Sunday, 3 July 2011

Manual Testing FAQ

1. Boundary value analyses


2. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a process.


3. When is a good time for system testing?


4. What is the difference between software Matrix and software Metrics?


5. One product is going to be released after 2 or 3 days using ad-hoc testing one bug is found that crashing the system how a tester will rated according to priority and severity?I) Low priority and high severity.II) High priority and low severityIII) Low priority and low severityIV) High priority and high severity


6. What is the purpose of the testing?


7. Identify the Bug


8. Caching configuration


9. Who are all the members involved in product release?


10. Difference between mercury Quality Centre and Rational Clear Quest


11. What is the difference between system testing and module testing?


12. Testing Estimations: What are the approaches for giving testing estimations


13. What are properties of good requirement?


14. what are the essentials of software testing process?


15. Explain Real time scenario's of Testing?


16. How will you test a Session?Can we parametrize the properties of Object Reprosity?What are software metrics?


17. How much interaction with user should tester have and why?


18. Why do you want to join our company?


19. Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours


20. Difference between Black & White box testing


21. Walkthrough & Review


22. Testing Cost


23. Which of the following is the formal verification method


24. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.


25. What did you include in a test plan?


26. What are the three key skills a Tester should possess ?


27. Describe to me the difference between validation and verification.


28. What is the criteria used for selecting tools


29. V-model and modified V-model


30. Explain me the Flow of "V Model SDLC"?


31. How do Computer Aided Software testing tools support test management?


32. What is the exact difference between QTP and RFT ?


33. You have run all your tests and they all pass. Is this good news or bad news? 2. Automated testing is necessary when a. testing has to be done very quickly(Only one test for a application) b. number of resources are very less c. most of the test cases are similar in nature d. all of the above3. What is an Inconsistent bug? 4. How do you go about testing a project? 5. How do you go about testing of Web Application?6. How do you go about testing of Client Server Application? 7. Ho


34. Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report?


35. What is cyclo metric number?


36. Give me some examples of how you have participated in Integration Testing.


37. How many types of functional testings can be done in manual testing? Explain.


38. How do you conduct testing without connecting to data base? Which types of testings you will do at that time?


39. After a bug is found at the Clients place, sent to the Development team for fixing it and then given to the Testing team, What is that type of Testing called?


40. what is criteria for suspension of testing?


41. What is Clear Quest?


42. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin?


43. When is Whitebox Testing performed in the testing life cycle?


44. What types of testing does non-functional testing include?


45. When we find a defect we use the defect tab of the test director to report the bug to the developers. Do we need the defect description from the test director for any other purpose, other than reporting it to the developers.


46 Tell me about any quality efforts you have overseen or implemented. Describe some of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them.


47. How do you know your code has met specifications when there are no specifications?


48. How do you survive chaos?


49. What do you like about Windows?


50. Discuss the economics of automation and the role of metrics in testing.

 
51. Why was integration testing considered as a different item than Functional Testing 


52. How does unit testing play a role in the development / software lifecycle?


53. How would you define a "bug?"


54. What should Development require of QA?


55. What did your base your test cases?


56. Have you ever created a test plan?


57. If you come onboard, give me a general idea of what your first overall tasks will be as far as starting a quality effort.


58. What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members. Do you think managing change is such a big deal for us?


59. what is pre-condition and post-condition ?


60. What is difference between waterfall and v _model?


61. 1) what is Injuctiontesting


62. What is the difference between functional requirements and business requirements.


63. What is CMM and CMMI? What is the difference?


64. A company is planning to launch an Online Recruitment job website for selection, scheduling and Interview candidates. Write a Test Plan for that.2.What Report document a Tester submits to developer and Higher Testing Authority.3.Scenario A: Web Form with one Input data control Scenario B: Web form with several input data controlsWhat type of Testing you do for Scenario B which you don't need to do in Scenario A.4. What Testing tools you are using in your company and what other three tools


65. Which of the following statements about regression testing are true? (1) Regression Testing must consist of a fixed set of tests to create a baseline(2) Regressoin Testing should be used to detect defects in new features(3) Regression Testing can be run on every build(4) Regression Testing should be targeted to areas of high risk and known code change(5) Regression Testing, when automated, is highly effective in preventing defectsChoose any one: (1&3), (1&5), (3&4), (1,4&5), (2,3&4)


66. how will u know that the testcase written by you is correct before your testing goes to live


67. Please help me friend who know perfectly ans of this question i faced this question 2 times i m try
Please help me friend who know perfectly ans of this question i faced this question 2 times i m trying to ans of this question but my ans is not satisfyed to interviewer plz give ans fastQ) plz give 5 to 6 examples of high priority and low severity & high severity and low priority?Q) Why your Company choose V model for testing? And what is the main difference between V model and Waterfall model?

68. How do you confirm if your script is scalable, maintainable and portable.


69. What is Traceability Matrix ? Who prepares this document ?


70. what is non-regression testing? what is the difference between regression and non-regression testing? what is the need for non-regression testing any example?

71. . Realising you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first?


72. what is backward compatibility testing ?


73. What is the difference between Client Server Testing and Web Testing?


74. How do you scope out the size of the testing effort?


75. What do you do (with the project tasks) when the schedule fails?


76. How do you test if we have minimal or no documentation about the product?


77. What is the responsibility of programmers vs QA?


78. How you will begin to improve the QA process?


79. How do you know when your code has met specifications?


80. Describe your personal software development process.


81. What should QA require of Development?


82. What is the definition of test conditions?Thanks


83. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?


84. What is a "Good Tester"?


85. How do you perform regression testing?


86. How do you estimate staff requirements?


87. What development model should programmers and the test group use?


88. What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?


89. What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what would you change?


90. Define each of the following and explain how each relates to the other: Unit, System, and Integration testing


91. Difference between SRS and FRS?


92. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?


93. Do you support automated testing? Why?


94. What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?


95. How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from those problems?


96. What would you like to do five years from now?


97. How to generate Test estimates and risk analysis?


98. What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?


99. how can smart identifiers used to capture the object details?


100. what is the difference between frs (functional requirement specification) and srs (software requirement specification) ?

 
101. In case anybody cares, here are the questions that I will be asking:


102. What is Scenarios in term of testing


103. when do we apply equivalence partioning tecnique and boundary value analysis,Tell me with some example?


104. What is the Use Equivalence class partitioning


105. Would you like to work in a team or alone, why?


106. How can you use technology to solve problem?


107. Describe the role that QA plays in the software lifecycle.


108. What are your strengths?


109. What are your greatest weaknesses?


110. Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.


111. What is unit testing?


112. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?


113. When should testing be stopped?


114. What is software quality assurance?


115. What is quality assurance?


116. What type of metrics would you use?


117. Difference between Efficiency and Effectiveness?


118. What is visual source safe?


119. What is a test data?Give examples


120. Low level recording.


121. Let me know Quality control and Quality assurance ?Can you tell me about sanity and smoke testing and its diffrences


122. Write a Test Cases for Triangle types ?


123. waterfall model - execution and planning stage


124. What ways you followed for defect management?


125. How can we review the Test Plan document?


126. 1. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?2. What did you include in a test plan?3. Describe any bug you remember.4. What is the purpose of the testing?5. What do you like (not like) in this job?6. What is quality assurance?7. What is the difference between QA and testing?8. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?9. What is the role of QA in a development project?10. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?


127. Defination for TestPlan in IEEE format?


128. what is sandbox testing and how it is used


129. What is MS 6 Rule in Testing...?


130. What is meant by TRM in Testing?


131. what are the contents of Traceblity Matrix & Metrics for traceablity?


132. What is Mutation testing & when can it be done?


133. Apart from requirements traceability to test cases what is the other benefit of traceability matrix..Can anyone please let me know..This is urgent and it was asked in interview


134. What is meant by component testing? What is difference between Component Testing and Integration Testing


135. what are the levels(level-1,level-2........) of functional testing?


136. who are stakeholders


137. Yardi software pvt. Ltd. Software tester Questions

138. What is conventional testing and unconventional testing.


139. Who should you hire in a testing group and why?


140. What is the compatible testing?2. What is the difference between compatible testing and configuration testing?3. Write the test cases on a chair?


141. Very Important Question and helps the interviewer in identifying whether you are real time software tester or a FAKE. Give me a scenario in your project wherein you used all these three testing types : Regression testing, Retesting and Integration testing and also write a few test cases for all these tests.


142. How would you do the Integration and System Testing in Notepad....?


143. As a testing enginner..What is time you spent on each phase? Assume that you spend 6 months on a project, how many day it takes to build the test cases and execute the testcases.... Give a rough idea?


144. What are the benefits for an organization if CMM level certified?


145. what is the first job a testing engineer does in a company on first day of joining?


146. What would be a good stress test on an excel sheet which has defined number of rows and columns?


147. Explain how testing fits in V-model?

148. What is a test design exactly?


149. What is angile testing? ...


150. what is the diffrence between smoke testing & sanity testing

 
151. Is there any difference between Smoke Testing & Sanity Testing ?


152. what is the difference between smoke and sanity testing?


153. What is IEEE? Why is it important?


154. What is IEEE? Why is it important?


155. what is testplan?


156. What is Test stratergy & Test methodology?


157. What is the difference between Retesting and Regression Testing?


158. How do you go about testing a web application?


159. what is the difference b/w system testing and functional testing


160. whats the diff. between project and product?give an example to both.


161. Integration testing question:For example there are 4 modules i.e. A,B,C,DA out Put is Input to BB out Put is Input to CC out Put is Input to DThere is no alternative Flow If C module is not completed , 1. How can we perform integration testing On Module D?2. What are the possible Intergation Test cases for the above condition?


162. What is Asset Testing?


163. What is Release candidate?


164. How would you define Quality Assurance?


165. What is difference b/w Application and DLL


166. What is Black phase in SDLC


167. What is Registry


168. What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you worked?


169. which are the types of bug report?


170. What is Error seeding?


171. What are test closure documents?


172. How do you prepare Test Data for your current project?


173. How would you ensure 100% coverage of testing?


174. what is Clarify/ABP Integration-Integration between Clarify and Clients' Billing Platform.Please let me know asap.


175. What is the Performance testing; those can be done Manually & Automatically?


176. Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.


177. On what basis can we say that a product is thoroughly tested and handed over to customer?


178. In the Static Testing, what all can be tested?Can test condition, test case & test script help you in performing the static testing?


179. If testcases are excuted with existing requirements and the requirements are frequently changing, what steps fot be taken for the test completion ?


180. what is test Strategy...what is it relation with test plan and test design...


181. Please explain a testing strategy


182. I was asked in an Interview"Is CMM(Capability Maturity Model) part of Quality Assurance or Quality Control?"Thanks in Advance,Shantanu


183. I had this question in interview.How do you test a cursor?


184. what is menat by exploratory testing?


185. Can any one tell what are the components of test cases. I faced this in one of my interview.


186. why do u like testing?.. y did u select this domain?. what do u like most in testing job?. how do u satisfy with this job?.


187. Can anyone tell me what is usability testing and in which stage it should be done ?


188. what is meant by thread and incremental testing?


189. What is checklist?


190. what is the diff. b/w template and doccument?


191. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.


192. when u test a web application in different browsers what difference u will find(i mean changes with application)


193. I had this question in interview you are finished the testing (There is no bug) and it was send to the client (UAT) for testing,the client finds a bug in its testing environment, client raised a question and said i found the bug.So my question is what is the valuble answer the tester should reply to client or test manager who is tested the application.


194. Regresion testing comes under which stage of V-Model


195. Are there any major difference between Agile Testing and Rapid Software Testing?


196. what is meant by waterfall model?What is advantage and disadvantage of waterfall model?


197. can u do 100% testing? can u make bug free product?


198. what is system integration testing? Does it fall under white box or black box?


199. How do you feel about cyclomatic complexity?


200. What is the difference b/w frame work,architecture and methadology in testing?I mean Define--what is frame work,architecture and methadology?

202. After getting a build,how it comes to test engineer.i.e configuring..plz explain the process


203. how would you test the field length of an input screen is correct?


204. what is banking domain and explain briefly?


205. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?


206. Does the estimation of time for the testing effort depend solely on the methodology used or are there some other factors involved?


207. How would you differentiaite between.. Bug and Defect and Failure and Error.


208. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?


209. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a process.


210. when would you use production data in a test environment?


211. Could someone please tell me what the differences are between test plans and cases with respect to integration and regression testing are? Thanks


212. define what poduct evaluation actually is with regards to testing? Thanks in advance


213. What is testing we are going to do when a New Build come to Testing Department (i mean whether it is smoke or sanity) and next test where r going to do please give with example?


214. Have you ever written test cases or did you just execute those written by others?


215. How many test cases will be written for a project(approximately)?


216. Has anyone done HR Data Validation and Reconciliation. And if U have, can you please explain it to me.


217. What are the contents in the Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Design?What is Test Approach? Where to included? Whether in Test plan or Test strategy? Please reply immediately


218. what is version control?(question asked to me in an interview)
219. What is globalisation testing?


220. what is nightly build?
221. what is the difference b/w CMM &CMMI?


222. what is SCADA systems, how they function, and how automated tools could be used to test their functionality.What is Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification and PQ


223. In 3 tier Architecture What are the factors should be considered for testing?


224. Can anyone site an example of the most complex query that you have come across in the real time scenarios?


225. What is the difference between useabliity testing and GUI testing?


226. At what stage of sdlc testing starts.


227. How involved where you with your Team Lead in writing the Test Plan?

228. what is base lining?


229. What is productivity/defect density/change management and their differences in testing terms?


230. wat is perturbation testing?


231. What you mean Domain Specific Testing? Testing is not Domain Specific?


232. What is criteria for enterence exit sign on sign off in qa


233. What is the definition of test procedure and does this differ from a test case?


234. How would you rate Previous Employer X to Previous Employer Y, who gave you the best opportunities?


235. What is meant by path testing?


236. Describe components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and for database products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams.


237. Why Boundary Value Analysis is more comprehensive than Equivalence Class Partioning?


238. what is test belt?


239. what is test design and how it is helpful before writing the test cases?


240. Does the development environment affect in any way black box testing is performed. Some people say yes but I don't see how it does.


241. What is a PLM domain or what will be domain of web based product?


242. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your opinion?


243. What is the difference between SRS(System requirement specification) and BRS(Business requirement specification)?


244. What is UAT testing.When it is to be done?


245. what is the difference b/w system testing & end-end testing?


246. What is the relationship between Use Case and Test Case?


247. what is test case?


248. What is migration testing?


249. What is the difference between System Testing and End-To-End Testing. Give at least 2 Examples.


250. How do u established link with requirements and test cases to do traceability matrix?

 

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