ISQI CTAL-TAE_V2 Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

You are employed as a TAE on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are:
1) Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have purchased and, from these details, create a purchase request.
2) Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it, or return it for clarification/modification.
3) Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
4) Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
Requirement 1 has now been delivered and has been satisfactorily tested manually. In parallel, you have developed a TAS so that functional suitability testing can be automated.
You have just conducted a pilot of the TAS on the implementation of Requirement 1 and several things went wrong:
* One test failed because some reference data that it needed was missing. This and several other failures were difficult to diagnose.
* Another test failed unexpectedly because an old version of the script was used.
Which three measures could mitigate these risks during deployment?
a) Full test logging down to and including trace level
b) Identification and correct configuration of all firewalls
c) Automated creation and loading of all data to meet test preconditions d) Provision of proper device configuration plans e) Careful packaging with thorough configuration management

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

You work for a company that produces a credit-checking software package. This product comes in three variants, each of which is tailored to meet the rules and attitudes of lending and borrowing money for a particular group of countries. Each variant has two different versions at any one time: the current live release and the next release, which is under development. Each variant has its own test environment; these environments are built on different platforms to reflect the diversity of real customer platforms.
A single TAS meets the automation needs of all three variants, with configurable features that allow for the platform differences. The SUT's test requirements are expanding rapidly and the TAS often needs enhancement to support this. The SUT's platforms are also changeable, due to updates from their vendors or a desire to sample different ones.
After any change, the TAS is re-installed from a central repository with automated scripts that implement the configuration parameters for the target environment. Following this, it has often been impossible to run tests properly or even at all and the installation has had to be repeated after the cause has been found. Which of the following actions is MOST likely to solve this issue?

• A. Non-functional testing of TAS components before installation to verify their interoperability with their target platforms
• B. Install by copying a standard configuration of the TAS from the central repository
• C. Connectivity checks after installation to verify interoperability between the TAS and the SUT platforms
• D. Stricter documentation and configuration management of the TAS components

Automated tests run by a TAS on a SUT can be subject to sudden bursts of messages to log during their execution. All log messages that occur during execution must be permanently stored in the corresponding test execution logs by the TAS for later analysis. If logging is not performed correctly, these bursts can reduce the execution speed of these automated tests, causing them to produce unreliable results. Which of the following solutions would you expect to be MOST useful to address this issue for TAS logging?

• A. Use a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server to ensure that the clocks of the machines running TAS and SUT are synchronized with a common time source
• B. Log all the messages in memory using a circular buffer and periodically flush the buffer to the corresponding log files associated with the specific execution
• C. Avoid logging the messages that occur during the specified bursts to minimize any potential performance overhead in test execution
• D. Log all the messages directly on the corresponding log files associated with the specific execution to ensure the permanent storage of test execution logs

Which of the following statements about a test progress report produced for an automated test suite is TRUE?

• A. The content of the test progress report should not be affected by the stakeholders to whom the report is intended
• B. The test progress report should indicate the test environment in which the tests were performed
• C. The test progress report should indicate, for each test in the suite, the start and end timestamps of the test
• D. The test progress report should indicate, for each test in the suite, the timestamps related to the test steps

Your TAS is being used for automated functional suitability testing of a stock management system. Several tests have crashed. Despite the fact that the SUT creates detailed logs of all its activity, it has been difficult to determine the reason(s) for these crashes from the TAS and SUT test logs.
What actions are MOST likely to help with debugging?
a) Ensure that the TAS logs a count of how many times each test case is run.
b) Ensure that the SUT logs all available configuration data when it starts up.
c) Ensure that the SUT logs all available crash dumps and stack traces in the event of failure.
d) Ensure that the SUT logs all values of randomly generated test input data.
e) Ensure exact time synchronization of all test logs before any tests are run.

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