Testing Interview Questions

what is your question about?

Short answer: Neither of them. I cannot stress enough that one needs to understand the intention of the question. This is a tricky and misleading question and has prompted many incorrect answers. The...

Lead or Manager? please clarify

Alpha Test In software development, your alpha test, will be a test among yourselves (the teams) to confirm that your product works. Originally, the term alpha test meant the first phase of testing i...

Alpha Testing is done in the clients placeBeta Testing is done by selective group of users (Normal Users)For ex: Apps like Yahoo messenger, Firefox releases its beta version to users and get their fee...

To everyone who thinks the question was incorrectly framed: There exists Peer-to-Peer (P-2-P) of testing devised out of necessity (like few types of testing) by medium to large product development co...

Peer to Peer Testing..testing conducted between institutions. For eg: Money sent from one institution is received and vice versa. Checking the entire system works as expected.

High Severity Low Priority - Page after you click the login button crashes or page not found error. Its high severe, but low priority coz priority one would be login page working fine. Low Severity Hi...

Look like some of the combinations do not have examples.. Medium priority low severity bug: Let suppose, the application under test (AUT) is a social security (yes this little detail will remove any ...

Site does not allow me to click the question so Im answering to this question with limited understanding. I think you may be asking either about programming or automation testing and therefore, this ...

Smoke vs sanity testing: Both smoke and sanity testing are used to ensure a build is stable to handle further testing. But, smoke test is performed on fresh/new build to entire system to ensure it is ...

There is no entry or exit criteria for smoke and sanity Testing. Smoke testing is first testing type done by tester after the build is complete and to check if the build is ready for further testing. ...

Let me pose a counter question - Do have an understand of what is the purpose of SharePoint site? If yes, you will be able to answer the question all by yourself :) For anyone who does not know what ...

1) How to add user
2) How to remove user
3) Restore site content database
4) How to import site
5) How to backup/restore site
6) How to get managed paths
7) Export/Move site

Bug is nothing but find out the mismatch between the Actual result and expected results

Any functionality not working as per the requirement of the customer and customer need is a failure product. The meaning for the words Bug, Incident ,Issue , Defect , Failure, Fault are the same . A computer bug is an error flaw ,mistake in a computer programs that produces an incorrect result .

According to my opinion , Testing is the backbone for the software industry. Because, every s/w product release is done after testing only.

By doing testing itself we can judge that the product is free of defects/bugs, and also for the customers satisfaction.

Both are great in their respective ways but i usually think being a testing engineer requires more skill to handle different situations.They should have the ability to say no to others with valid reas...

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Yep, the correct answer is e) Different audience.  The test plan is a single document that will be suitable for all audiences who need to know the overall test strategy.

INPUT Criteria : Defining the different inputs required for different phases of the testing is called Input Criteria. Exit Criteria : The different deliverable s in the testing at different phases in...

Test matrics is a mechanism to know the effectiveness of testing process. Its a feedback mechanism to improve the testing process. In test matrics we collect the following parameters, 1. Defect age 2....

It would not be who can select browser for testing. I would perform testing as per FSD mentions. If nothing is mentioned then i would select the most commonly used browser that is IE which is widely used worldwide

mozilla firefox,chrome because widely used

Here is a link for pension application user guide which has entire application structure.. you can get the application concept and from the screens you can get test cases.
http://www.mass.gov/dor/docs/cse/programs/icpip/pipguidepublicretirement.pdf

If the development and testing happens onsite, there is no communication gap.

Sorry friend....white box and black box testing are types of testing not testing techniques

Functional Testing techniques: 1. Specification based (Black box) • Equivalence partitioning • Boundary values analysis • State transition testing • Cause-effect graphing • Decision tables ...

Quality assurance is process oriented
Quality control is a product oriented
output of quality control is input to the quality assurance

QA is process oriented, it’s like spreading butter on toast...you spread quality across the SDLC. It’s building checkpoints across the path. And each checkpoint has exit criteria and entrance crit...

Interface testing :-To test the data transaction between more than one application

Interface Testing:-Interface testing is nothing but (GUI) testing. Integration Testing:-In this testing combine all tested module and testing these module are working correctly with each other or pa...

RTM maps requirements with test case ids.

The Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) is used to map requirements to test cases in order to ensure all requirements are covered. 

Here as per customer requirement, we generate the data with the help of design techniques (BVA,ECP)

4. Names definition and structure of all real world entities of application