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Plz tell me ans 7. 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...

Asked By: sajeeb | Asked On: Aug 23rd, 2006

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

I agree with "jyotsna" and "Dharmakrishnan." First things first: QA alone does not assign severity or priority at the time of logging a bug. BA decides the priority and dev/QA decide the severity of ...

Answered by: kalyan212 on: Mar 7th, 2008

To my knowledge i thing...

adhoc testing is done in their oun way with out any proper documention,

if he finds the bug which crashes the system he should keep the status as
high SEV &high Priority

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

Asked By: Magesh | Asked On: Sep 25th, 2006

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

As we all know catching issues/gaps/bugs early on in the project costs much less than testing at a later time. As the name suggests usability testing is testing to ensure the application flow and requ...

Answered by: Laminfaty on: Apr 23rd, 2008

Usability testing is a black box testing performed in the User Acceptance testing phase. It is done likely by then end-user to see how if he/she interact with the system facilly/easy and friendly.

What is the alpha testing and beta testing ?

Asked By: hari92909 | Asked On: Oct 12th, 2010

Star Read Best Answer

Editorial / Best Answer

Answered by: rtnaresh

Member Since Jan-2011 | Answered On : Mar 20th, 2011

Alpha and beta testing come under functional testing.

Alpha testing: after completion of the system, the product vendor come to the producer's place and test the whole system in any manner.

Beta testing: after delivered the system to the vendor. the vendor have themself some specific customers. they give the s/w to them to test in real time manner.

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

The best rated answer is not the best! It doesn't explain anything.

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

Please read Bill's answer (last but second) in this thread : http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/67562

Execute 2000 test cases in 2 days

Asked By: evsbhanuprakash | Asked On: Mar 3rd, 2011

There are 2000 test cases to be executed with only 2 days time, how will you accomplish this? It was given that the client wants all the test cases to be executed within the last date given (which is 2 days).

Answered by: Bina Sarmah on: Oct 13th, 2011

Since it's rarely possible to test every possible aspect of an application, evrisk analysis is appropriate to most software development project. The checklist should include answers to the following ...

Define verification and validation. Explain the differences between the two.

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 21st, 2005

Answered by: Vivek on: Sep 29th, 2011

Verification - Are we building the right product as per customer requirements Validation - is the product built is right in lines with customer requirements Verification example - Building a weight m...

Answered by: nidhi on: Sep 23rd, 2011

verification is the process of testing of specification ,requirement,test plan ,coding ,this testing is done by inspection ans walk through .. and validation is the process of actual testing of final product,this testing is done by doing factional testing, regression testing,smoke testing etc

What is meant by scalability testing? What is the tool used for this testing?

Asked By: abi | Asked On: Feb 15th, 2006

Answered by: kumar on: Sep 20th, 2011

the testing of a software application for measuring its capability to scale up or scale out in terms of any of its non-functional capability be it the user load supported, the number of transaction...

Answered by: santoshkumar pvh on: May 2nd, 2006

The objective of scalability testing is to find the maximum number of users a system can handle. The approach we follow for this testing is by using performance tools.

What is conventional testing and unconventional testing.

Asked By: gattu_raviraj | Asked On: Feb 26th, 2007

Answered by: Vanitha on: Sep 14th, 2011

Conventional Testing is a sort of testing in which the test engineers will check the developed application or it's related parts are working according to the requirements or not from the coding Phase ...

Answered by: vk1978 on: Mar 25th, 2009

conventional testing begins in Testing phase but where as unconventional testing begins from Initial phase

What is difference between authentication and authorization?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2005

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

Authentication is the process that allows an application to verify that a person (or another application, smart card, and so on) is the one that it claimed to be when connecting with it. Authorizatio...

Answered by: Ankit Singh on: Sep 7th, 2011

Authentication is the process of identifying users based on their credentials, i.e. user names and passwords. Authorization is the process of determining whether an authenticated user is allowed to ac...

Who in the company is responsible for quality?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 14th, 2005

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

Be it an IT shop, a restaurant, manufacturing facility, bank anything, quality is everyone's responsibility.

Example: Lets say you live with your family. Isn't cleaning and proper maintenance of the home everyone's responsibility?

Answered by: Loughing on: Aug 18th, 2011

For a manufacturer, every worker in producing are responsible for quality. while QA and QC team get the last right to say yes or no for quality

What is the difference between qa and qc?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2005

Answered by: Irfan Ahmed on: Aug 17th, 2011

Quality Assurance: 1. Quality assurance meant for developing, organizing the best quality process 2. QA is process related 3. QA focuses on building in quality and hence preventing defects 4. QA: D...

Answered by: Jolie on: Mar 5th, 2009

Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development and/or maintenance process is adequate to ensure a system will meet its objectives. Quality Control: A set of activities ...

How will you test and commission an eleVATor?

Asked By: wahba2412 | Asked On: Aug 15th, 2011

What are the key challenges of testing?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 15th, 2005

Answered by: Siva Sankar on: Aug 11th, 2011

Following are some challenges while testing software

1.Requirements are not freezed.

2.Application is not testable.

3.Ego problems.

4.Defect in defect tracking system

5.Miscommunication or no Communication

6.Bug in software development tools.

7.Time pressures

Answered by: surendra_kumar on: Jun 10th, 2008

The main Challenge for any testing environment will be obviously to Test the application for its perfect functionality according to the requirement spcifications and well within the acceptable time li...

What is the purpose of the testing?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 5th, 2005

Answer posted by radhika on 2005-05-23 17:50:13: the purpose of testing can be quality assurance, verification and validation, or reliability estimation. Testing can be used as a generic metric as well. Correctness testing and reliability testing are two major areas of testing. Software testing is a...

Answered by: F Vernor on: Aug 10th, 2011

To measure & validate the delivered product against the agreed business requirements and identify gaps, faults or unforeseen / unexpected behaviour.

To ensure the product is fit for purpose

Answered by: eversajid on: May 10th, 2010

The purpose of testing is to run application or system with intention to find out the bugs (Functions that do not perform as expected).

Which of the following is the formal verification method

Asked By: ranu agrawal | Asked On: Dec 23rd, 2007

Which of the following is the formal verification method.........1)structure induction 2)progressive verification3error verification 4)none

Answered by: Prasad on: Jul 28th, 2011

Progressive verification

Answered by: dilton_dalton on: Dec 30th, 2007

A formal method is one in which everyone involved wears a tuxedo.Only kidding.A formal method is one that is defined (either is writing or graphically) and leaves evidence that it was done (i.e. the m...

Identify the bug

Asked By: vineshreddy | Asked On: Jan 14th, 2008

Identify the bug (not the errors) and write a description:calculator performs this operation 1*1=2, 2*2=4, 3*3=10, 4*4=16, 5*5=26

Answered by: bina on: Jul 27th, 2011

Odd numbers are calculating wrong , adding 1 extra after calculation.

Answered by: kurtz182 on: Jan 2nd, 2010

The defect is:

Multiplying odd numbers adds one to its total.  Multiplying even numbers works fine.

Describe to me the software development life cycle as you would define it.

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 21st, 2005

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

May I suggest Wikipedia.

Answered by: kurtz182 on: Dec 29th, 2009

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) refers to the entire software development process from the inception of a project to its conclusion.  There are many variations of SDLC described by differe...

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

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 28th, 2005

Answered by: kurtz182 on: Dec 29th, 2009

A process is a set of activities that work together to achieve a common result.   A process can be represented by a box with a single input coming into it and a single output going out of it. 

Example:     ------> [ process ] ------>

Answered by: MNSavanur on: Mar 28th, 2008

The Process means coducting a step by step activities to reach the final output.

What are all the basic elements in a defect report?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 14th, 2005

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 30th, 2011

Basic elements in a bug report: - Bug title - severity - priority - Bug screenshot/video - Features/modules bug relates to - log files if necessary - SQL query (if it is an integration bug) - Steps t...

Answered by: mathan_vel on: Sep 17th, 2010

1) Defect ID2) Reference Test Case3) Project name4) Detected in Release5) Priority6) Severity7) Status8) Assigned To9) Submitted by10) Submitted Date11) Testing Phase12) Environment Details13) Descrip...

What is a show stopper?

Asked By: Bharati | Asked On: Nov 4th, 2005

Answered by: kurtz182 on: Dec 26th, 2009

Generally, a show-stopper is a condition that is serious enough to halt an activity, program, or process until it is resolved.  In software development, the specific meaning of "show-stopper...

Answered by: pavan on: Aug 5th, 2006

Show stopper is nothing but stopping the release at the eleventh hour.

it can happen that at the time of release a tester finds a najor bug which will affect the application badly. at this time a tester can stop the release.

let me know if i am wrong

pavanshahapur@gmail.com

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...

Asked By: binduporwal | Asked On: May 18th, 2006

Answered by: ch.bhaskar.mca on: May 2nd, 2011

3&4 option is correct one...

In regression will be conducted on every build, and we will find the high risk areas and where the code has been changed.



Answered by: mathan_vel on: Sep 16th, 2010

(3&4) is the right answer

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