ISTQB CT-TAE Exam Dumps

Certified Tester Test Automation Engineer

ISTQB CT-TAE Sample Questions

Question # 1

You are implementing a TAS for a system that has been live for over three years, using ahybrid waterfall and agile lifecycle. Live updates are made on a monthly basis.There is no test team, with developers designing and executing unit and integration testswith some degree of automation and business analysts designing and executing manualtests at the system level. No formal test process exists, although the system has provedrelatively stable for most of the time.Unfortunately, the last two monthly releases were problematic with regression defectsfound in production. Your priority is the automation of functional regression tests at thesystem level, the budget for this has been approved by project stakeholders.The Business Analysts have identified which test cases are most suitable for regression.You must use the organisation's long standing commercial automation tool which haspassed a proof of concept in the platform for the system in question.Which of the following suitability criteria needs the MOST attention for the TAS?

A. Technical planning in support of ROI analysis  
B. Frequency of use.  
C. Compatibility and tool support  
D. Maturity of the test process  

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Question # 2

New features have been added for the current release of a SUT.Which action would NOT be appropriate for the TAE to perform when evaluating the impacton the TAS?

A. Gather feedback from the Business Analysts to determine if the current TAS will meetthe needs of the new features. 
B. Review existing keywords to see if they need to be modified.  
C. Run existing automated tests against the updated SUT to verify and record any changesto their correct operation. 
D. Evaluate compatibility with existing test tools and, where necessary, identify alternativesolutions. 

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Question # 3

What is NOT a factor in considering when you are asked to ensure an effective transitionfrom manual to automated tests?

A. Complexity to automate the manual test cases  
B. Correctness of test data and test cases  
C. The look and feel of the SUT  
D. The controllability of the SUT  

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Question # 4

You are testing a major enhancement to an air traffic control user interface. You have useof a sophisticated pre-production test environment, created specifically for large scaleautomated regression, performance and security testing. The window for regression testingis limited andmust successfully conclude, with no major regressions remaining, before the non-functionaltesting starts.You have been using the same version of the TAS for the last few releases, each timecompleting the automated regression test suite in a single overnight run. However, due tothe latest enhancements for the SUT, you believe there is a risk that the test suite may nolonger completeovernight and therefore delay performance and security testing.Which option would be the BEST and MOST cost-efficient approach to mitigate this risk?

A. Create a mirror of the pre-production test environment and split the regression test suiteto run in parallel across the environments. 
B. Split the regression test suite into multiple parts, running in the environment acrossconsecutive nights. 
C. Analyse the regression test suite and remove test coverage duplication and redundancy.  
D. Introduce better coding practices for the automation scripts, including coding guidelines,reviews and improved static analysis. 

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Question # 5

Your company is new to test automation and as TAE. you have designed a TAS whichsuccessfully supports the SUT for the current project.There are other systems currently in operation which have been tested manually and moresystems are planned over the coming years. Based on this success, your companyrequires test automation be rolled out to other current and future SUTs with consistencybeing a key objective.Which of the following is the BEST way to achieve that?

A. Design a new TAS for each SUT, and manage each one through a dedicatedautomation support team. 
B. Install the current TAS into a central repository so that other tests on different SUTs usethe same version of the TAS. 
C. Check for correct connectivity to internal and external systems to ensure that the TAShas been installed and configured correctly for each SUT.
D. Develop a tool that keeps track of automation failures across the different SUTs andproduces regular reports to stakeholders. 

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Question # 6

A project consists of distributed teams working in a 24-hour environment, where activitieshappen at all hours of the day. This project adopts a CI (Continuous Integration) processwhen developer check-in code and consists of automated activities that include generatinga build and deploying it to a test environment. Automated integration tests are run multipletimes a day. The project have asked for a report containing the automation test results forevery build, which must be available 24/7 to the project team.Which of the following would be the BEST way to automatically provides this report?

A. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database(without overwriting the results from the previous builds), use this database to automaticallyupdate a dashboard containing the build history and test results accessible to the projectteam. 
B. Store the execution result of the integration tests for the last build to a database(overwriting the results from the previous build), automatically create a test execution reportfor this build send It via e-mail to the project team 
C. Store the execution results of the integration tests for the last build to a database(without overwriting the results from the previous builds). Automatically create a testexecution report for this build and send it via e-mail to the project team
D. Store the code coverage results of the integration tests for the last build to a database(without overwriting the results from the previous builds). And automatically create a chartshowing the trend in code coverage and send via email to the project team. 

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