked for a report containing the automation test results for every build, which must be available 24/7 to the project team.
Which of the following would be the BEST way to automatically provides this report?
- A. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds), use this database to automatically update a dashboard containing the build history and test results accessible to the project team.
- B. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds). Automatically create a test execution report for this build and send it via e-mail to the project team
- C. Store the execution result of the integration tests for the last build to a database (overwriting the results from the previous build), automatically create atest execution report for this build send It via e-mail to the project team
- D. Store the code coverage results of the integration tests for the last build to a database (without overwriting the results from the previous builds). And automatically create a chart showing the trend in code coverage and send via email to the project team.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 44
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 whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests
- B. Do not run any tests because you can immediately confirm the correct functioning of the automated test suite
- C. 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 itsbehavior
- D. 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.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 45
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