CTAL-TAE Practice Test

CTAL-TAE Practice Test practice questions, page 5 of 5, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

Your organisation has successfully implemented a Test Automaton Solution (TAS) for a new project which has since been delivered into production via a number of sprints. A series of maintenance releases are now planned. Some improvements were made to the Test Automation Architecture (TAA) as a result of feedback from the early sprints. The TAA improvements affected the TA, and the TAS was changed for the final sprint. The new version of the TAS was generally well received but some performance and usability issues were encountered with the TAS which have yet to be addressed. The test automation engineers supporting the maintenance releases must decide whether to use the enhanced TAS or the version that was used successfully for previous sprints. What is the BEST action to take next?

  1. Perform an analysis of risks versus benefits for the enhanced TAS and then decide which version to use.
  2. Use the previous version because this was proven to work. It will be too risky to use the new version, with unresolved issues, for a live system.
  3. Use the new version because, despite some issues, it works, and the live system should not be tested using a different TAS.
  4. Use the new version of the TAS for the first maintenance release on a trial basis. If issues are encountered, switch to the previous version for later releases until the issues are resolved.

Question 22

A major component of your organisation’s Test Automation Solutions (TAS) is a popular open-source third-party capture-replay tool for automated functional testing. Which two of the following must the Test Automation Engineer (TO) ensure happens for this TAS? The third party tool is placed under configuration management control. The annual support and maintenance costs are agreed with the tool’s vendor. It is important to obtain information about updates and new versions of the tool so that the third party tool is kept up to date. Ensure that the TAS test scripts are integrated into the tool’s framework. Ensure that no changes are made to the tool, because modifications are not allowed for third party products.

  1. a and b.
  2. c and d.
  3. a and c.
  4. d and e.

Question 23

As the TAE, you are working with the organisation’s Test Manager to decide which external metrics and which internal metrics should be gathered for the new TAS. Which of the following represents the BEST internal metric that would help measure the quality of the TAS and the number of problems associated with the TAS?

  1. The average maintenance cost to keep an automated test in sync with the SUT.
  2. The number of hours of manual test effort saved by implementing a TAS.
  3. A measure of defect density within the TAS automation code.
  4. A measure of how many automated tests pass and fail.

Question 24

You have been asked to implement test automation for a project that is not meeting its deadlines. After further analysis you discover that the manual testers are not able to keep up with the new feature testing because the regression testing is taking 75% of their time. As a result, the new features are being released with many defects and customers are complaining about the quality. Given this information, what metric SHOULD you be tracking to show the value of test automation for this project?

  1. Percentage of code covered by the test automation.
  2. Equivalent Manual Test Effort for the automated tests.
  3. Number of defects found by test automation.
  4. Percentage of builds accepted/rejected by the automated tests.