CT-TAE Tests Practice Questions

What is NOT a factor in considering when you are asked to ensure an effective transition from manual to automated tests?

• AA. Complexity to automate the manual test cases
• BB. Correctness of test data and test cases
• CC. The look and feel of the SUT
• DD. The controllability of the SUT

You have executed an automated test suite for a product that was released into production. Although all the tests passed, there was a major failure in production in an area that was covered well by your automated tests. You have run the automated tests again and one of the tests is now failing and this is directly related to the production defect that was raised. You decide to run the automated test suite again on the same version of the SUT and the test now passes. What SHOULD you do now to verify the validity of the automated tests?

• AA. Remove the intermittently failing test from the test suite and investigate the reason why the test sometimes passes and sometimes fails.
• BB. Check that the production defect that was reported was an actual defect
• CC. Run the automated test suite again and if the test now passes - do nothing
• DD. Reference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341396240_Intermittently_Failing_Tests_in_the_ Embedded_Systems_Domain

You are implementing a TAS for a system that has been live for over three years, using a hybrid waterfall and agile lifecycle. Live updates are made on a monthly basis. There is no test team, with developers designing and executing unit and integration tests with some degree of automation and business analysts designing and executing manual tests at the system level. No formal test process exists, although the system has proved relatively stable for most of the time. Unfortunately, the last two monthly releases were problematic with regression defects found in production. Your priority is the automation of functional regression tests at the system level, the budget for this has been approved by project stakeholders. The Business Analysts have identified which test cases are most suitable for regression. You must use the organisation's long standing commercial automation tool which has passed a proof of concept in the platform for the system in question. Which of the following suitability criteria needs the MOST attention for the TAS?

• AA. Technical planning in support of ROI analysis
• BB. Frequency of use.
• CC. Compatibility and tool support
• DD. Maturity of the test process