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TAE differentiates verifying the automation environment and infrastructure (the ability of the TAS to operate) from verifying the test suites’ correctness (the behavior of specific automated tests). The scenario states the TAS was installed correctly and its components perform reliably in isolation. The next preliminary verification is ensuring the TAS can actually interact with the necessary systems and interfaces required to execute tests end-to-end: SUT endpoints, browsers/devices, authentication services, databases, messaging systems, third-party integrations, and any CI/CD or artifact services it must access. If connectivity is missing or unstable, any subsequent suite executions or repeatability checks can fail for reasons unrelated to test logic, creating noise and wasted investigation. Creating installation scripts (A) is valuable for scalability, but it is not needed to confirm the TAS works in the already-installed single environment. Checking expected results in scripts (D) and running suites repeatedly for determinism (C) are important, but they assume the TAS can reliably reach all required dependencies. TAE recommends validating connectivity and access prerequisites early as a gate for meaningful execution. Therefore, the first activity is to verify TAS connectivity to all required internal/external systems and interfaces.

TAE materials commonly describe feature toggles (feature flags) as a mechanism to control which features are active in a given release or deployment without necessarily changing the codebase structure for each variant. Because toggles determine what functionality is actually enabled, they provide a practical basis for selecting which automated tests should run for that release configuration. When a feature is disabled via a toggle, executing tests for it can create false failures or wasted effort; when enabled, the corresponding tests become relevant as release evidence. Feature-driven development is a product/development planning approach and does not, by itself, provide an operational mechanism to declare what is active at runtime. Feature files (often associated with BDD) specify behavior scenarios, but they do not inherently indicate whether a feature is active in a particular release unless explicitly tied to toggles or release configuration. TDD focuses on coding practices at the unit level and similarly does not specify release-time feature availability. Feature toggles directly express “active vs. inactive” functionality and can be used to drive risk-based and relevance-based test execution decisions, matching the requirement precisely.

The described goal matches the defining characteristics of keyword-driven testing: tests are expressed using keywords (action words) that represent user operations, often arranged in tabular form with parameters/test data. TAE describes keyword-driven approaches as enabling non-programmers (e.g., test analysts) to create and maintain tests by combining high-level keywords such as “Open Browser,” “Click,” “Enter Text,” “Select,” “Verify Text,” etc., while the underlying automation framework maps those keywords to executable code. The use of files interpreted by a test execution tool is also typical: keyword tables (or similar structured specifications) are read and executed by the automation engine. Data-driven testing focuses on separating test logic from test data, typically running the same script multiple times with different datasets; it does not inherently require natural-language action words or tabular step definitions (though it can be combined). Linear scripting is code-centric and not aligned with analyst-authored natural language step tables. TDD is unrelated to the requirement of tabular, natural-language keyword specification for UI test steps. Therefore, keyword-driven testing is the best fit for the stated approach.