BCS BCS Certifications ISTQB-TAE Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  You are implementing test automation for a project that has a business critical application A test execution tool is being used to run automated regression tests. The results from the test execution tool are very important and need to be 100%

  accurate.

  You want to merge the test automation results with the test management system that also records the manual test results so that managers can make informed decisions about the progress quickly.

  Which layer of the gTAA will be used to ensure the proper reporting occurs and the interfaces to the test management system are handled?

  A. The reporting layer

  B. The logging layer

  C. The execution layer

  D. The adaptation layer

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 12:

  When the SUT provides insight into the behaviour of the system, providing the users the with the status of the various actions performed so that they can check that expected behaviour equals actual behaviour, what is this called?

  A. Portability.

  B. Maintainability.

  C. Observability.

  D. Controllability.

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux-consultants/how-to-conduct-usability- testing-in-6-steps

• Question 13:

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

  A. Summary of the test execution results

  B. System/Application under test and its version

  C. Defect clusters identified during test execution D. Environment in which the tests have been executed

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 14:

  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 acommercial 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

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 15:

  A SUT has an existing automated test suite.

  Which of the following statements relating to the introduction of new features in the SUT is TRUE?

  A. Automated tests are not affected by the introduction of a new feature and running them against the new SUT is a waste of effort

  B. The introduction of a new feature could require updates or additions to the testware components

  C. The test automation engineer should work with the business analysts to ensure the new feature is testable

  D. It is generally more difficult to automate test cases for a new feature as the development has not yet started

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 16:

  You are the TAE for an Agile project which has six sprints for the current release. Sprint five is underway and the automated regression suite is due to start later today. You have re-examined the results from the automated regression runs for the past four sprints. You notice that two test cases both reported a pass for sprints 1 and 4 but a fail for sprints 2 and 3. The failures have gone undetected and are therefore unexplained. Both test cases are closely coupled with other tests in the suite.

  What course of action SHOULD you take?

  A. Run the regression suite as planned and see If the tests fail again if they do, determine the cause of failure.

  B. Remove the test cases from the regression suite and refer them to the test designer for manual testing for future sprints.

  C. Quarantine the test cases, run the regression suite without them, and perform root cause analysis on the test cases in parallel.

  D. Run the test cases manually now. If they still pass, keep them in the regression suite, if they fail perform root cause analysis.

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/regression-testing-tools-and-methods/

• Question 17:

  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 璼pecifically 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. Improving the architecture of the application in order to improve its testability

  C. Adopting a set of standard verification methods for use by all automated tests

  D. Implementing standard setup and teardown functions at test case level

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 18:

  You have been asked to automate a set of functional tests at system Test level via the CLI of the SUT for the first release of a software system. The automated tests will be delivered to the learn in change of maintenance testing, who will use them for part of the regression testing. They have the following requirements.

  1. The automated tests must be as fast and cheap to maintain as possible

  2. The cost of adding new automated tests must be as low as possible

  3. The automated tests must have a high level of independence from the tool itself Which of the following scripting techniques would be MOST suitable?

  A. Data-driven scripting

  B. Keyword-driven scripting

  C. Linear scripting

  D. Structure scripting

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 19:

  Which of the following metrics could suggest, under certain condition that an automated regression test suite has NOT been updated for new functionalities added to the SUT?

  A. The ratio of comments to executable statements in the SUT code.

  B. The SUT code coverage provided by the execution of the regression test suite.

  C. The defect density in the automation code of the regression test suite.

  D. The ratio of commands to executable statements in the automation code of the regression test suite

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 20:

  Consider a TAS that is going to be deployed for the first time. The TAS requires share resources and run it its own test environment. The infrastructure for the TAS has been created along with maintenance procedures. It is very unlikely the TAS will be required to work in other target environments. There is a high-risk that when the TAS is deployed in its own test environment, a number of existing application will no longer work because of conflicts with the existing shared resources.

  Which of the following activities would you expect to be MOST effective at mitigating the risk associated with the first deployment of the TAS?

  A. Testing the TAS for application compatibility issues in the target environment

  B. Testing the TAS for its ability to be implemented in other target test environments.

  C. Testing the TAS for regressions due to optimization that fix non-functional issues.

  D. Testing the TAS for ITS ability to run a shared test environment

  Correct Answer: B