ISQI CTAL-TAE_V2 actual dump : ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineering CTAL-TAE (Syllabus v2.0)

An automated test script makes a well-formed request to a REST API in the backend of a web app to add a single item for a product (with ID = 710) to the cart and expects a response confirming that the product is successfully added. The status line of the API response is HTTP/1.1 200 OK, while the response body indicates that the product is out of stock. The API response is correct, the test script fails but completes, and the message to log is: The product with ID = 710 is out of stock. Cart not updated. When this occurs, you are already aware that both the failed test and the API are behaving correctly and that the problem is in the test data. The TAS supports the following test logging levels: FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate test logging level to use to log the specified message?

• A. DEBUG
• B. WARN
• C. FATAL
• D. INFO

Which of the following recommendations can help improve the maintainability of test automation code?

• A. Avoid using static analyzers on test automation code and other development tools, as they are designed to improve the maintainability of SUT code
• B. Avoid adopting design patterns that introduce high levels of abstraction in test automation code, such as the flow model pattern
• C. Use error codes in test automation code instead of exceptions (if exceptions are supported by the programming language) for error handling
• D. Avoid producing test automation code containing methods with too many levels of nesting, as deeply nested code is more difficult to understand

A TAS that performs automated testing in a single test environment was successfully manually installed and configured from a central repository, with all its components in the correct versions. It was also verified that all TAS components in this environment are capable of providing reliable and repeatable performance. The TAS will be used to run several suites of automated regression test scripts on various SUTs in the test environment. Your current goal is to complete all preliminary verifications to ensure that the TAS works correctly. Which of the following activities would you perform FIRST?

• A. Create scripts to automatically install and configure the TAS in the test environment from the central repository
• B. Check whether all regression test scripts in a given suite have expected results
• C. Check whether the TAS connectivity to all required internal systems, external systems, and interfaces is available
• D. Run a given suite multiple times using TAS to determine whether all regression test scripts always provide the same result

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. 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
• B. Manage the infrastructure that hosts the server, including hardware, software updates, and security patches
• 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 all test scripts that will be executed by the TAS as part of a given test suite have expected results

Automated tests at the UI level for a web app adopt an asynchronous waiting mechanism that allows them to synchronize test steps with the app, so that they are executed correctly and at the right time, only when the app is ready and has processed the previous step: this is done when there are no timeouts or pending asynchronous requests. In this way, the tests automatically synchronize with the app's web pages. The same initialization tasks to set test preconditions are implemented as test steps for all tests. Regarding the pre- processing (Setup) features defined at the test suite level, the TAS provides both a Suite Setup (which runs exactly once when the suite starts) and a Test Setup (which runs at the start of each test case in the suite).
Which of the following recommendations would you provide for improving the TAS (assuming it is possible to perform all of them)?

• A. Adopt a manual synchronization with the app's web pages using hard-coded waits instead of the current automatic synchronization
• B. Implement the initialization tasks aimed at setting the preconditions of the tests within the Test Setup feature at the test suite level
• C. Adopt a manual synchronization with the app's web pages using dynamic waits via polling instead of the current automatic synchronization
• D. Implement the initialization tasks aimed at setting the preconditions of the tests within the Suite Setup feature at the test suite level