CTAL-TTA Exam Dumps : Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst

A common technical issue causing automation projects to fail in delivering the planned return on investment is the lack of maintainability in their design. Automation frameworks and scripts that are not designed with maintainability in mind can become cumbersome to update and scale as the software evolves. This results in increased costs and effort over time to keep the automation relevant and effective, which can erode the expected returns on investment from the automation initiative .

The provided pseudo code for the Answer program shows a WHILE loop that will always execute because the condition for the loop to terminate (a >= d) is never met within the loop's body. This results in an infinite loop. Additionally, since the value of 'b' is initialized with 'a + 10' and 'a' starts from a value that is read and then set to 2, 'b' will never be equal to 12. Therefore, the 'THEN' branch of the IF statement, which includes 'print(b)', is unreachable. These are control flow anomalies because they represent logic in the code that will not function as presumably intended.

Program tax check

Integer: tax_rate

real: tax%

BEGIN

tax% := 0

GET (tax_rate)

WHILE tax_rate > 0 loop

IF tax_rate > 3 THEN

tax_rate := 3

ENDIF

tax% := tax% + (tax_rate / 10)

tax_rate := tax_rate - 1

ENDLOOP

IF tax% > 0.6 THEN

print ("tax rate is high")

ELSEIF tax% < 0.1 THEN

print ("tax rate is zero")

ELSE

print ("tax rate is low")

ENDIF

END tax check

Explanation of Control Flow:

Initialization:

tax% := 0

Get Tax Rate:

GET (tax_rate)

While Loop:

Loop runs while tax_rate > 0.

Inside the loop:

If tax_rate > 3, set tax_rate to 3.

Update tax% by adding tax_rate / 10.

Decrement tax_rate by 1.

Post-Loop Condition Checks:

After the loop, check the value of tax%:

If tax% > 0.6, print "tax rate is high".

Else if tax% < 0.1, print "tax rate is zero".

Otherwise, print "tax rate is low".

Unreachable Code Analysis:

The ELSEIF tax% < 0.1 THEN condition (line 17) is unreachable.

In the loop, tax% is incremented by a minimum of 0.1 each time tax_rate is greater than 0.

Therefore, tax% cannot be less than 0.1 after the loop.

Conclusion:

Line 17 (ELSEIF tax% < 0.1 THEN) will never be true given the logic of the loop.