Ease of Maintenance CTEL-TM-SM Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A test team is developing automated tests for a new application. The application has a complex workflow that is used in many test scenarios. The test manager wants to ensure that future changes to this workflow require minimal test maintenance. Which design approach is most effective?

   • AUse a record-and-playback tool to capture the workflow for each test.
   • BDocument the workflow in a test plan and refer to it in each test.
   • CWrite each test as a standalone script that repeats the workflow steps.
   • DCreate a reusable test component that encapsulates the workflow and call it from multiple tests.
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2. 2application · medium

   A test manager is reviewing the test asset lifecycle. The team has just completed a major release and is about to start maintenance on the test suite. Which activity is part of the maintenance phase of the test asset lifecycle?

   • AUpdating test cases to reflect changes in the system's requirements.
   • BDesigning new test cases for the next release.
   • CDefining the test strategy for the project.
   • DExecuting the test cases to verify the release.
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4. 3expert · hard

   A test manager is comparing two test suites for maintainability. Suite A has 100 test cases and is updated frequently. Suite B has 200 test cases and is rarely updated. Which conclusion is most valid?

   • ASuite A is definitely less maintainable because it is updated more often.
   • BSuite B is more maintainable because it has more test cases.
   • CSuite A may be less maintainable, but the number of updates alone is not sufficient to conclude this.
   • DSuite B is less maintainable because it is rarely updated.
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5. 4expert · medium

   A test manager is implementing a metric to measure the maintainability of the test suite. The team wants to identify test cases that are overly complex and difficult to update. Which metric would be most effective?

   • AThe execution time of each test case.
   • BCyclomatic complexity of the test scripts.
   • CThe number of test cases in the suite.
   • DThe number of testers who have worked on each test case.
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6. 5expert · medium

   A company is planning to migrate its test environment from on-premises servers to a cloud-based infrastructure. The test suite contains many tests that depend on specific IP addresses and local file paths. The test manager must plan the maintenance. What is the most important consideration?

   • AIdentify all test assets that reference environment-specific values and update them to use configurable parameters.
   • BCreate a new test suite for the cloud environment and leave the old suite unchanged.
   • CRun the tests in the new environment and fix failures as they occur.
   • DKeep the old environment running until all tests are updated.
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