BCS Exam TAE Topic 5 Question 36 Discussion

Actual exam question for BCS's ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineer exam

Question #: 36
Topic #: 5

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Consider a TAS that uses a keyword-driven framework. The SUT is a web application and there is a large set of keywords available for writing the automated tests that relate to highly specific user actions linked directly to the GUI of the SUT. The automated test written with the keywords are statically analyzed by a custom tool which highlight's repeated instances of identical sequence of keywords. The waiting mechanism implemented by the TAS for a webpage load is based on a synchronous sampling within a given timeout. The TAS allows checking a webpage load every seconds until a timeout value

AChanging the scripting approach to data-driven scripting

BImplementing keywords with a higher level of granularity

CChanging the wait mechanism to explicit hard-coded waits

DEstablishing an error recovery process for TAS and SUT

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Suggested Answer: C

by Chau at Mar 10, 2024, 12:51 PM

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Slyvia

3 days ago

That's a good point. Implementing keywords with a higher level of granularity could also make the tests more reusable.

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Gussie

5 days ago

I agree, but I also feel that changing the scripting approach to data-driven scripting could make the tests more scalable and maintainable.

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Corazon

11 days ago

I think the keyword-driven framework is quite efficient for testing the web application.

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