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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 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?
a) Add an event mechanism to the SUT which the TAF can subscribe to
b) Adopt a set of standard setup and teardown methods
c) Add an API to the SUT that will make the internal variables observable d) Update and improve the documentation of the TAA e) Implement hard-coded waits in scripts that have been affected by slow SUT response

• A. b and e
• B. a and b
• C. d and e
• D. a and c

Which items should be included in a report that is produced after execution of a test suite?

• A. Test environment details and root causes of defects found
• B. Test results and test environment details
• C. Test results and a list of operational stakeholders
• D. SUT information and TAS configuration details

Consider a TAS implemented to perform automated testing on native mobile apps at the UI level, where the TAF implements a client-server architecture. The client runs on-premise and allows creation of automated test scripts using TAF libraries to recognize and interact with the app's UI objects. The server runs in the cloud as part of a PaaS service, receiving commands from the client, translating them into actions for the mobile device, and sending the results to the client. The cloud platform hosts several mobile devices dedicated for use by this TAS. The device on which to run test scripts/test suites is specified at run time. You are currently verifying whether the test automation environment and all other TAS/TAF components work correctly. Which of the following activities would you perform to achieve your goal?

• A. Manage the infrastructure that hosts the server, including hardware, software updates, and security patches
• B. Check whether all test scripts that will be executed by the TAS as part of a given test suite have expected results
• C. Check whether the TAF libraries that the test scripts will use to recognize and interact with the app's UI objects (widgets) function as expected
• D. Check whether the references to the device on which the given test scripts/test suites will be executed are correctly hard-coded within these test scripts/test suites

Your company is about to start a project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with a new version that will be based on modern platforms. The main requirements for the system are:
1. Loading sales data, sent electronically from the stores each evening, into a central database.
2. Producing sales reports for the merchandisers, whose job is to manage stock levels in stores.
3. Producing forecast reports, used to predict future demand for each product, based on a combination of sales history and forecasting parameters. The parameters will be entered by the merchandisers into a browser-based front end and the reports will be produced overnight. The users will be able to retrieve the reports, on screen or in print, via an interactive feature.
Requirements 1 and 2 were already met by the old system and will be rewritten in the new system with some minor functional changes. The sales data will, as before, be loaded in an overnight batch run. There have been problems with the old system at peak periods when this run has taken longer than scheduled, so that dependent jobs could not finish before the start of the next working day. The Data Centre manager requires that the new system's overnight batch runs take 10% less time than the old one, including the new reports, to allow time for all jobs to complete.
Requirement 3 is new. The functionality provided by the UI will be simple and the Sales & Merchandising manager requires that it be easy to use.
The data for testing the reports will be extracted from the old system in production and will be anonymized before use.
The system will be developed using an Agile lifecycle with iterations of fixed length. This will be the first full deployment of this methodology, which has just completed a successful pilot. It is a relatively simple development and is expected to be completed in three releases, each taking approximately 2 months.
You are an experienced TAE and have been recruited to implement test automation on this project and have started to evaluate candidate tools to automate functional and some non-functional testing. It is already clear that no single tool will meet all requirements, and that the developers' existing Integrated Development Environment will meet the automation needs of their testing. The TAS will need to support CI/CD.
When reviewing your tool comparison table, what two tool capabilities will be MOST beneficial for this project?
i) The ability to support multiple and configurable test environments.
ii) The ability to manage test data in a way that supports version control of the data sets.
iii) The ability to be compatible with other tools that are likely to be used on the project.
iv) The ability to expand the overall test architecture and to be scalable and modifiable.
v) The ability for non-technical users to enter requests for customizable reports.

• A. i and iv
• B. iii and iv
• C. i and v
• D. ii and iii

You are working as a TAE for a small start-up insurance broker and your next project will be a new system for generating motor insurance quotes. The project will follow an Agile methodology. The stakeholders are keen to get it into production, but are realistic about the need to allow enough time for thorough testing and support automation of tests where appropriate.
Which approach for automating the tests would be MOST suitable for this project?

• A. Data-driven testing
• B. Linear scripting
• C. Structured scripting
• D. Keyword-driven testing