QA is more a preventive thing, ensuring quality in the company and therefore the product rather than just testing the product for software bugs TESTING means "quality control" QUALITY CONTROL measures the quality of a product QUALITY ASSURANCE... Read More

First of all the processes should be such that there is minimal dependency on a person. I would always have a back up testing resource though he may be in a different team but atleast he would have some knowledge about what the application is, where... Read More

It is not possible to test any product completely. We can test major funcitionalities of the application which are most visible to user and critical parts in the product. Read More

When the test manager is confident that the application will perform as expected in the production environment. This confidence is derived by analysis conducted on: a)Deadlines (release deadlines, testing deadlines, etc.) are met b)Test cases... Read More

Functional Testing Testing the features and operational behavior of a product to ensure they correspond to its specifications. Testing that ignores the internal mechanism of a system or component and focuses solely on the outputs generated in... Read More

We can catch simple bugs like GUI ,small functional Bugs during unit testing.This reduces testing time.Overall this saves project time.If developer doesn't catch this type of bugs,this will come to integration testing part and if it... Read More

Thankz.What is STLC?Your Diagram is good to understand but please explain me is there any interlink between these levels.is it a simultaneous process? Read More

raceability matrix/ Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) This is a document prepared to map the requirements from the SRS with the test cases at each level of testing like unit, integration & system. It assists in kepling track which... Read More

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... Read More

testreport -----during test execution testengg are reporting mistaches to development team in an IEEE format that is called testreport testlog------expected output is called testlog which is in the form of document. Read More

A fault in a program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner. Read More

Strengths are I'm well motivated, well-organized, detail-oriented team memberI've got a strong desire to succeed, and I'm always ready and willing to learn new information and skills. And about my weakness, I'm always ready to... Read More

Methodology 1- Spiral methodology 2-waterfall methodology.these two are old methods. 3-Rational unified processing.this is from I B M.and 4-rapid application development.this is from Microsoft office. Read More

Exploratory or ad hoc testing should be done. This covers the least basic functionalities. Read More

Testing should done along with development process.That is what Spiral SDLC is talking about.In V model,testing and development phases are performing parallel.In that aspect Testing fits in V model Read More

there is no word like non regression, but it means normal testing of an application.. so normal testing is testing the application. regression testing is to check whether the old functionality is not affected by the new modifications ,,,,,, Read More

The bug report contains following elements these are 1.bug description 2.founded by 3. severity of the bug 4.status of the bug 5.in which feature/module detected. 6.comments if bug deffered. Read More

integration testing is a process by which we are going to check the communication interface between the different modules.i used to perform integration testing when i checked whether the data inserted into one from should display in the other form... Read More

In negative testing, we check whether the application or system handles the exception properly or not. It is nothing but "Test to Break" testing. Read More

In brief a test plan should have the following sections in which the Methodology section will cover the test coverage Matrix with the approximate amount time expected to finish the test cases covered in this test plan. 1.Purpose 2.Scope 3.... Read More

CMM :- A module or guideline ?for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes?, developed by the Software Engineer Institute ... Read More

Good communication, writing and speaking skills especially English. Reporting, Analytical thinking, eye for detail, organizing, planning, Logical thinking. Ability to understand technical terms, testing methodologies to read functional, requirement,... Read More

 Question : What are the 5 points of the difference between configuration testing and compatibility testing? What is S-graph     Answers: Compatibility: -The suitability of products, processes or services for use... Read More

It is software that is reasonably bug-free and delivered on time and within the budget, meets the requirements and expectations and is maintainable. Read More

1)Defect Density 2)Defect Detection effectiviness 3)Test effectiviness 4)Tester Effectiviness 5)Defect Distribution 6)Bugs Severity Read More

Question : What is the Entry And Exit Criteria of a test plan ? 2.How to Automate your test plan       Answers: Entrance Criteria: These are pre-defined requirements which are required to be met before starting testing... Read More

A bug tracking system is used to report all errors at one central place for easy access and retriaval, both byu developer as well as tester. Since all the bugs are centrally filed, it becomes easy to update their status. The tracking can be... Read More

Once the intergartion testing is over and found that a minimum 80% of testcases are passed and the failed testcases are not show stoppers, then we can start performing system testing. Read More

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There are mainly 3 methods to Design a test case.. 1) Error Guessing ( May not be a Official Process ) 2) Equivalence Partitioning a) If the input is a Set of Value then take 1 valid and 2 invalid values b) If the input is a Range of... Read More

Procees is a mechanism that produces output for given input. Ex.Devoloping a software application is a process. Read More

Before doing the Actual Testing of the application , as per the Requirements of customer we can Expect some results. That is called Expected Result of that application.. and after actual testing we can compaire both actual result and Exprcted... Read More

For notepad we could check the following things 1. Creating a file(functionality & usability) 2. opening a file(functionality & usability) 3. deleting a file.(functionality & usability) 4. size of file(capacity of file) 5.... Read More

Severity:How bad the bug is and its influence on the software and the customer also called showstopper. Read More

testlog provides a chronological record of all relevant details about the execution of the testcaes. Read More

Black-box testing: It is not based on knowledge of internal design or code.Tests are based on requirements and functionality. Black box testing is used to find the errors in the following 1) Interface errors 2) Performance errors 3)... Read More

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reliablity testing in the sense recovery testing,i.e suppose u r application going to abnormal condition with the help of back up u r application comes to normal position or not for example:suppose suddenly power off ,with the help of back up (ups... Read More

Vefication: Checks consistency of the application with the i/p Validation:Checks Consistency of the aplication with the User Requirements. Verification takes place before the validation. Veification done on all the documents produced during... Read More

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Ideally to test a web application, the components and functionality on both the client and server side slould be tested.But it is practically impossible The best approach to examine the project's requirements,set priorities based on risk... Read More

System Testing: You do System testing after Integration tests are completed successfully. The aim of any Sysyem test is to test the complete SYSTEM ( Application, Hardware infrastructure like web servers, Applciation servers, Network, memory, IO,... Read More

The duration or time span between the first time bug is found (?New?) and closed successfully (status: ?Closed?), rejected, postponed or deferred is called as ?Bug/Error Life Cycle?. (Right from the first time any bug is detected till the point... Read More

Hi Release note bugs: Bugs fixed for this particular release Instruction notes for enhancements:It depends up on the release notes bugs ,which are bugs are going to be enhanced for next release Read More

failure: failure means "the fact of somenthing expected not being done." that means the application peforms actions against the requirements. effect means " a change caused by mething" effect analysis: since application not perform... Read More

Defect Age : The time of introduction of defect to time of detection. To compute the measurement one assigns a number to each software development life-cycle phase and calculates difference between detection phase with introduction phase (i.e. ... Read More

The V-model is a graphical representation of the system development lifecycle. It summarizes the main steps to be taken in conjunction with the corresponding deliverables within computerized system validation framework. The left tail of the V... Read More

Design for Testability (DFT) is a concept developed by electrical engineers to improve the designs of circuit boards so that these boards could be tested using conventional automated testing equipment (ATE). By bringing certain test points out to... Read More

The gap analysis can be done by tracebility matrix that means tracking down each individual requirements in SRS to various work products. Read More

Software Development Life Cycle [ SDLC ] has the following phases : 1) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION :The Documentation that depends uopn the client's Requirements.It is also called as Functional Specifications 2) DESIGNING PHASE :... Read More

# Purpose 1. product To satisfy some contractual requirement. 2. tool To further the testing process itself. 1. schedule 2. map Why distinguish the two? Change is inevitable; deal with it: external forces often dictate changes to the test... Read More

I would like to work in a team. Because the process of software development is like a relay race where many runners have to contribute in their respective laps. It is important because the complexity of work and degree of efforts required is beyond... Read More

The spiral model is similar to the incremental model.The spiral model has four phases: Planning, Risk Analysis, Engineering and Evaluation. Requirements are gathered during the planning phase. In the risk analysis phase, a process is undertaken... Read More

Quality Assurance group assure the Quality it must monitor the whole development process. they are most concentration on prevention of bugs. It must set standards, introduce review procedures, and educate people into better ways to design and... Read More

Verification - Evaluation done at the end of a phase to determine that requirements are established during the previou phase have been met. Generally Verificationrefers to the overall s/w evaluation activity, including reviewing, inspecting, checking... Read More

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Millions. All depend on your testing purpose. Read More

Which test case to automate: 1: test cases that need to run for every built.(also called sanity testing) 2: test that uses multiple set of datavalues for same actoin(called data driven testing). 3: identical test that need to be executed using... Read More

SRS is developed by the developer from the BRDor BRS that is given by client SRS specifies system requirments,screen shots of application,field level validation datas like datatype of fields BRS specifies the client requirments it will be... Read More

For long term projects we need a complete business requirement specification (BRS)document, Customer Requirement specification document, design document for testing, Test plan, Test strategy document, project plan. But for small project we don'... Read More

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GUI Testing: This is functional type of testing & deals with testing the features & operational behavior of the product as per specification set. Usability Testing: This type of testing is done to see the userfriendlyness of the... Read More

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Based on previous experiance on that particular product we start testing. This is mainly called ad-hoc testing. Read More

test plan is high level document that describes the objective, approach, scope & focus of software testing effort. Read More

Test cases are derived from Use Cases requirements are represented in terms of Use cases Read More

It is a standard used to improve bussiness quality. The six sigma cycle is Define-->Measure-->Analyse-->Improve and -- >Control Read More

Validation should start after Design stage when application is developed.Verification should start from first phase that is Requirement Analysis phase. Read More

Smoke testing is non-exhaustive software testing, ascertaining that the most crucial functions of a program work, but not bothering with finer details. Sanity testing is a cursory testing; it is performed whenever a cursory testing is sufficient to... Read More

Performance testing is used for test the application with respect to handle the performance. The main goal behind the performance test on web application is to find out the reason why the application bit slow over access on the network. So it helps... Read More

Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed- upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented to &... Read More

Automated testing is important to reduce the time and effort. However, it is very important to decide what to automate and what not. And one more thing, it does not completely eliminate the need of manual testing. Automated testing can be used... Read More

Fastness Accuracy Make work easier than manual process Read More

Baselining :Process by which the quality and cost effectiveness of a service is assessed, usually in advance of a change to the service. Baselining usually includes comparison of the service before and after the Change or analysis of trend... Read More

it depends on the end user requirement if the end user required that data from the database must retrieved fast then it is a testable requirement. we can test data base retrieval time by using some complex and simple querries. Read More

Yes i agree with nagendra but would like to add one more aspect to this.. that is internal customers. It is a fact that both internal (stake holders in software development internal to the company like management, other departments - related to the... Read More

For example in our Project, the bug was like Sales Tax should be calculated w.r.t the Address on Shipment, but in the address if some Space is given in b/w, the sales tax was not calculating. in my application there is a form called Customer... Read More

The Time and Budget both are the key factors in determining whether the test goes on Manual or it can be Automated. Apart from that The automation is required for areas such as Functional, Regression, Load and User Interface for accurate results... Read More

Test results are analysed to indentify the major causes of defect and which is the phase that has introduced most of the defects.This can be achieved through cause/effect analysis or Pareto analysis.Analysis of test results can provide several... Read More

In my present company HR introduced me to my colleagues. and i known the following things. 1.what is the organization structure? 2.what is the current project developing,on what domain etc., 3.I will know to whom i have to report and what r... Read More

Waterfall approach is a traditional approach to the s/w development.This will work out of it project is a small one(Not complex).Real time projects need spiral methodology as SDLC.Some product based development can follow Waterfall,if it is not... Read More

Structural Testing: It is basically the testing of code which is called white box testing. Behavioural Testing: It is also called functional testing where the functionality of a software is being tested. This kind of testing is called black box... Read More

I hanled functionality testing, GUI Testing, Database testing, Regression Testing. Also involved in Smoketesing once a build is released from the development team. Read More

PL or TL or the tester i.e QA person who has experience with development. Read More

Bug is an error that comes during development.testmetrics A document showing the relation ship between test requirements and test cases. Read More

as a tester my duty is 1. find the bug 2. seviority of the bug. 3. mention type of the bug 4. give attachments if any 5. if it is reproducible, mention the steps to reproduce 6.sugession if any. 6.mention date 8.ur sign Read More

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The Butterfly Model includes algorithms which capture behaviors of triggers, relationships between triggers, and relationships between triggers and defect types. This information is used to isolate and identify opportunities and exposures at the... Read More

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Oprating system is compatible to our build ,but our build is not compatible with opearating system,called backward compatibility.generally test enginers face backward comp.rather then forward comp. Read More

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It depends on the end user or client. If he is computer literate, then it's better to provide clear documentation on each and every feature and actions. If he is not computer literate,then reingineering(start from the scratch) is better. Read More

The goal of globalization testing is to detect potential problems in application design that could inhibit globalization. It makes sure that the code can handle all international support without breaking functionality that would cause either data... Read More

A fault in a program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner. Read More

Well i would say there are no written rules that a tester should work for for only particular number of hrs.i would say depending the work or depending on the deadline hrs vary Read More

IEEE 829-1998, also known as the 829 Standard for Software Test Documentation is an IEEE standard that specifies the form of a set of documents for use in eight defined stages of software testing, each stage potentially producing its own separate... Read More

Whenever the modifications happening to the actual project all the correspondind documents are adapted on the information.So as to keep the documents allways in sync with the product at any point of time Read More

100% bugfree testing is not at all possible. If we say 100% testing is completed, then that will be the end to any software. Then why we are getting so many projects still. Because we didn't develop a bugfree project. We can't develop a... Read More

It is the partial testing on the software application where it is going under the development process. Read More

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Main issue is the frequent change request. If there are frequent changes in the system, as an automation engineer, we need to take care of the changing objects and functionalities to update the scripts. Read More

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There are 2 types of Integration Testing 1) Incremental Intigration Testing 2) Non-Incremental Intigration Testing. INCREMENTAL INTIGRATION TESTING:- In this type of testing we have to add the interface incrementally and check the data... Read More

For any Project, testing activity will be there from starting onwards,After the Requirements gathering, Design Docs(High and Low) will be prepared, that will be tested, whether they are confirming to requirements or not, Design then Coding- White box... Read More

testing methdolagies: 1) whitebox testing 2) blockbox testing 3) gray box testing whitebox testing: whitebox tester must have programing knowledge......thitebox testing test whitebox tester.... block box testing : black box testing the project... Read More

I would like to be a QA engineer because it's work is related to the prevention. This is a more challening work than the test engineer. Read More

QAM:Quality Assurance Matrix TMM:Test Management Matrix PCM:Process Compatibility Matrix Read More

The goal of globalization testing is to detect potential problems in application design that could inhibit globalization. It makes sure that the code can handle all international support without breaking functionality that would cause either data... Read More

Unit testing: it is a testing on each unit(program) System testing:this is a bottleneck stage of our project.this testing done after integration of all modules to check whether our build meets all the requirements of customer or not.unit and... Read More

Organization of engineers, scientists and students involved in electrical, electronics, and related fields. It is important because it functions as a publishing house and standards-making body. Read More

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Changing of an application or changing of their versions and conducting testing is migration testing. Read More

The base of any test case is the Requirements documents and specification documents. Understanding the Application properly one can write good test cases, which are used to test the application properly. Read More

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ISO (International Standards Organization) is the International Standards Organizations. They do not create standards but (as with ANSI) provide a means of verifying that a proposed standard has met certain requirements for due process, consensus,... Read More

it depends on the end user requirement if the end user required that data from the database must retrieved fast then it is a testable requirement. we can test data base retrieval time by using some complex and simple querries. Read More

Test design is nothing but writing test cases. Before writing test cases we have to review Specifications. After getting understood the specs,then only we move to further phase. Read More

Testing in which all paths in the program source code are tested at least once. Read More

First thing is you need to do is just find out what kind of documents are those. For example he is asking you to go through BRD,SRS,TRD and soo on. If you can get yourself familarize with the kind of document you are going through, then come to... Read More

Yes sure we should do manual testing before going for Automation because the main criteria/input of Automation is that the application should STABLE before Automation. Then with out testing the application manually how we will conform that... Read More

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In software testing, a test harness is a collection of software and test data configured to test a program unit by running it under varying conditions and monitor its behavior and outputs. It has two main parts namely, Test execution engine and the... Read More

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Software configuration management (SCM) is the control, and the recording that are made to the software and documentation throughout the software development cycle (SDLC). SCM covers the tools and processes used to control, coordinate and track... Read More

We perform scalability testing to determine how effectively your Web site will expand to accommodate an increasing load. Scalability testing allows you to plan Web site capacity improvements as your business grows and to anticipate problems that... Read More

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BV analysis- we only check the boundry values and +or -of that values EP- firstt we divide the boundry values into some range with respect to that range we can check for example if u want to check 0-10 first divide the range- 3 1.checking... Read More

Cyclo complexity is a measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program module. It is a measure of complexity of code related to the number of ways there are to traverse to piece of code. This determines the minimum number of... Read More

set of inputs,expected results & preconditions that are devloped to reach quality atribute Read More

The duties of the software Tester is to go through the requirements documents and functional specification and based on those documents one should focus on writing test cases, which covers all the functionality to be tested. The tester should carry... Read More

there are two levels of testing:- 1 Low level testing a) Unit Testing b) Integration Testing 2 High level Testing a) System Testing b)Performance testing , Acceptance Testing Etc. Read More

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For medium size project 4-5 thousand test cases needed including Smoke , Functional, Integration, User interface test cases. Read More

Break in a function means to define break points that enables you to stop running the the test at a specified line or function in the test script. Read More

No. But this can be a testable if the requirement is clear and specifies the acceptable range of retrival rate i.e less than 1 second etc. Read More

Workaround time is a time in which the high priority defects should be fixed by Developers.( For Eg:-If a page crashes at a particular instance then usually this defect should be fixed in i guess in 6 hrs ,this again depends upon what type of test... Read More

Question : How can one file compare future dated output files from a program which has change, against the baseline run which used current date for input. The client does not want to mask dates on the output files to allow compares. - Answer... Read More

Shows stopper is bug which is a having high proority and seriousness Read More

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Value of testing group The value of testing group is measured by the cost of bugs they uncovered. The cost of bugs is determined by the cot of failure in live environment. How do we justify our work and budget. 1. Bugs discovered by us should be... Read More

The purpose of testing : 1.The product/ project should meet the Requirements 2.To satisty the End-User 3.To maintain the quality according to the Key process area for each CMM Level i 1 to 5 or six sigma or CMM Level 1 to 5 or ISO 4.To... Read More

Test group consisting of some of testers and test lead .in test group during testing time testing people maximum met the customer requirements and releasing the final product to customer. Tech support in the sense change control board,these people... Read More

Programmers:To build the project or product according to the specification. Tester :To determine the project or product satisfy the specification requirments without any defects. Read More

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Quality Assurance/Quality Control Quality Assurance is a focus on processes like defining,deploying ,continuous improving with the goal of defect prevention. Quality Control is a focus on products defect/bug detection with the goal of... Read More

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM) is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes. Read More

Testing life cycle This life cycle is used for standard applications that are built from various custom technologies and follow the normal or standard testing approach. The Application or custom-build Lifecycle and its phases is given below: ... Read More

Testing is one aspect which is very important in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). I llike to be part of the team which is responsible for the quality of the application being delivered. Also, QA has broad oppurtunities and large scope... Read More

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Regression Testing is carried out both manually and automation. The automatic tools are mainly used for the Regression Testing as this is mainly focused repeatedly testing the same application for the changes the application gone through for the... Read More

Ad-hoc testing should used only when the requirements are not written,or is not documented like an extereme programming .Normal projects where there are baselined requiremnts ,should not follow ad-hoc testing procedure.It must have testplan,testcase... Read More

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the control, and the recording that are made to the software and documentation throughout the software development cycle (SDLC). SCM covers the tools and processes used to control, coordinate and track code,... Read More

With the help of tracebility matrix. All the requirements are tracked to the test cases. When all the test cases are executed and passed is an indication that the code has met the requirements. Read More

Testing is a continuous process and it starts as and when the requirements for the project /product begins to be framed. Requirements phase: testing is done to check whether the project/product details are refelecting clients ideas or giving an... Read More

Requirement specifications are important and one of the most reliable methods of insuring problems in a complex software project. Requirements are the details describing an application?s externally perceived functionality and properties. Requirements... Read More

We can not perform 100% testing on any application. but the criteria to ensure test completion on a project is 1. all the test cases are executed with the certain percentage of pass. 2. bug falls below a certain level 3. test budget depleted ... Read More

Without requirements one cannot validate the software whether it has met the requirements or not. In this case the customer's acceptance can be treated as meeting the specifications. Read More

We do manual testing on printers/MFP's. The best bug i was found in the pre-gold release of product, i.e printer is not printing due to improper build. Read More

Learn about the scenario in which the problem occured. check your test plans/test design/test cases for the scenarion1. You donot have that scenario. Its an escape. Analyze the scenarion where you slipped and make amendments in future releases ... Read More

Normally the SRS or client specs are referred. However when the project undergoes constant modifications from the client, testers can sit in on the conversations chats so that they have a general idea of where the projects is headed. Also many a... Read More

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UAT stands for 'User acceptance Testing'This testing is carried out with the user perspective and it is usually done before a release Read More

Unit Testing is the testing the application when the application is in the development stage where the developers concentrate on developing the application as small unit programs, later all these units/objects/components are integrated to make a... Read More

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Yes Regression Testing is very much essential because the main purpose of Regression Testing is 1) To make conform whether the reported bug has been fixed properly or not 2) To make conform that during the fixing of the reported bug that... Read More

QA is the most important part of software life cycle . also i would like to be in a team which is responisble for the quality of a software.QA also has broad oportunities since it is not dependent on any technology. So, I'd be involved in it. Read More

3-tier Architecture means Application is not directly depending on the database it lies in between the front end and database and the tier present in between is called business tier 3-tiers are 1) Presentation Tier ( in which HTML, DHTML,... Read More

Exploratory testing is a type of testing a product without Requirement specifications, Design Specifications, etc. Read More

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Question : what is meant by waterfall model? What is advantage and disadvantage of waterfall model?       Answers: In this model every phase should be implemented in a sequential manner. output of one phase should be the... Read More

Test planning is done by testlead. As a test lead test planning begin when TRM is finalized by project manager and handover to the testlead. here test lead have some responsibilities those are, 1. testing team formation 2.identifying tactical... Read More

Question : what is the difference between frs (functional requirement specification) and srs (software requirement specification) ?       Answers: FRS(Functional Requirement Specification) specifies the flow of work and... Read More

Testing in a continous activity carried out at every stage of the project. You first test everthing that you get from the client. As tester (technical tester), my work will start as soon as the project starts. Read More

This is just a sample answer - "I have never created any test plan. I developed and executed testcases. But I was involved/participated actively with my Team Leader while creatiing Test Plans." Read More

this type of testing conducting who knows the domain knowledge,frame work,use cases, this type of testing conduting ad-hoc testing,sanity testing Read More

Authentication-->Checking the validity.Ex:A creditcard validation by Verisign.It is called authenticating the CreditCard Authorization-->Giving some rights -Ex:I authorize mr.Rahul to sign some papers realted with my bank accounts Read More

Following attributes should be there in a defect report:- * Bug Id * Test Case Id * Module/Screen * Description * Scenario * Bug Type * Severity * Status * Open Date * Reporting Date * Fixed Date * Close Date Read More

a code which is 1.bug free 2.reusable 3.independent 4.less complexity 5.well documented 6. easy to chage is called good code Read More

I would like to meet the HR person Person conducting Induction and ask for ? A brief company introduction ? Ask for formal introduction to my would be colleagues. ? Also a brief intro to the company culture ? rules and regulations ? dos... Read More

Define V-model : The V-model deploys a well-structured method in which each phase can be implemented by the detailed documentation of the previous phase. Testing activities like test designing start at the beginning of the project well before... Read More

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As per my knowledge Test Member are alway out of scope while preparing the Test Plan, Test Plan is a higher level document for Testing Team. Test Plan includes Purpose, scope, Customer/Client scope, schedule, HardWare, Delivirables and Test Cases etc... Read More

Testing is an interesting part of software cycle.and it is responsible for providing an quality product to a customer.It involves finding bugs which is more difficult and challenging.I wanna be part of testing group becos of this Read More

ROLES OF test-group manager INCLUDE * Defect find and close rates by week, normalized against level of effort (are we finding defects, and can developers keep up with the number found and the ones necessary to fix?) * Number of tests planned,... Read More

The Unified Modeling Language is a third-generation method for specifying, visualizing, and documenting the artifacts of an object-oriented system under development From the inside, the Unified Modeling Language consists of three things: i) A... Read More

harness: an arrangement of straps for attaching a horse to a cart. Test Harness: This class of tool supports the processing of tests by working it almost painless to 1. Install a candidate program in a test environment 2. feed it input data 3... Read More

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the role of the QA in the company is to produce a quality software and to ensure that it meets all the requirements of its customers before delivering the product. Read More

Bullding a test team needs a number of factors to judge. Firstly, you have to consider the compelxity of the application or project that is going to be tested. Next testing time alloted, levels of testing to be performed. With all these parameters in... Read More

It depends on the functionality related with that module.We need to check whether that module is inter-related with other modules.If it is related with other modules,we need to test related modules too.Otherwise,if it is an independent module,no need... Read More

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Question : what is terminologe why testing necessary fundamental test process psychology of testing       Answers: Testing Terminologies : Error: a human action that produces an incorrect result. ... Read More

Black box testing Tests are based on requirements and functionality. Not based on any knowledge of internal design or code. White box testing Tests are based on coverage of code statements, branches, paths, conditions. Based on knowledge of the... Read More

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project plan test plan test case specification test data Read More

the common bugs encountered during the testing process are mismatch errors, runtime errors, exception handling errors, data less or wrong data. Read More

Domin is a One specific area, Domin Testing goal is to check values taken by a variable, a condition, or an index, and to prove that they are outside the specified or valid range. It also contains checking that the program acepts only valid input... Read More

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Plan your work, Track your work and analyze you work. It will help you to improve your standards of working. Read More

Question : For a bug with high severity can we give the priority also to be high...If so why we need both?For example severity=1 and priority=1...Cant we have only priority/severity??       Answers: sevirity will be... Read More

Question : How would you differentiaite between.. Bug and Defect and Failure and Error.       Answers:   Bug means Dissatisfaction of requirement But Defect means missing requirement. Read More

Maitain a better relationship with the developers.Before raising the Bug make sure that the bug is a real & valied one.Dont blame the developer for mistakes. Read More

Grace Murray Hopper is Pioneer Computer Scientist & Dennis Ritchie developed the "C" language. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson developed the Unix operating system Read More

it is the process of methodically reducing the huge(infinite) set of possible test cases into much smaller groups,but still equally effective set Read More

The 5 concepts are: localizability, translation, localization, internationalization, and globalization. The first three (localizability, translation, and localization) are about resources: ? Localizability is about enabling translation and... Read More

When i run all the test cases scheduled, report bugs, and retesting and regression is carried after the bugs are fixed, and when there are no bugs to close. Read More

Black Box Testing: Testing input/output without knowledge and/or regard of the internal code. Commonly designed/executed by test team. White (Glass) Box Testing: Testing input/output with full knowledge and/or regard of the internal code.... Read More

)check that all system and printer connected in lan 2)check that client must be access server 3)client should be get permission for access printer 4)if server denied his/her req there should be proper message displayed 5)if server accept req there is... Read More

tester should able to write test cases and excute test cases that is written by others. if we have sufficient to write test cases and execute test cases then wer execute. if the it is tite shedule means test cases prepare by some one and excute by... Read More

Bullding a test team needs a number of factors to judge. Firstly, you have to consider the compelxity of the application or project that is going to be tested. Next testing time alloted, levels of testing to be performed. With all these parameters in... Read More

I used to have a tendency to procrastinate. So now I am always sure to set a strict schedule for all of my projects well in advance and I set personal deadlines. This organization has really helped." "Once in a while, I focus too much on the... Read More

As a test engineer i will develope automation tests before begin comprehensive testing, and after TAT is completed, that to if the test is repeatable and critical to apply manually then only i will go for the automation Read More

An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client. Read More

A successful product is one which is bug free and is as per the requirements specifiend by the customer, satisfying all the quality standards and into the market with in the schedule. Read More

The goals of both are different: Testing :- The goal of testing is to find the errors. Qly Assurance :- The goal of QA is to prevent the errors in the application. Read More

System of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all research, design, performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality. Quality... Read More

It's a process of developing a software system in an organized, controlled, and predictable way. The process starts at the conception of the project to its termination with the company, sometime called a cradle-to-grave process. System... Read More

ISO 9000 is a series of international standards that provides quality management guidance and identifies quality system elements. Read More

Generally we use BVA and ECP for validating the input values. We can't check all the values that it allows, as it takes much time. For example a text box should allow only 10 characters and no special chars and no digits should be allowed. ... Read More

QA always monitors the project from beginning to end. if there is process violation takes places then he takes a CAPA(corrective action and preventive action). his work is preventive work. he does his work by conducting reviews,meetings,... Read More

Generally, in testing time development team passes builds with unique numbers to testing people. All these builds are placed in a secured folder.We can also place our Design specifications, Test cases documents, bug reports, review reports, specs and... Read More

A test path adequacy measurement technique that proposes using the reduction of the space of undetectable faults as a criterion for test path selection and is intended to reveal faults in arithmetic expressions Read More

Localization Testing is nothing but testing the languages now a days all applications r devoloping in all languages so here we wil check the application in different languages Read More

There are different methods for automating such tests. One is the record/playback method that leads to a very long script that can take days to run. It would systematically execute code to set the environment, and code to execute the test,... Read More

Insure ??? Must ensure, I guess.. I don't see any need of adopting any tactics or anything to get the bugs fixed by the developer, that's his duty that also depends on the timelines, priority of the bug, customer demand/request....so on.... Read More

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 Question : What is embedded testing? list out the components in embedded testing     Answers: Embedded systems are in every "intelligent" device that is infiltrating our daily lives: the cell phone in our pocket, and... Read More

Mutation testing is required to ensure that the software does not fail. mutation testing is also a good debugging mechanism. After the software works properly, mutation testing can be done to simulate wrong inputs . sothat the software does not fail.... Read More

Equivalence Partitioning is useful to minimize the number of test cases when the input data can be divided into distinct sets,where the behaviour or outcome of the product within each member of the set is the same. EP involves dividing into... Read More

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Recovery testing - testing how well a system recovers from crashes, hardware failures, or other catastrophic problems. The realization includes all the internal activities of the supplier or of the IT department before the final product can be... Read More

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Incrimental Testing : This is the systematical testing conducted to test the application according to the requirment. Incrimental testing is a part of system testing. The risk of the system failing as a whole is constantly being mitigated. This is... Read More

Exploratory testing:Testing the application without any prior knowledge of it.You will be learning the functionality of the application while testing( exploring) it. Read More

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 Question : How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from those problems?       Answers: learn about the scenario in which the problem occured. check your test plans... Read More

Question : What is meant by V_model? What is advantage and disadvantage of V_model? Answers: V-model - its a standard recommended by British computer society. in this model development stages are linked with testing stages. viturally it... Read More

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hi test group consisting of some of testers and test lead .in test group during testing time testing people maximum met the customer requirements and releasing the final product to customer. tech support in the sense change control board,these... Read More

Question : 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 in new features (3)... Read More

Client server testing : Client server is a single user application. testing the application in the intranet is client-server testing. Web-based testing : testing the application with the internet is web-based testing. Read More

The best ceritification in testing till date is the CSTE, that is Certified Software Test Engineer. Read More

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Relase candidate is a pre-release version. Which contains the desired functionality of the final released version,which needs to be tested for bugs.(which idealy should be removed before the final vesrion is relased) Read More

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No According to the different business rules and model the tester approach would differ. Read More

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Nonfunctional testing include 1. graphical user interface 2. usability 3. performance Read More

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Test Data - Data which is used while testing. For Testing Employee Number Field - Test Data EMP001 can be used Test the data through the data tables in the form Hyper links(Through hyperlinks we access the data tables). Read More

Generic Sequence 1. Run Smoke Test Plan 2. Execute Functional Test Plan ( If planned ) 3. Verify Bug Fixes 4. Execute Regression Test Plan ( applicable to builld under test, if planned ) 5. Based on above executions decide (... Read More

Its not mandatory.There are several points to be considered here. Delivery time available, personnel availability, complexity of the application under testing, availble resources, budget etc. But we should test conver to the maximum extent satisfying... Read More

Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that development and maintainance process is adequate to ensure a system will meet all its objectives. Quality Control: A set of activities designed to evaluate a developed working... Read More

No. But this can be a testable if the requirement is clear and specifies the acceptable range of retrival rate i.e less than 1 second etc. Read More

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the defects are based on severity and priority. 3 types of severity critical, major, minor priority is of high,medium,low test format is also called test plan. it is a documentation Read More

A product is said to be quality product if it contains following. 1. it should be bug free 2. it should be delivered on time with in the budget 3.it should satisfy the requirements. 4.last but not the least it must satisfy the end user. ... Read More

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I am too much comfortable with the technologies what my company is using presently and i am expecting that your company is the right place where i can enhance my domain as well as technical skills and i can prove myself. Or I've been aware... Read More

Risk Identification needs to be done to identify critical areas and then test them Read More

A quick and dirty test that the major functions of a piece of S/W work.Originated in the H/W testing practice of turning on a new piece of H/W for the first time and considering it a success if it does not catch on fire.Santi testing is the brief... Read More

As to the difference between integration testing and system testing. System testing specifically goes after behaviors and bugs that are properties of the entire system as distinct from properties attributable to components (unless, of course,... Read More

smoke testing is use ful for checking the main functionality of aplication sanity testing is useful for checking the basic functionality of aplication Read More

Expected results is another way of asking "How do you know if a bug is a bug?". There are several ways to determine this depending upon what info is available. 1: You can check the spec or requirements. 2: You can check against the previous... Read More

The difference between Testing Techniques and testing level is that, In general, Testing Techniques:White box and blackbox Testing Levels: 1 Unit testing 2 Integration testing 3 System testing 4 User acceptence testing again Black box can... Read More

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Phase Containment(prevention of spread of something harmful): Suppose we find a defect at design stage. so we prevent that to spreading to the next stage. i.e; we traced back that defect and correct that in requirements and then in design. after... Read More

Like: carrying out testing with limited resources,limited time and limited effort and uncovering bugs is a very challenging & creative task. Dislikes: Occur problems in the relationship with the devlopers. Read More

Test Strategy: Any method for generating tests based on formally or informally defined criteria of test completeness. Test Plan: A document describing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended testing activities. It identifies test... Read More

The Scope can be defined from the BRS, SRS, FRS or from functional points. It may be anything that is provided by the client. And regarding organizing we need to analyze the functionality to be covered and who will testing the modules and pros and... Read More

Ensuring that all the customer requirements are met in the product which is under production. It s a static testing activity which is conducted before Quality control. It answers the querry, ARE WE BUILDING THE PRODUCT IN A BETTER WAY BY USING... Read More

ISO 9000 specifies requirements for a Quality Management System overseeing the production of a product or service. It is not a standard for ensuring a product or service is of quality; rather, it attests to the process of production, and how it will... Read More

I think we need to do a market research on various tools depending on the type of application we are testing. Say we are testing an application madein VB with an Oracle Database, then Winrunner is going to give good results. But in some cases it... Read More

Scenario means development. We define scenario by the following definition:Set of test cases that ensure the business process flows are tested from end to end. It may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependant on... Read More

It is used to measure the complexity of software process. It detemines the how many number of inputs are needed to test the application in all the possible ways. Read More

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. QA/Test managers are familiar with the software development process, able to maintain the teamwork to increase productivity, have the ability to withstand pressures and able to communicate with technical and non-technical people. Project... Read More

We can map SDLC with Testing in the following way: In the requirements stage a tester can start writing a testplan. In the designing stage, a tester can start writing 60% of Testcases. In the Coding stage, a tester can write the remaining... Read More

QA's role to be management's eyes and ears to understand how well the s/w is being build and to know when corrective actions are needed.By measuring and monitering the s/w development ,qa helps to determine if organisation's standard... Read More

Good communication, writing and speaking skills especially English. Reporting, Analytical thinking, eye for detail, organizing, planning, Logical thinking. Ability to understand technical terms, testing methodologies to read functional, requirement,... Read More

ISO 9000 specifies requirements for a Quality Management System overseeing the production of a product or service. It is not a standard for ensuring a product or service is of quality; rather, it attests to the process of production, and how it will... Read More

This is entire depends of client's requirement and vary from organization to organization.Also while studying the build we can develop test cases accordingly, for which at least an SRS document is needed. However the standard can be followed as... Read More

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Tester is only responsible of the creating and executing Test Cases where as Test Lead is responsible for Overall Testing Flow. Read More

whenever we receive a build from development team first up all wewill conduct smoke testing.In this we will check presence of .exe file/url of build & also those r working r not. after that we will go for sanity testing.In this testing we... Read More

One of the charecteristic of a test engr is to break the system,basically a TE tries to break the system in various ways like functionality testing,performance testing,security testing and if the build has been developed flawless then there is no... Read More

In Product Developement, A tester job is Goal Oriented and in Services Company,Your job is Process oriented. In CMM companies they prepare supporting documentation apart from his regular duties like Desining and executing Test cases and reporting... Read More

For this first we have to see the drawbacks of Manual testing. 1.More no. of people required. 2. More time is consume. 3. it's a tedious task. 4.We can't repeat the test easily 5. Concurrency is missing Automation:it is a... Read More

Common set of standardised documents the IEEE developed the 829 Standard for Software Test Documentation for any type of software testing, including User Acceptance Testing. There are eight document types in the IEEE 829 standard, which can... Read More

System testing is the testing system as the whole t.e. system is working fine.end to end testing is the testing of system from requirement specification to the delivery of phase. Read More

Testing means QC and QC means quality of product while QA measures the quality of process used to create a quality of product. Read More

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IN my opinion test belt means combination of test cases is called test belt. Read More

Integration testing: - This test begins after two or more programs or application components have been successfully unit tested. The development team to validate the technical quality or design of the application conducts it. It is the first level... Read More

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