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Actual exam question from ISTQB's CT-TAE
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You are testing a major enhancement to an air traffic control user interface. You have use of a sophisticated pre-production test environment, created specifically for large scale automated regression, performance and security testing. The window for regression testing is limited and must successfully conclude, with no major regressions remaining, before the non-functional testing starts.
You have been using the same version of the TAS for the last few releases, each time completing the automated regression test suite in a single overnight run. However, due to the latest enhancements for the SUT, you believe there is a risk that the test suite may no longer complete overnight and therefore delay performance and security testing.
Which option would be the BEST and MOST cost-efficient approach to mitigate this risk?

  • A. Create a mirror of the pre-production test environment and split the regression test suite to run in parallel across the environments.
  • B. Split the regression test suite into multiple parts, running in the environment across consecutive nights.
  • C. Analyse the regression test suite and remove test coverage duplication and redundancy.
  • D. Introduce better coding practices for the automation scripts, including coding guidelines, reviews and improved static analysis.
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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FrancisFerreira
Highly Voted 1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
A would solve the issue at hand, but so would C. Thing is, A is certainly the LEAST cost-effective, for creating a second top-notch pre-prod environment would NOT be cheap. For this reason I would go with C.
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eglitmar
Most Recent 2 weeks, 2 days ago
B and C is correct, but if problem is also in time - then i would choose C.
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bberries
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Why wouldn't B be the most cost-efficient? e.g. If you had to investigate how many duplicated test cases there are, that could take up a significant amount of test resource depending on how many test cases/scenarios are in the solution. Some TASs have thousands of individual automated test scenarios in the one solution...
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issoChan
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
Dublication is NOT mentioned in given explanation. So answer should include parallel test-> A
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