Free ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test Automation Engineering Exam CTAL-TAE Exam Practice Test

A web application was released into production one year ago, it has regular release which follow a V-model lifecycle and testing is well-established and fully integration into the development lifecycle. You have been asked to implement a TAS for the regression test suite. The regression tests have been developed via the GUI and are expected to be run at least four times a month, for each planned release, for the whole operation solution life of the system (six years). Each screen of the GUI uses several third-party controls which are not compatible with the existing automation solutions. The environment for the automation will be stable, fully controllable and separated from other environments (development, staging, production).What could be the MOST problematic for this TAS?

• Maturity of the test process
• Complexity to automate
• Frequency of use
• Sustainability of the automated environment

Which of the following attributes should NOT be included in a test execution report associated with a suite of automated tests?

• Summary of the test execution results
• System/Application under test and its version
• Defect clusters identified during test execution
• Environment in which the tests have been executed

A TAS uses a commercial test automation tool and the default logs generated by the inconsistent formats such as different types of messages (pass/fail steps, screenshots, warnings, etc.) To solve this issue some custom logging functions have been created from the test scripts, making it possible to log the different types of messages with the same format. However, this may cause a problem due to excessive size of the logs which can make it difficult to find the required information. Assume that all the default logs will be disabled when running the automated tests and that some tests will not generate excessively sized logs.Which of the following represents the BEST suggestion for implementing the custom logging functions?

• Implement the custom logging functions without saving timestamps
• Implement the custom logging functions to support different levels of tracing
• Implement the custom logging functions without saving stack traces
• Implement the custom logging functions to redirect the logs to multiple files

Which of the following statements BEST describe aspects of the SUT to consider when designing a TAA?

• All the interaction between SUT and TAS should be logged with the highest level of detail
• All the internal test interfaces of the SUT should be removed prior to the product release
• All the interface of the SUT affected by the tests should be controllable by the TAA
• All the external test interfaces of the SUT should be removed prior to the product release

Consider the following example of TAS metrics.Time to execute automated testsSpeed and efficiency of TAS componentsWhich of the following statements is TRUE?

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

Designing the System Under Test (SUT) for testability is important for a good test automation approach and can also benefit manual test execution.Which of the following is NOT a consideration when designing for testability?

• Observability: The SUT needs to provide interface that give insight into the system.
• Re-useability: The code written for the SUT must be re-useable for other similar system.
• Clearly defined architecture: The SUT Architecture needs to provide clear and understandable interfaces giving control and visibility on all test levels.
• Control: the SUT needs to provide interfaces that can be used to perform actions on SUT.

You are working on a TAS for standalone application. The automated tests are developed based on a automation framework that allows interaction with GUI elements using on object orientated API. The GUI elements include menus, buttons, radio buttons, text toolbars and their properties.Whilst automating a test, you have discovered that the GUI elements of some third party components are not identifiable by the automated tool you are using.Which of the following is the FIRST step that you take to investigate this issue?

• Verify the testability support with the providers of the third party components
• Verify whether the GUI identification depends on the browser.
• Adopt an approach that uses the coordinates of the GUI elements instead
• Verify whether naming standards for variables and have been defined for the current automation solution

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?

• 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.
• Store the execution result of the integration tests for the last build to a database (overwriting the results from the previous build), automatically create a test execution report for this build send It via e-mail to the project team
• 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
• 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.

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?

• 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.
• Automate tests at one level only, System level. Use only the newly developed interfaces and do not create any customized interfaces/test hooks.
• 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.
• 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.

The GUI of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application has been delivered through internet Explorer with proprietary Active X and Java controls. This implementation enables rich client capabilities, but specific commercial automation tools are necessary to automate test cases at GUI of functional test cases. This is to demonstrate whether a small set of the commercial are able to properly recognize actions taken by a tester when interacting with GUI of the CRM application.Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable in this scenario?

• Data-driven scripting
• Keyword-driven scripting
• Linear scripting
• Structure scripting