Objective: Test Automation Development CTAL-TAE Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A team is automating tests for a banking application. The tests require specific customer profiles with known account balances. The data is sensitive and cannot be shared across test runs. The team wants to ensure that each test run uses the same baseline data. Which test data management strategy is most appropriate?

   • AShare a single set of test data across all test runs
   • BUse production data masked to remove sensitive information
   • CCreate a dedicated test database and restore it to a known state before each test run
   • DGenerate random data for each test run
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2. 2application · medium

   A team has a test suite of 1,000 UI tests that currently runs sequentially and takes 3 hours. They need to reduce execution time to under 1 hour to fit into their CI pipeline. The tests are independent and can run in any order. Which approach is most effective?

   • ARun tests in parallel across multiple machines or browser instances
   • BIncrease the timeout values to avoid flaky failures
   • CReduce the number of tests by removing low-priority ones
   • DOptimize each test to use more efficient locators and waits
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4. 3application · medium

   A development team wants to run their automated regression suite automatically whenever a developer pushes code to the main branch. They use Jenkins for CI/CD. The suite takes 45 minutes to complete. Which integration approach provides the fastest feedback while ensuring the suite runs on every push?

   • ARun the full regression suite only on pull requests, not on direct pushes
   • BTrigger the full regression suite on every push to the main branch
   • CRun a smoke test suite on every push and the full regression suite nightly
   • DRun the full regression suite manually on a weekly basis
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5. 4application · medium

   A financial services company is building a test automation suite for a new web application that uses Angular for the front end and Java microservices for the back end. The team has strong Java experience but limited JavaScript knowledge. They need to run 500 end-to-end tests nightly and want to minimize maintenance effort. Which framework selection best aligns with the team's skills and the application stack?

   • APlaywright with TypeScript and Jest, using fixtures
   • BCypress with JavaScript and Mocha, using custom commands
   • CSelenium WebDriver with Python and pytest, using the Page Object Model
   • DSelenium WebDriver with Java and TestNG, using the Page Object Model
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6. 5application · medium

   A company is starting a new project and wants to build a test automation architecture from scratch. The application is a mobile app with a REST API backend. The team has experience with both Appium and Rest Assured. They want a single, maintainable framework that can test both the API and the mobile UI. Which architectural approach is most appropriate?

   • AUse a single test project that uses Rest Assured for both API and mobile tests
   • BCreate a single test project that uses a custom abstraction layer to switch between Appium and Rest Assured
   • CUse a single test project that uses Appium for both API and mobile tests
   • DCreate two separate test projects: one for API tests using Rest Assured and one for mobile tests using Appium, with a shared utility library
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