CTAL-TAE · Question #99
You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to…
The correct answer is D. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool. Option D is correct because the monitoring evidence - showing the automation regime is not yet mature - reveals that merely changing test processes "slightly" during rollout is insufficient. Gaining the real benefits of automation typically requires more fundamental process…
Question
You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to increase tool use by the one project at a time. During this rollout some test processes will be changed slightly to gain additional benefits from using the tool. In the pilot project, a small set of manual tests were automated for the first time. You are currently monitoring the test automation efficiency and this reveals that the automation regime for the tests is not yet mature. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
Options
- AThe approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment
- BThe pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered
- CThe target defined for the project was inappropriate, because the automation regime for the
- DThe test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.
How the community answered
(50 responses)- A12% (6)
- B24% (12)
- C6% (3)
- D58% (29)
Explanation
Option D is correct because the monitoring evidence - showing the automation regime is not yet mature - reveals that merely changing test processes "slightly" during rollout is insufficient. Gaining the real benefits of automation typically requires more fundamental process adaptation; automating existing manual workflows with minor tweaks rarely unlocks an automation tool's full potential.
Why the distractors are wrong:
- A is false - while some elements (pilot first, incremental rollout) appear aligned with standard success factors, the immature automation regime is direct evidence that the overall approach is falling short of those factors.
- B is false - standard guidance explicitly recommends choosing a non-critical project for the pilot, so teams can learn and fail safely; using a critical project would increase risk, not maximize benefit.
- C is false (though the option is truncated) - starting with a small set of tests in a pilot is the recommended approach; it is an appropriate, not inappropriate, target for first-time automation.
Memory tip: Think of it as the "slight = stagnant" rule - if monitoring shows automation maturity is stuck, the cause is almost always that changes to the process were too conservative. Real automation gains demand real process change.
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.