Testing Basics Interview Questions

@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...

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..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.

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...

None have addressed the last part of the question. I think Ginette meant "objective" of test plan and not objectif. Test plan objectives: 1. Defining the activities required to prepare for and conduc...

Q1:  What are the main elements of a test plan?a) Introduction- Purpose- Product description- System architectureb) Scope - Test coverage- Features to be tested (in scope)- Features not to be tes...

This is a very good question! Let me start of by differentiating between BRD and FRD/FSD. A 'business requirements' document details requirements desired by client that are necessary for their busin...

Smoke Testing is done by developers where as Sanity Testing is conducted by Test Engineers.

Both are conducted for same purpose ie to check basic functionalities of a program or module.

In smoke testing and sanity testing we try to find that application is testable or not . we try to find any blocker bug. It means smoke & sanity testing are same

Never heard of "non-regression" testing. Can you please include specifics, so that people like you who are looking for more answers can have their questions answered. :)

Regression testing : The focus of regression testing is on retesting the software to check if new defects are not introduced into the software product after certain defects have been fixed.

Retesting : It means checking whether the bug is fixed or not

For Password.
>=8 <=32 characters, must include: letters, symbole and number.
you can create a test case with a list 8 tc.

If i am wrong please let me know.

thanks,
michelle

The answer to this question depends on how the company wants to treat the password.  The first thing any good tester will do is refer to the requirements and specifications.Let's assume the r...

Quality assurance measures the quality of process used to create a quality product.Quality control measures quality of a product........

in which defects are identified, isolated and subjected to rectification , till the process is continuous the product is defect free in order to produce a quality product and hence customer sanctification

Test condition; simple!

Test condition can be a feature, piece of functionality, or anything that you intend to verify. In simple terms the goal of a test case.
Let's suppose you wrote a test case for yahoo mail authentication. In this case, test condition is the login functionality.

Test Case Id Number is the most Imp,Without which you cannot identify its Requirements and its traceability

System testing is testing the whole system which comprise of operating system,file system,database management system  and hardwares etc.The objective of system testing is verification.Integration...

System Testing: Testing the Complete Integrated system that it complies to Requirements specification is called System Testing. Under system testing the entire system is tested against its Functional ...

Test cases written by one team member will be reviewed by other team member of the same level.

peer review is called as Buddy testing

Yes it is "Both of the above"

Both of the above

May I suggest wikipedia! You need to do a lot of reading.

In water fall model, the customer requirements are very clear, so verification is enough, validation is not req. The water fall model and V-model are suitable for small type of projects.

In the V-model the customer req. are not clear so, both verification and validation is needed.

Sanity testing is similar to smoke testing. In Sanity Testing we will only go a quick test to see whether the application or build is sink with the install enviornment. This testing is to make sure we can start functional testing.  

Sanity test is similar to smoke testing, here we do indepth testing to see whether build is sane or insane for further testing. Here we wont write any test cases.

Unit Testing comes under White Box Technique. Developers do the unit testing

unit testing comes under white box testing

Relation between Test Cases, Requirements and Defects
*Test Cases is designed according to the Requirements.
*Defects are raised on executing the Test cases, which the expected outcome doesn't meet with the actual.

Here's the relationship between requirements, test cases and defects:  Test cases are authored to test conformance to requirements.  Therefore, any defect found during the execution of a test case indicates nonconformance to a requirement. 

mathan_vel and kurtz182 have given correct answers for 'test cycle.' It is the iteration not the test life cycle!

Test Cycle- Refers as the Test Run/Test Iteration. The Life span between the new build received for testing to the test result reports to the Stack holders/Client. Test Cycle is a a sub of Testing Pro...

Re-testing is testing done to enure that the defect fixed is no longer present in the code.Re-gression Testing is ensuring that the fixed defect didn't resulted in the another defect. So, it is mo...

hi
Testing methodology is the approach you are using for 
testing. it is applicable to both SDLC and STLC

different models are used for this purpose:
- Waterfall model
- V Model
- Spiral Model
and many more