A team is evaluating two automation tools. Tool A has a low upfront cost but requires significant scripting skills. Tool B has a higher upfront cost but provides a user-friendly interface and built-in reporting. The team has limited programming experience. Which factor should be the primary consideration in the selection?

The team's ability to use the tool effectively.

The tool's popularity in the market.

A product has a stable core module and a frequently changing UI module. The team has 100 test cases for the core and 50 for the UI. They run the full suite once per week. The test manager must decide what to automate with a limited budget. The core tests are repetitive and stable; the UI tests require significant human judgment for visual verification. What is the most cost-effective automation strategy?

Automate the 50 UI tests and keep the 100 core tests manual.

Automate the 100 core tests and keep the 50 UI tests manual.

Automate all 150 tests to achieve maximum coverage.

Keep all tests manual to avoid the risk of automation.

What is a potential risk of test automation related to maintenance costs?

Automated tests are always more expensive to run than manual tests.

Automated tests do not require any maintenance if they pass initially.

Automated tests are only useful for a single release cycle.

Automated tests require ongoing effort to update when the application changes.

A team is testing a new feature that involves complex user interactions and visual layout. The feature is still in the design phase, and the requirements are expected to change. The team needs to provide early feedback on usability. Which testing approach is most suitable?

Automate the tests using a data-driven approach.

Write automated tests for the visual layout only.

Automate the test cases to ensure repeatability.

Use manual exploratory testing to evaluate usability and provide immediate feedback.

A team automated a critical payment flow. The automated tests pass, but a defect in the payment processing was released to production. The team discovers that the automated tests did not cover the specific error-handling path that failed. What is the most likely reason for this gap?

The automated tests were not run frequently enough.

The test automation was focused on happy-path scenarios and did not include negative or error-handling tests.

The automation tool was not capable of testing the payment flow.

The testers did not have enough time to run the tests.

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A team is evaluating two automation tools. Tool A has a low upfront cost but requires significant scripting skills. Tool B has a higher upfront cost but provides a user-friendly interface and built-in reporting. The team has limited programming experience. Which factor should be the primary consideration in the selection?
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A product has a stable core module and a frequently changing UI module. The team has 100 test cases for the core and 50 for the UI. They run the full suite once per week. The test manager must decide what to automate with a limited budget. The core tests are repetitive and stable; the UI tests require significant human judgment for visual verification. What is the most cost-effective automation strategy?
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What is a potential risk of test automation related to maintenance costs?
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A team is testing a new feature that involves complex user interactions and visual layout. The feature is still in the design phase, and the requirements are expected to change. The team needs to provide early feedback on usability. Which testing approach is most suitable?
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5expert · hard
A team automated a critical payment flow. The automated tests pass, but a defect in the payment processing was released to production. The team discovers that the automated tests did not cover the specific error-handling path that failed. What is the most likely reason for this gap?
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What is a potential risk of test automation related to maintenance costs?

A team is testing a new feature that involves complex user interactions and visual layout. The feature is still in the design phase, and the requirements are expected to change. The team needs to provide early feedback on usability. Which testing approach is most suitable?

A team automated a critical payment flow. The automated tests pass, but a defect in the payment processing was released to production. The team discovers that the automated tests did not cover the specific error-handling path that failed. What is the most likely reason for this gap?

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