Testing General Interview Questions
Can anyone tell me what is usability testing and in which stage it should be done ?
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...
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 ?
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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.
The best rated answer is not the best! It doesn't explain anything.
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
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).
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.
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...
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?
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...
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.
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 ...
conventional testing begins in Testing phase but where as unconventional testing begins from Initial phase
What is difference between authentication and authorization?
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...
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?
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?
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?
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...
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?
What are the key challenges of testing?
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
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?
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...
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
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
Which of the following is the formal verification method.........1)structure induction 2)progressive verification3error verification 4)none
Progressive verification
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 (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
Odd numbers are calculating wrong , adding 1 extra after calculation.
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.
May I suggest Wikipedia.
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...
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 ] ------>
The Process means coducting a step by step activities to reach the final output.
What are all the basic elements in a defect report?
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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.
(3&4) is the right answer
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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 ...
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