A web application was released into production one year ago, it has regular release which follow a V-model lifecycle and testing is well-established and fully integration into the development lifecycle. You have been asked to implement a TAS for the regression test suite. The regression tests have been developed via the GUI and are expected to be run at least four times a month, for each planned release, for the whole operation solution life of thesystem (six years). Each screen of the GUI uses several third-party controls which are not compatible with the existing automation solutions. The environment for the automation will be stable, fully controllable and separated from other environments (development, staging, production). What could be the MOST problematic for this TAS? 

You are the TAE for an Agile project which has six sprints for the current release. Sprint five is underway and the automated regression suite is due to start later today. You have re-examined the results from the automated regression runs for the past four sprints. You notice that two test cases both reported a pass for sprints 1 and 4 but a fail for sprints 2 and 3. The failures have gone undetected and are therefore unexplained. Both test cases are closely coupled with other tests in the suite. What course of action SHOULD you take?

You are getting ready to create test automation for a contract management system. Presently, the data is replicated from production quarterly and the testers query the database to find contracts with the proper parameters for their tests (expired contracts, contracts nearing expiration, etc.).

Which of the following automation suitability criteria is influenced by this data issue?

You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to increase tool use by the one project at a time. During this rollout some test processes will be changed slightly to gain additional benefits from using the tool. In the pilot project, a small set of manual tests were automated for the first time. You are currently monitoring the test automation efficiency and this reveals that the automation regime for the tests is not yet mature. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed specifically at automatically generating and executing test cases based on a use-case modeling approach that uses UML as modeling language. All the interactions between TAS and SUT will occur only at API and GUI level.

Based only on the given information, which of the following components of the gTAA would you exclude from the TAS in this scenario?