What is one potential benefit of using a test automation tool?

Question

Options

• AThe quality of defects will improve
• BEase of access to statistics about test progress
• CDisk space is not required to track versions of test artifacts
• DLess network traffic generated

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  91% (32)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Option B is correct because test automation tools typically provide dashboards, reports, and real-time metrics - giving teams instant visibility into pass/fail rates, test coverage, and execution trends without manual data collection.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A - Automation doesn't improve defect quality; it helps find defects faster and more consistently, but the nature of defects is unchanged.
• C - Automation tools actually require disk space to store test scripts, results, logs, and version history - often more than manual testing.
• D - Automated tests frequently generate more network traffic, especially in distributed CI/CD pipelines running tests in parallel.

Memory tip: Think of a test automation tool as a control panel - its core value is giving you clear, always-available readouts (statistics) about what's happening, which maps directly to option B.

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