CTAL-TAE Real Exam Questions

Which statement about static analysis is TRUE?

You are working as a TAE for a company who have been using a web test execution tool for a number of years. The tool has been used successfully on ten web applications in the past. The company are developing a new web application which has a friendly User Interface, but the developers have used an object throughout the application which the tool is unable to recognise. As a result, you have no way of capturing the object or verifying the contents using the automation tool. What is the first thing you should do about this problem?

You are evaluating the best approach to implement automated tests at the UI level for a web app. Specifically, your goal is to allow test analysts to write automated tests in tabular format, within files that encapsulate logical test steps related to how a user interacts with the web UI, along with the corresponding test data. These steps must be expressed using natural language words that represent the actions performed by the user on the web UI. These files will then be interpreted and executed by a test execution tool. Which of the following approaches to test automation is BEST suited to achieve your goal?

You are working for a clothing retailer that has big stores in many cities. Your TAS, for the first time, been just been used for reliability and stress testing of the overnight batch processing that collects sales transactions from the stores and adds them to a data warehouse; functional suitability tests have been re-used for these runs. All tests have finished normally but their results have not been satisfactory; and it has been difficult to understand the nature of the defect or defects that have been causing the failures. What data, if added to the test logs, would MOST likely help with debugging in this situation?

You have been recruited as a TAE by a large travel agency and are now responsible for a mature TAS that is dedicated to functional testing of the company's booking system, which covers flights, hotels and packaged holidays. This application contains a complex UI and a lot of functionality. It is undergoing constant maintenance and enhancement by an agile team that adds tests to the regression test suite at the end of every iteration. The TAS supports structured scripting and this has been implemented to a high standard, with a well-managed script library and minimal code duplication. The TAA will not support any more advanced scripting techniques. The test automation that has been achieved so far was well received at first but is now the target of increasing criticism. It is perceived as being old- fashioned, poorly documented and in particular: 1. the test script maintenance overhead is becoming excessive because the test analysts frequently want data values to be changed; 2. test analysts are complaining that a new test which is similar to an existing one (except for data values) requires a new high-level script, and that they must ask a technical test analyst to do this for them; 3. the nightly full regression run is taking a long time and there is a risk that, as more tests are added, it will soon take too long to run in the available window; 4. some tests break frequently because of a slow response from the SUT; 5. some transactions are difficult to verify because they rely on variables that cannot be seen through the UI of the SUT; 6. the UI of the TAF is difficult to learn. The SUT architect is planning a major new release and they have offered to include features that will enhance its testability. You already have plans to deal with items 1, 2 and 3 on the list, so now you are considering how you might mitigate items 4, 5 and 6. Which TWO improvements will BEST address items 4, 5 and 6?