Consider choosing an approach for the automated implementation of manual regression test suites written at the UI level for some already developed web apps. The TAS is based on a programming language that allows the creation of test libraries and provides a capture/playback feature that allows recognition and interaction with all widgets in the web UIs being tested. The automated tests will be implemented by team members with strong programming skills. The chosen approach should aim to reduce both the effort required to maintain automated tests and the effort required to add new automated tests. Which of the following approaches would you choose?

• A. Structured scripting
• B. Linear scripting
• C. Capture/playback
• D. Test-Driven Development (TDD)

You are currently designing the TAA of a TAS. You have been asked to adopt an approach for automatically generating and executing test cases from a model that defines the SUT. The SUT is a state-based and event- driven that is described by a finite-state machine and exposes its functionality via an API. The behavior of the SUT depends on hardware and communication links that can be unreliable.
Which of the following aspects is MOST important when designing the TAA in this scenario?

• A. Looking for tools that allows direct denoting of exceptions and actions depending on the SUT events.
• B. Adopting a test definition strategy based on use case/exception case coverage for the definition layer.
• C. Adopting a test definition strategy based on classification tree coverage for the test definition layer.
• D. Looking for tools that allow performing setup and teardown of the test suites and the SUT.

As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within your organization. The projects require that tool to work effectively and efficiently with SUT's in distributed environments. The test automated tool also needs to interface with other existing test tools (test management tool and defect tracking tool.) The existing test tools subject to planned updates and their interface to the test automated tool may not work property after these updates.
Which of the following are the two LEAST important concerns related to the evaluation of the test automation in this scenario?
Is the test automation tool able to launch processors and execute test cases on multiple machines in different environments?
Does the test automation tool support a licensing scheme that allows accessing different sets?
Does the test automation tool have a large feature set, but only part of the features will be sets?
Do the release notes for the planned updates on existing specify the impacts on their interfaces to other tools?
Does the test automation tool need to install specific libraries that could impact the SUT?

• A. A and E
• B. C and D
• C. B and E
• D. A and C

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of test automation?

• A. The ability to find more defects with the same tests, compared to executing the same test manually
• B. The ability to enable a better use of skilled testers by freeing them from repetitive and boring tasks
• C. The ability to perform tests which would be difficult or impossible to execute manually
• D. The ability to run more tests in less time and therefore to make it possible to run them more often

In a first possible implementation, the automated test scripts within a suite locate and interact with elements of a web UI indirectly through the browsers using browser-specific drivers and APIs, provided by an automated test tool used as part of the TAS. In an alternative implementation, these test scripts locate and interact with elements of the same web UI directly at the HTML level by accessing the DOM (Document Object Model) and internal JavaScript code. The first possible implementation:

• A. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives
• B. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are more likely to produce false positives
• C. Has the same level of intrusion as the alternative implementation, and therefore the risk of test scripts producing false positives is the same in both cases
• D. Has a higher level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives