Testing Interview Questions and Answers || Software Testing Interview Questions and Answers for freshers
What’s Ad Hoc Testing ?
A testing where the tester tries to break the software by randomly trying
functionality of software.
What’s the Accessibility Testing ?
Testing that determines if software will be usable by people with
disabilities.
What’s the Alpha Testing ?
The Alpha Testing is conducted at the developer sites and in a controlled
environment by the end user of the software
What’s the Beta Testing ?
Testing the application after the installation at the client place.
What is Component Testing ?
Testing of individual software components (Unit Testing).
What’s Compatibility Testing ?
In Compatibility testing we can test that software is compatible with
other elements of system.
What is Concurrency Testing ?
Multi-user testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing
the same application code, module or database records. Identifies and measures
the level of locking, deadlocking and use of single-threaded code and locking
semaphores.
What is Conformance Testing ?
The process of testing that an implementation conforms to the
specification on which it is based. Usually applied to testing conformance to a
formal standard.
What is Context Driven Testing ?
The context-driven school of software testing is flavor of Agile Testing
that advocates continuous and creative evaluation of testing opportunities in
light of the potential information revealed and the value of that information
to the organization right now.
What is Data Driven Testing ?
Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by externally
defined data values, maintained as a file or spreadsheet. A common technique in
Automated Testing.
What is Conversion Testing ?
Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing
systems for use in replacement systems.
What is Dependency Testing ?
Examines an application’s requirements for pre-existing software, initial
states and configuration in order to maintain proper functionality.
What is Depth Testing ?
A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
What is Dynamic Testing ?
Testing software through executing it. See also Static Testing.
What is Endurance Testing ?
Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with prolonged
execution.
What is End-to-End testing ?
Testing a complete application environment in a situation that mimics
real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network
communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or systems if
appropriate.
What is Exhaustive Testing ?
Testing which covers all combinations of input values and preconditions
for an element of the software under test.
What is Gorilla Testing ?
Testing one particular module, functionality heavily.
What is Installation Testing ?
Confirms that the application under test recovers from expected or
unexpected events without loss of data or functionality. Events can include
shortage of disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out
conditions.
What is Localization Testing ?
This term refers to making software specifically designed for a specific
locality.
What is Loop Testing ?
A white box testing technique that exercises program loops.
What is Mutation Testing ?
Mutation testing is a method for determining if a set of test data or
test cases is useful, by deliberately introducing various code changes (‘bugs’)
and retesting with the original test data/cases to determine if the ‘bugs’ are
detected. Proper implementation requires large computational resources
What is Monkey Testing ?
Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here
and there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.
What is Positive Testing ?
Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as “test to pass”.
See also Negative Testing.
What is Negative Testing ?
Testing aimed at showing software does not work. Also known as “test to
fail”. See also Positive Testing.
What is Path Testing ?
Testing in which all paths in the program source code are tested at least
once.
What is Performance Testing ?
Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component
with specified performance requirements. Often this is performed using an
automated test tool to simulate large number of users. Also know as “Load
Testing”.
What is Ramp Testing ?
Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
What is Recovery Testing ?
Confirms that the program recovers from expected or unexpected events
without loss of data or functionality. Events can include shortage of disk
space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out conditions.
What is the Re-testing testing ?
Retesting- Again testing the functionality of the application.
What is the Regression testing ?
Regression- Check that change in code have not effected the working
functionality
What is Sanity Testing ?
Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to
determine if its basically operational.
What is Scalability Testing ?
Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test
gracefully handles increases in work load.
What is Security Testing ?
Testing which confirms that the program can restrict access to authorized
personnel and that the authorized personnel can access the functions available
to their security level.
What is Stress Testing ?
Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the
stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal
operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the
results.
What is Smoke Testing ?
A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software
work. Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new piece of
hardware for the first time and considering it a success if it does not catch
on fire.
What is Soak Testing ?
Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time. For
example, running several times more transactions in an entire day (or night)
than would be expected in a busy day, to identify and performance problems that
appear after a large number of transactions have been executed.
What’s the Usability testing ?
Usability testing is for user friendliness.
What’s the User acceptance testing
?
User acceptance testing is determining if software is satisfactory to an
end-user or customer.
What is Test bed on software Testing ?
a. It is a document which is prepared before going to execute the test
cases .
b. Preparation for test execution i,e pre-requisites is called Test Bed .
c. In test bed document we define all Test data , input and output
criteria, software and hardware requirement , operating system and version
,System Environment , parameters defined for each phase , test scripts and
other supporting documents which is required for test execution.
What is the difference between
Test matrix and Trace ability matrix ?
Test matrix - The objective of test matrix is to capture the plan ,
actual quality , effort , resources and time required to capture all the phases
of software testing .
Traceability matrix -The mapping between test cases and client/customer
requirements is known as Trace ability matrix .
b. It is used to check all the requirements are covered or not .
What is difference between System
Testing and End To End Testing ?
System Testing- upon completion of integration testing , the test team
will begin system testing . In this a complete system is configured in control
environment to validate it's accuracy and completeness .
b. The objective of system testing is to verify that the system is
complete function and robust enough for user interaction and use .
End To End testing : It Validates the software system as well as
interconnected sub-systems
b. It checks end to end process flow like All interfaces, back end
systems will be considered for testing .
What is Test plan and describe the
main components of Test plan ?
Test plan is a document which explains the test strategy , timelines and
available resources and detailed view .
Test plan contains :
a. Objective
b. Scope
c. Approach
d. resources
e. Entry criteria and Exit criteria
f. use cases
g. test cases
i. risk assumptions
j. Software and hardware requirements
k. Project milestones
What is Test scenario ?
Test scenario is nothing but a way of process (a feature gonna used) or a
complete work flow .
Describe the attributes of use cases ?
The attributes are -
a. Preconditions
b. Post conditions
c. Descriptions
d. Primary flow
e. Objective
f. After native flow and business rules interactions, implementations and
etc..
What is the test components to be delivered ?
Test deliverable are-
a. QA test plan
b. Test cases document
c. Automation script
d. Trace ability matrix
e. Test result
f. Test report
g. Release notes
What is web server ?
It handles client side validations as well as server side validations and
helps to deliver web contents that can be access through the internet protocol.
E.g - Microsoft IIS
Apache web server
Java web server
What is Pilot testing ?
Intention to take ownership of the
project .
b. basically in pilot testing ,there would be group of testers who
perform testing with the intention of taking project from the client .
What is Security testing ?
It is performed to check whether
there is any information leakage incense by encrypting the application or using
wide range of software and hardware etc..
