Testing interview questions links:

link: http://www.careerride.com/manual-testing-interview-questions.aspx
http://www.gcreddy.com/2012/05/software-testing-faq.html
What is benchmark testing?
--use in performance testing (not manual testing question)
What is verification and validation?
---verification: checking against req, validation: checking the func
Explain Branch Coverage and Decision Coverage.
---related to white box testing (unit testing)
What is difference between Retesting and Regression testing?
--Regression:new change, has it impacted the existing functionality
--ReTesting: Repeating the tests
What is Mutation testing & when can it be done?
--introducing a bug intentionally check if it can be found
What is severity and priority of bug? Give some example.
--severity: crticlity of the bug (Critical, High, Medium, Low)--decided by teste
r
priority: priority of the fix (p1,p2,p3,p4)--prioritized by lead or PM
Explain bug leakage and bug release.
bug leakage: missing the bug. Unable to find the bug
bug release: fixing the bug.
What is alpha and beta testing?
What is Monkey testing?
--Intention to perform negative testing
Testing without any objective and references.
What is test driver and test stub?
What is random testing?
Doing selective testing.can use selected testcases and not all.
What is Agile Testing?
Describe Use Case Testing.
--Testing based on user scenarios.
What is the purpose of test strategy?
--test strategy is the approach of testing
Explain bug life cycle.
cycle from when a bug is found till it is closed.
What is Error guessing and Error seeding?
error guessing: guessing where an error in the application can occur
error seeding: intentinally introducing an error (same as mutation testing)
Explain Compatibility testing with an example.
testing the application on various environments (for ex testing with various OS,

browsers, devices)
What is Test Harness?
--Test Bed (all the test data and cases)
Explain Statement coverage. (related to unit testing)
What are the types of testing?
functional & non-functional (performance, security)
Explain User acceptance testing.
--testong done by end user
What should be done after a bug is found?
--it should be locked and reported to developer
What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all?
--tester a blocker issue.
What are the advantages of waterfall model?
--small projects.requirements are freezed.
What is Rapid Application Development model (RAD)?
--appllication is developed rapidly starting with small modlues and testing is a
lso done rapidly.
What are the advantages of black box testing?
What is software review?
--review of the software development. It is done at all the phases of sdlc.
What is reverse engineering?---done by developers. experience testers also can d
o.
What is exploratory testing?
--detailed testing component by component
What is SRS and BRS document?
Can you explain V model in manual testing?-- (important)
--each phase of sdlc is is defined with a testing type.
What is an inspection in software testing?
--it is part of audit
What is Cyclomatic Complexity?--part of white box testing
Q. What is the most challenging situation you had during testing?
Q. How to perform testing if there are no documents?
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ons
Q. What is Risk Based Testing?--imp
Ans. This type of testing is done when testing timeline is less.
Identifying the critical functionality in the system then deciding the orders in
which these functionality to be tested and applying testing.

Q What is Requirement Tracibility Matrix (RTM)---Imp

Ans: Tracing the requirements against the testcases.
Q What is Impact Analysis ?
Ans: Analysing the impact of the existing software before any changes are made.D
one by dev lead and PM.
Q. What is an invalid bug?
Ans: Any bug that is not as per the requirement.
Q. When can you say testing is completed?
Ans: 1. When all the requirements are implemented
2. When all the reported bugs are fixed.
Q. What is a Known Issue?
Ans: When a bug cannot be fixed and it is not very critical, then it is specifie
d as known issue.
Automation Testing Tools:
functional testing tools: QTP, Selenium, RationalRobot etc
Non-Functional tools: performance tools: loadrunner, JMeter etc
Q. What are test metrics?
Ans: Measuring the quality. forex:
no of testcases written per hr
no of testcases exec per hr
no of bugs found per module
no of bugs skipped per module