Free CTAL-TAE: ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level-Test Automation Engineering Exam Questions and Answers

Which of the following BEST describes the role of the test adaptation capability in a TAA? Select ONE option.

• AA. It runs the automated tests and logs the outcome of each executed test case
• BB. It defines the test cases and test data in a format that the TAF can interpret
• CC. It generates test cases automatically from a model that describes the SUT behavior
• DD. It provides the code that connects the automated tests to the interfaces of the SUT

You are reviewing a TAS that contains 300 test scripts written in Python by several engineers. Before the scripts are merged into the main branch, you plan to run a static analysis tool on them. Which of the following problems is the tool MOST LIKELY to detect? Select ONE option.

• AA. Duplicated code blocks and unused variables spread across several test scripts
• BB. Intermittent timeouts that occur only when the SUT runs on a heavily loaded server
• CC. Expected results that are wrong because the requirements were misread by the author
• DD. Gradual memory growth in the test tool during an overnight execution of the full suite

You are the test automation engineer for a retail bank. The SUT is a mobile banking app with native iOS and Android clients that call a REST back end. The loan eligibility rules are implemented in back-end services and change every month. The GUI is redesigned every quarter, and the app must be verified on about 25 device models. A full manual regression takes six days. You have been asked to propose a test automation solution for the regression tests. Which of the following proposals is BEST? Select ONE option.

• AA. Automate all regression tests through the GUI of both apps on a device farm, and treat the REST services as covered indirectly
• BB. Record the manual GUI tests with capture/playback on one device model, and replay the recordings unchanged on the other device models
• CC. Automate the loan eligibility tests at the REST API level, and add a small GUI smoke suite that runs on a representative subset of the device models
• DD. Automate the loan eligibility rules at unit test level only, and keep every API and GUI regression test manual because of the quarterly redesign

You are responsible for the test progress report of a nightly automated regression suite. Results are written to the TAS log database after every run. The audience includes the project manager, the developers and the product owner. Which of the following BEST describes how the report should be constructed and published? Select ONE option.

• AA. Test engineers copy results from the logs into a document after each run, keep only verified failures, and send the document to the project manager
• BB. Results are collected automatically from the logs, summarized as metrics such as pass/fail counts and trends, and published where stakeholders can access them
• CC. The complete raw execution logs of the TAS are attached to every report, so each stakeholder can derive the metrics they need
• DD. The report is generated once per release from the final run only, and published in the test management tool for the test team

You are the test automation engineer for a TAS that tests an online ordering SUT through its API. A suite of 12 automated tests runs in a CI pipeline. When run one at a time, every test passes. When the pipeline runs them in parallel, 2 to 4 of the tests fail in each run, and the failing tests change from run to run. The SUT build and the test environment are the same in every run. All 12 tests create an order and later delete it, using the same customer account. Which of the following is the MOST LIKELY cause of the unexpected results? Select ONE option.

• AA. The logging level of the TAF is too low to record the failure details of the tests that fail.
• BB. The expected results in the tests no longer match the specification of the order function in the SUT.
• CC. The SUT contains a defect in order creation that only appears when several requests arrive at once.
• DD. The tests share one customer account, so one test deletes orders that another test still relies on.

Which TWO of the following are ways in which static analysis can help improve the quality of test automation code? Select TWO options.

Select 2 answers.

• AA. It measures the response time of test scripts while they run against the SUT.
• BB. It confirms that the SUT returns the expected results for each test script.
• CC. It detects violations of the coding standards defined for the testware.
• DD. It finds unused variables and unreachable code in test scripts without executing them.

After a release, all 80 automated GUI tests of a web shop pass. Shortly afterwards, customers report that discount codes are no longer applied at checkout. You review the checkout test and see that it enters a valid discount code, clicks the Apply button and verifies that the message "Code accepted" is displayed. It does not check the order total. Which of the following BEST describes the unexpected result produced by this test? Select ONE option.

• AA. A false-fail result, because the script reports a failure that the SUT did not cause.
• BB. A false-pass result, because the script verifies too little to detect the defect in the SUT.
• CC. A test data problem, because the discount code is no longer valid in the test environment.
• DD. A synchronization problem, because the script checks the message before the page is updated.

A TAS automates API tests for a billing SUT. Release 4.1 is in production and still receives patches, while release 4.2 is being developed. The API changed between the two releases, so some automated tests that pass on 4.2 fail on 4.1 and the reverse. The team keeps a single copy of the testware, and engineers constantly overwrite scripts to match whichever release they are working on. Which of the following is the BEST recommendation for configuration management of the testware? Select ONE option.

• AA. Keep only the latest testware in the repository and store copies of earlier testware as archives on a shared network drive
• BB. Maintain one testware version containing conditional logic that selects the behavior for each released SUT version
• CC. Place the test scripts under version control and leave test data and tool configuration on each engineer's own machine
• DD. Place scripts, test data and tool configuration under version control and label them so each SUT release has a matching testware version

You are designing the test libraries of a TAS for an insurance SUT. In every test case, the scripts call a database setup class, an API client class and a UI driver class in the same order to prepare a customer account. This leads to long scripts that depend on the details of three classes. You want to provide one simple interface that hides these classes from the test cases. Which of the following design patterns should you apply? Select ONE option.

• AA. Page Object
• BB. Facade
• CC. Singleton
• DD. Flow Model

You are the TAE for a TAS built on the gTAA. The test cases are written as sequences of keywords in the test definition layer and run through a test execution layer. Until now the SUT exposed its services through a REST interface. In the next release, the SUT replaces REST with a gRPC interface, while the functionality and the keywords visible to the testers stay the same. In which layer of the gTAA should the main changes be made? Select ONE option.

• AA. Test adaptation layer
• BB. Test execution layer
• CC. Test generation layer
• DD. Test definition layer