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You are a TAE working for a software house which provides quarterly releases of its software to its customers.
There are many different versions of the SUT that need to be tested simultaneously by different tests teams.
Your TAS is complex and you need to ensure it remains consistent across the different SUT environments.
What is the BEST and MOST efficient way to ensure each of the test teams use the same version of the TAS to test the different versions of the SUT?

• A. Due to the complexities involved and the high risks associated with these releases, it would be best to revert to manual testing.
• B. Produce comprehensive documentation of the TAS, installation and usage guidelines and provide training for each team member.
• C. Develop a tool to track historical test results across the different SUT environments and look for trends.
• D. Install the TAS is a central repository and have an automated installation and configuration of the TAS from this repository to each of the SUT environments.

You are currently designing the TAA of a TAS. You have been asked to adopt an approach for automatically generating and executing test cases from a model that defines the SUT. The SUT is a state-based and event-driven that is described by a finite-state machine and exposes its functionality via an API. The behavior of the SUT depends on hardware and communication links that can be unreliable.
Which of the following aspects is MOST important when designing the TAA in this scenario?

• A. Adopting a test definition strategy based on use case/exception case coverage for the definition layer.
• B. Adopting a test definition strategy based on classification tree coverage for the test definition layer.
• C. Looking for tools that allow performing setup and teardown of the test suites and the SUT.
• D. Looking for tools that allows direct denoting of exceptions and actions depending on the SUT events.

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. Implementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level
• C. Improving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability
• D. Adopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests

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?
A) The configuration of the TAS uses automated installation scripts
B) 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. A and e
• B. B and c
• C. B and d
• D. A and d

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. The project selected for the pilot is too critical -if should not be too critical or too trivial
• B. The target defined for the business case seems difficult to hit - it should be realistic
• C. The target defined for the business case is too accurate -it should not be measureable
• D. The duration of the pilot project was too short -it should last unit the success factors are achieved