Testing Basics Interview Questions

Should be a good communicator
should have enough knowledge on which he/she is working
should have guts to say no
should be practical and optimistic
should have the ability to think beyond the normal

Must be aggressive on finding defect
Must have strong desire for quality
Must use tact and diplomacy to maintain a cooperative relationship with developers.
Must be able to communicate with technical and non technical people.

Types of Review:

there are five which are as follows.

1.Self study review
2. Context review
3. Historical review
4. Theoretical review
5. Integrate review

Types of review
Formal and Informal.
They may be Technical or Managerial
Technical review may be Inspection and Walk-through

System Testing: It should be done by the testers. During this testing process tester will verify the correctness of the system. System testing is implemented by various testing techniques. 1.GUI testi...

To put in a nutshell, Functional Testing is software design based testing; UAT is requirements based testing. System Test is done as by IT testing team and they need to certify that the application c...

Testing is the performed by tester with the intent of finding a bug in an application. Upon finding a bug, the tester will be reporting it to development team. Debugging is the act of fixing the bugs...

Testing can and should be planned,designed and scheduled unlike debugging.Testing is done for known conditions whereas in debugging conditions are not known fully as the program or script is under development.

Regression testing is done to check the bug fixes or the changes on modified application build is not disturbing the existing functionality of an application.

Re-Testing is done to check on the same build with multiple data sample to check the robustness (stable enough) of the application

Retesting/Confirmation Testing is done to check whether the Failed tc/Failed Functionality is working fine after the fix. Regression Testing is done to check whether any of the other functionality is...

High severity:required functionality is missing but testing can continue workarounds are done but product can not deliver without fixing
Low priority:bugs impacts minor component of the employees work and work around has been implimented.

If I want to access yahoo ...and yahoo is spelled wrong than it is High priority and Low Severity and If everything is correctly spelled but I am not able to access the application For ex. if I entere...

BVA:To check size or range of i/p field.
EQA:To check type of i/p or o/p field.

Equivalence class analysis:  The process of discovering the same attributes across testable items in order to minimize the number of items to be tested.  For example, a requirement for ...

Test case is a set of conditions we write for which we know the expected output.It may be negative or positive. For ex: (To enter username) case: ...

Test Cases are collection of instructions which are recorded only for verifying some certain functionality.

These are derived from test condition.

And Test scripts tells about which test case will be executed first means the sequence.

Test scripts are otherwise called as test procedure.

Bugs are classified as

1. Feature bugs
2. Data bugs
3. Coding bugs
4. Interface,integration and system bugs
5. Test and design bugs
6. Structural bugs
* Control and sequence bugs
* Logic bugs
* Processing bugs
* Initialization bugs
* Data flow and anomalies

Bug is nothing but, while executing a test case if we found any unexpected result which is not matching to expected result. This is as per Tester view If a developer is performing the unit testing, ...

Functional testing (also known as black-box testing), is a software testing approach in which: 1. the tester will have a user perspective in mind, 2. not knowing and doesn't mind how the program work...

Structural testing is a white box testing. where a tester looks into the code and performs the testing.Functional testing is a black  box testing. where a tester  performs testing without lo...

@ wmes

You have hit the nail on its head! Couldn't agree with you more..Your answer should be the best answer.

As someone who has defined and developed the Beta Test process for a large organization, I felt I should chime in. The simplistic answer is that Alpha Testing is internal, Beta Testing is external. ...

Wow! Never heard of such question!

One question to you: where and how did you come up with this question.

No one cares about the # pages in a document. All you and everyone should be care about is the "test strategy" to best test the application.

The answer to this question varies between companies and even divisions within companies.  In my company, the test strategy is typically between 5 and 10 pages.  It is a high level...

@ Sarvanan and others who agree with him.. Your answer is not correct entirely. "The VEE represents the sequence of steps in a project life cycle development. It describes the activities and results...

V Model is a graphical representation of the systems development lifecycle. It is very similar to the Classic Waterfall Model. In V-Model both development and testing activity will done
parallely.

@Kalayan_M : It would be great if you can explain terms by using examples. We all understand concepts well when examples are used. Clearly, you do not understand domain or how to test it. You just se...

Domain refers to a body of knowledge in a particular field or industry.Domain testing are testing activities that require knowledge of an industry's domain.  For example, testing a banking ap...

As "kurtz182" rightly mentioned; test passes are test iterations. QA runs a group of test cases or just one big single test cases to test a feature. This "run" is called test iteration or test run. ...

'Test pass' is nothing but a 'test cycle' or 'test iteration' in the Execution phase.

All these kind of questions stem from not having real-time experience. Trust me when you join a company all these will vanish from your mind! Manual or automation, you as QA have to log the bug. It ...

Generally Bugs are reported with the help of Bug Tracking tools ( Like bugzilla, TeamTrack, Test Director ,Quality Centre or any other such tools)

You can also have your organization built in tools.

or you can use excel sheets also.

@rhkvarma24 So, according to you if I find a spelling mistake in some content, I should be creating a test case and then log it as a bug? um.. you have do to some serious learning and home work befor...

When we find a defect which is not related to Test Case, we will prepare the Test Case and raise the bug..... Bcoz the bug in the Bug Report has to trace the Test Case.

@ kurtz182 The question is about "test" priorities and not "bug" priorities. Many of the organizations that have high quality gates set have started the trend of prioritizing the test cases. Your ans...

sorry forgot to add..

..all the test cases with P1 AKA high priority will be smoke tests. Sanity tests will include some of these P1 test cases based on the affected features.

Business requirements doc and functional requirements doc. Business requirements details the high-level requirements from business standpoint. So some of these would eventually become transactions du...

The answer to this question depends on the industry, company, and/or project.  In my industry and company, the performance criteria are furnished in the application's specification docum...

Requirements as you think need not be the commonly used term in IT. It can be anything that will help you test the application. So the minimum requirement to start testing from me would be a demo of t...

The answer to this question depends on the type of testing to be performed.  I will interpret this question quite literally and answer it this way:  Exploratory testing requires minimum reso...