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

Which of the following statement about the implementation of automated regression testing is FALSE?

• A. When automating regression tests, the structure of automated tests must always be the same as the corresponding manual tests
• B. When automating regression tests, the initialization steps set the test preconditions should be automated wherever possible
• C. When automating regression tests, the corresponding manual tests should have already been executed to verify they operate correctly
• D. When automating regression tests, consideration should be given to how much time would be saved by automation

To improve the maintainability of test automation code, it is recommended to adopt design principles and design patterns that allow the code to be structured into:

• A. Loosely coupled and loosely cohesive modules
• B. Highly coupled and highly cohesive modules
• C. Loosely coupled and highly cohesive modules
• D. Highly coupled and loosely cohesive modules

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 higher level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives
• B. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives
• C. 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
• D. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are more likely to produce false positives

A new TAS allows the implementation of automated data-driven test scripts. All the tasks planned for the initial deployment of this TAS, aimed at installing and configuring the TAS components and provisioning the infrastructure, will be performed manually by a dedicated, specialized team. This TAS is expected to be deployed in the future in other similar environments. As a TAE, you see a risk that the correct and reproducible deployment of the TAS cannot be guaranteed. Which of the following options is BEST suited for mitigating this risk?

• A. Nothing needs to be done, because the team that will manually perform the specified tasks, as they are specialized, will not make mistakes and will therefore be able to ensure a correct and reproducible deployment
• B. Partition the data tables containing test data used by data-driven test scripts into smaller data tables, using an appropriate logical criterion, to make them more manageable
• C. Review data-driven test scripts to better organize test libraries by adding test functions containing identical sequences of actions commonly implemented in a relevant number of scripts
• D. Try to automate most of the tasks related to the installation and configuration of the TAS components and those related to the provisioning of the infrastructure

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 is an internal TAS metric and B is an external TAS metric
• 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 and B are both internal TAS metrics