(In User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for a new SUT, in addition to the manual tests performed by the end- users, automated tests are performed that focus on the execution of repetitive and routine test scenarios. In which of the following environments are all these tests typically performed?)

• A. Build environment
• B. Production environment
• C. Integration environment
• D. Preproduction environment

You are employed as a TAE on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are:
1) Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have purchased and, from these details, create a purchase request.
2) Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it, or return it for clarification/modification.
3) Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
4) Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
Requirement 1 has now been delivered and has been satisfactorily tested manually. In parallel, you have developed a TAS so that functional suitability testing can be automated.
The functional suitability testing of Requirement 1 has now been automated as fully as possible. A change to add audit logging of user activity is planned but has not yet been made. After a small change to the UI code, the last regression run contained a significant number of unexplained test failures. At the point each test stopped, the actual and expected results showed no discrepancies. In each case, the run was able to continue with the next test in the suite. Preliminary investigation showed that the points at which these tests stopped had nothing obvious in common.
Which option below contains the BEST next steps to investigate this?

• A. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding an unreported verification discrepancy in the scripts
• B. Add user activity logging to the SUT, then repeat the test run so that correlation IDs are available
• C. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding a defect in the way that the TAS runs tests
• D. Analyze all available log information with the aim of finding a test environment outage

Which one of the following answers does NOT refer to an example of configuration item(s) that should be specified in development pipelines to identify a test environment (and its specific test data) associated with a web app under test on which to execute automated tests?

• A. The base URL of the test environment where the web app is deployed (i.e., the root address for accessing the web app)
• B. The connection string(s) to connect to the test database(s) within the test environment where the web app is deployed
• C. The number and type of automated tests to execute in the test environment where the web app is deployed
• D. The URLs of web APIs/web services related to the web app's backend within the test environment where the app is deployed

Automated tests at the UI level for a web app adopt an asynchronous waiting mechanism that allows them to synchronize test steps with the app, so that they are executed correctly and at the right time, only when the app is ready and has processed the previous step: this is done when there are no timeouts or pending asynchronous requests. In this way, the tests automatically synchronize with the app's web pages. The same initialization tasks to set test preconditions are implemented as test steps for all tests. Regarding the pre- processing (Setup) features defined at the test suite level, the TAS provides both a Suite Setup (which runs exactly once when the suite starts) and a Test Setup (which runs at the start of each test case in the suite).
Which of the following recommendations would you provide for improving the TAS (assuming it is possible to perform all of them)?

• A. Adopt a manual synchronization with the app's web pages using dynamic waits via polling instead of the current automatic synchronization
• B. Implement the initialization tasks aimed at setting the preconditions of the tests within the Suite Setup feature at the test suite level
• C. Adopt a manual synchronization with the app's web pages using hard-coded waits instead of the current automatic synchronization
• D. Implement the initialization tasks aimed at setting the preconditions of the tests within the Test Setup feature at the test suite level