ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineering: CTAL-TAE

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 duration of the pilot project was too short 璱t should last unit the success factors are achieved

B. The target defined for the business case is too accurate 璱t should not be measureable

C. The project selected for the pilot is too critical 璱f should not be too critical or too trivial

D. The target defined for the business case seems difficult to hit ?it should be realistic

Which of the following statements does NOT describe good practice for maintaining the TAS?

A. The TAS must run in the development environment because development and programming knowledge are required for its maintainability

B. The TAS must be under configuration management, along with the test suite, the testware artefacts and the test environment in which it runs

C. The TAS must separate the test scripts from the environment in which it runs and from the associated harnesses and artefacts

D. The TAS must consist of components that can be easily replaced without affecting the overall behavior of the TAS itself

Assume that you are the TAE responsible for the correct functioning of a TAS, deployed in a test environment that consists of a few machines running the same version of the operating system. The TAS has been working and stable since its deployment, it has been used to run an automated test suite consisting of many similar automated test. The infrastructure team is planning to update the operating system on these machines by installing a new the service pack for security reasons. Since the vendor of the operating system assurance full backward compatibility, the infrastructure team assurance that there will be no impacts on the functioning of the TAS. What is the BEST approach to confirm the correct functioning of the TAS in this scenario?

A. Verify the behavior of the automated tests by running a small tests, then gradually run the remaining tests to confirm the correct functioning of the whole automated test suite.

B. Make sure that the infrastructure team has completed installing the service pack on the machines where SUT is running, then run the whole automated test suite to verify its behavior

C. Verify the behavior of the whole automated test suite by running all the automated tests

D. Do not run any tests because you can immediately confirm the correct functioning of the automated test suite