Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineer (CTAL-TAE): CTAL-TAE

You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to increase tool use by the one project at a time. During this rollout some test processes will be changed slightly to gain additional benefits from using the tool. In the pilot project, a small set of manual tests were automated for the first time. You are currently monitoring the test automation efficiency and this reveals that the automation regime for the tests is not yet mature. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment

B. The pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered

C. The target defined for the project was inappropriate, because the automation regime for the automated tests at the end of the pilot is not yet mature.

D. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.

Consider a TAS associated to dynamically changing software frequent releases. Your goal is to determine

the amount of effort required to maintain the automated tests of the regression test suite for each new

release of the SUT.

What is the MOST important metric to collect to achieve your goal?

A. The code coverage achieved with the automated tests, for each new release of the SUT

B. The number of automated tests which fail because of a single software defect, for each new release of the SUT

C. The time it takes to execute all the automated tests, for each new release of the SUT.

D. The number of automated tests requiring maintenance, for each new release of the SUT.

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. Implementing keywords with higher level of granularity

B. Improving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability

C. Adopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests

D. Implementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level