What outcome can happen as a result of a high level of test tool intrusion?

• A. Failures that will not be seen in production
• B. Corruption of data in some test data sets
• C. A greater need for configuration management controls
• D. Lack of repeatability of some test results

You are a TAE responsible for a TAS that is used on several products, all of which have simple UIs and utilize a range of APIs. Automation of the regression test suites for these products is generally going well, with repeatability and pass rates both at high levels. These regression suites include a large quantity of tests and the volume of code that has been written for them is substantial.
You are looking for ways to improve the test cases in this TAS. What approach would you use FIRST?

• A. Artificial intelligence
• B. Test histograms
• C. Schema validation
• D. Growth models

Which of the following practices can be used to specify the active (i.e., actually available) features for each release of the SUT and determine the corresponding automated tests that must be executed for a given release?

• A. Test-driven development
• B. Feature-driven development
• C. The use of feature toggles
• D. The use of feature files

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

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 higher level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less 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 lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are more likely to produce false positives