SDLC is the process of developing Software Systems Verification: Says “Are we building the product right?

through Requirement, analysis, design, implementation Validation: Says “Are we building the right product?”
and maintenance. Test Script: “A logical group of test cases which, when
Testing: : It is a process of executing software in a taken together, test a particular function or unit of a
controlled manner, in the indent of finding errors system”
Test Case: is an Input operation for a corresponding Test Bed: “A group of test scripts which, when taken
expected output in order to test a small unit of work. together, test all functions of an entire system”
Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure Test scenario is a set of test case that ensures BUSINESS
that the development process meets the requirement PROCESS FLOW of testing
Quality Control: A set of activities designed to evaluate a Testing Strategy provides the framework necessary to
developed work product. implement testing methodology
Severity and Priority Test Plan is designed to prescribe the scope, approach,
Priority is associated with scheduling, that determines resources, and schedule of all testing activities.
which bug needs to be fixed first Test Metrics, It is the measure that is used to find faults.
Severity is associated with standards, that states how bad (usually No of defects per thousand lines)
is the bug, Requirement Traceability Matrix: describes mapping
Blocker: This bug prevents developers from testing or between requirements and test cases to check whether all
developing the software. test cases are covered or not.
Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose Test Responsibility Matrix: describes which type of
data. testing technique has to be chosen to corresponding use
Major: A major feature is broken. case
Normal: It's a bug that should be fixed. Positive testing is that testing which attempts to show
Minor: Minor loss of function, and there's an easy work that a given module of an application does what it is
around. supposed to do.
Trivial: A cosmetic problem, such as a misspelled word or Negative testing is that testing which attempts to show
misaligned text. that the module does not do anything that it is not
Enhancement: Request for new feature or enhancement. supposed to do.
Verification is (Quality control process ) designed to Walkthrough is an informal meeting for evaluation
evaluate a developed work product purposes. Little or no preparation is usually required.
Validation is (Quality assurance process) designed to Inspection is more formalized evaluation typically with
ensure that the development procedure meets the 3-8 people including a moderator, reader, and a recorder
requirement. to take notes. The subject of the inspection is typically a
Error: A human action that produces an incorrect result. document such as a requirements spec or a test plan, and
Bug: Deviation from the expected result. the purpose is to find problems and see what's missing,
Defect: Problem in algorithm leads to failure. not to fix anything.
Failure: Result of any of the above.
Types of Testing Static testing Verification performed with out executing
Black box testing : Testing without Internal knowledge of the system’s code. Also called as static analysis. ex:
workings of the item being tested. Tests are usually Usability, GUI testing
functional Dynamic testing Verification &validation performed that
White box testing: Testing based on internal workings executes the system’s code is called as dynamic testing.
and structural analysis of a piece of software. Includes Regression testing focuses on finding defects after a
techniques such as Branch Testing and Path Testing. Also major code change has occurred
known as Structural Testing and Glass Box Testing. Retesting: retesting means executing the test cases again
Unit Testing Testing of individual software components on the same build to check for bugs
or modules. Typically done by the programmer and not by Functional Testing: Testing the application against
testers, as it requires detailed knowledge of the internal business requirements.
program design and code Non-Functional Testing: Testing the application
Integration testing Testing in which modules are against performance requirement.
combined and tested as a group i. Recovery Testing ii. Compatibility Testing
Functional testing - This type of testing that ignores the iii. Configuration Testing iv. Inter system Testing
internal parts and focus on the output is as per requirement v. Installation Testing vi. Load Testing
System testing - Entire system is tested as per the vii. Stress Testing viii. Data Volume Testing
requirements. It is based on overall requirements
specifications and covers all combined parts of a system Endurance Testing: Checks for memory leaks or other
problems that may occur with prolonged execution.
End-to-end testing - Similar to system testing, involves
testing of a complete application in a situation that Comparison Testing: In comparison testing, we
resembles real-world, such as interacting with a database, compare the old application with new application and see
using network communications whether the new application is working better than the old
Compatibility testing : ensure compatibility of an application or not.
application or Web site with different browsers, OSs, and
hardware platforms. CT can be performed manually or can Install Uninstall Testing This is the part of installation
be driven by an automated functional or regression test testing during this test we validate that whether the
suite. Navigation, Path, Steps are provided to install the
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Q - What is verification? validation?

Verification typically involves reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans,

code, requirements, and specifications. This can be done with checklists, issues lists,
walkthroughs, and inspection meetings. Validation typically involves actual testing
and takes place after verifications are completed. The term 'IV & V' refers to
Independent Verification and Validation.

Q - What's an 'inspection'?

An inspection is more formalized than a 'walkthrough', typically with 3-8 people

including a moderator, reader, and a recorder to take notes.
The subject of the inspection is typically a document such as a requirements spec or a
test plan, and the purpose is to find problems and see what's missing, not to fix
anything. Attendees should prepare for this type of meeting by reading thru the
document; most problems will be found during this preparation. The result of the
inspection meeting should be a written report.

Q - What is a 'walkthrough'?
A 'walkthrough' is an informal meeting for evaluation or informational purposes.
Little or no preparation is usually required.

Q - What makes a good Software QA engineer?

The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer. Additionally, they
must be able to understand the entire software development process and how it can fit
into the business approach and goals of the organization. Communication skills and
the ability to understand various sides of issues are important. In organizations in the
early stages of implementing QA processes, patience and diplomacy are especially
needed. An ability to find problems as well as to see 'what's missing' is important for
inspections and reviews.

What is Acceptance Testing?

Testing
conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether to accept a software product.
Normally performed to validate the software meets a set of agreed acceptance criteria.

What is Accessibility Testing?

Verifying a product is accessible to the people having disabilities (deaf, blind, mentally
disabled etc.).

What is Ad Hoc Testing?

A testing phase where the tester tries to ‘break’ the system by randomly trying the system’s
functionality. Can include negative testing as well. See also Monkey Testing.
What is Agile Testing?
Testing practice for projects using agile methodologies, treating development as the customer
of testing and emphasizing a test-first design paradigm. See also Test Driven Development.

What is Application Binary Interface (ABI)?

A specification defining requirements for portability of applications in binary forms across
defferent system platforms and environments.

What is Application Programming Interface (API)?

A formalized set of software calls and routines that can be referenced by an application
program in order to access supporting system or network services.

What is Automated Software Quality (ASQ)?

The use of software tools, such as automated testing tools, to improve software quality.

What is Automated Testing?

Testing employing software tools which execute tests without manual intervention. Can be
applied in GUI, performance, API, etc. testing.
The use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to
predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test
reporting functions.
What is Backus-Naur Form?
A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language.

What is Basic Block?

A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches.

What is Basis Path Testing?

A white box test case design technique that uses the algorithmic flow of the program to
design tests.

What is Basis Set?

The set of tests derived using basis path testing.

What is Baseline?
The point at which some deliverable produced during the software engineering process is put
under formal change control.
What you will do during the first day of job?
What would you like to do five years from now?

Tell me about the worst boss you’ve ever had.

What are your greatest weaknesses?

What are your strengths?

What is a successful product?

What do you like about Windows?

What is good code?

What are basic, core, practices for a QA specialist?

What do you like about QA?

What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what would you change?

How you will begin to improve the QA process?

What is the difference between QA and QC?

What is UML and how to use it for testing?

What is Beta Testing?
Testing of a rerelease of a software product conducted by customers.

What is Binary Portability Testing?

Testing an executable application for portability across system platforms and environments,
usually for conformation to an ABI specification.

What is Black Box Testing?

Testing based on an analysis of the specification of a piece of software without reference to
its internal workings. The goal is to test how well the component conforms to the published
requirements for the component.

What is Bottom Up Testing?

An approach to integration testing where the lowest level components are tested first, then
used to facilitate the testing of higher level components. The process is repeated until the
component at the top of the hierarchy is tested.

What is Boundary Testing?

Test which focus on the boundary or limit conditions of the software being tested. (Some of
these tests are stress tests).
What is Bug?
A fault in a program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or unanticipated
manner.

What is Boundary Value Analysis?

BVA is similar to Equivalence Partitioning but focuses on “corner cases” or values that are
usually out of range as defined by the specification. his means that if a function expects all
values in range of negative 100 to positive 1000, test inputs would include negative 101 and
positive 1001.

What is Branch Testing?

Testing in which all branches in the program source code are tested at least once.

What is Breadth Testing?

A test suite that exercises the full functionality of a product but does not test features in detail.

What is CAST?
Computer Aided Software Testing.
What is CMMI?
What do you like about computers?

Do you have a favourite QA book? More than one? Which ones? And why.

What is the responsibility of programmers vs QA?

What are the properties of a good requirement?

Ho to do test if we have minimal or no documentation about the product?

What are all the basic elements in a defect report?

Is an “A fast database retrieval rate” a testable requirement?

What is software quality assurance?

What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?

What is the role of the test group vis-à-vis documentation, tech support, and so forth?

How much interaction with users should testers have, and why?

How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from
those problems?

What are the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?

What issues come up in test automation, and how do you manage them?
What is Capture/Replay Tool?
A test tool that records test input as it is sent to the software under test. The input cases stored
can then be used to reproduce the test at a later time. Most commonly applied to GUI test
tools.

What is CMM?
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.

What is Cause Effect Graph?

A graphical representation of inputs and the associated outputs effects which can be used to
design test cases.

What is Code Complete?

Phase of development where functionality is implemented in entirety; bug fixes are all that
are left. All functions found in the Functional Specifications have been implemented.

What is Code Coverage?

An analysis method that determines which parts of the software have been executed (covered)
by the test case suite and which parts have not been executed and therefore may require
additional attention.
What is Code Inspection?
A formal testing technique where the programmer reviews source code with a group who ask
questions analyzing the program logic, analyzing the code with respect to a checklist of
historically common programming errors, and analyzing its compliance with coding
standards.

What is Code Walkthrough?

A formal testing technique where source code is traced by a group with a small set of test
cases, while the state of program variables is manually monitored, to analyze the
programmer’s logic and assumptions.

What is Coding?
The generation of source code.

What is Compatibility Testing?

Testing whether software is compatible with other elements of a system with which it should
operate, e.g. browsers, Operating Systems, or hardware.
What is Component?
A minimal software item for which a separate specification is available.

What is Component Testing?

See the question what is Unit Testing.

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 development model should programmers and the test group use?
How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code?

What is the role of a bug tracking system?

What are the key challenges of testing?

Have you ever completely tested any part of a product? How?

Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing?

Should every business test its software the same way?

Discuss the economics of automation and the role of metrics in testing.

Describe components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and for
database products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams.

When have you had to focus on data integrity?

What are some of the typical bugs you encountered in your last assignment?

How do you prioritize testing tasks within a project?

How do you develop a test plan and schedule? Describe bottom-up and top-down approaches.
When should you begin test planning?

When should you begin testing?

What is Conversion Testing?

Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing systems for use in
replacement systems.

What is Cyclomatic Complexity?

A measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box testing.

What is Data Dictionary?

A database that contains definitions of all data items defined during analysis.

What is Data Flow Diagram?

A modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system.

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 Debugging?
The process of finding and removing the causes of software failures.

What is Defect?
Nonconformance to requirements or functional / program specification

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 Emulator?
A device, computer program, or system that accepts the same inputs and produces the same
outputs as a given system.
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 Equivalence Class?

A portion of a component’s input or output domains for which the component’s behaviour is
assumed to be the same from the component’s specification.
What is Equivalence Partitioning?
A test case design technique for a component in which test cases are designed to execute
representatives from equivalence classes.

What is Exhaustive Testing?

Testing which covers all combinations of input values and preconditions for an element of the
software under test.
What is Functional Decomposition?
A technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional hierarchy for the
software.

What is Functional Specification?

A document that describes in detail the characteristics of the product with regard to its
intended features.

What is 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 response to selected inputs and execution conditions.
See also What is Black Box Testing.

What is Glass Box Testing?

A synonym for White Box Testing.
Do you know of metrics that help you estimate the size of the testing effort?
How do you scope out the size of the testing effort?

How many hours a week should a tester work?

How should your staff be managed? How about your overtime?

How do you estimate staff requirements?

What do you do (with the project tasks) when the schedule fails?

How do you handle conflict with programmers?

How do you know when the product is tested well enough?

What characteristics would you seek in a candidate for test-group manager?

What do you think the role of test-group manager should be? Relative to senior management?
Relative to other technical groups in the company? Relative to your staff?

How do your characteristics compare to the profile of the ideal manager that you just
described?

How does your preferred work style work with the ideal test-manager role that you just
described? What is different between the way you work and the role you described?

Who should you hire in a testing group and why?

What is Gorilla Testing?
Testing one particular module, functionality heavily.
What is Gray Box Testing?
A combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies? testing a piece of
software against its specification but using some knowledge of its internal workings.

What is High Order Tests?

Black-box tests conducted once the software has been integrated.

What is Independent Test Group (ITG)?

A group of people whose primary responsibility is software testing,

What is Inspection?
A group review quality improvement process for written material. It consists of two aspects;
product (document itself) improvement and process improvement (of both document
production and inspection).
What is Integration Testing?
Testing of combined parts of an application to determine if they function together correctly.
Usually performed after unit and functional testing. This type of testing is especially relevant
to client/server and distributed systems.

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 Load Testing?

See Performance Testing.

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 Metric?
A standard of measurement. Software metrics are the statistics describing the structure or
content of a program. A metric should be a real objective measurement of something such as
number of bugs per lines of code.

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 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 Positive Testing?
Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as “test to pass”. See also Negative
Testing.

What is Quality Assurance?

All those planned or systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a
product or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer.

What is Quality Audit?

A systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality activities and related
results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements are implemented
effectively and are suitable to achieve objectives.

What is Quality Circle?

A group of individuals with related interests that meet at regular intervals to consider
problems or other matters related to the quality of outputs of a process and to the correction of
problems or to the improvement of quality.
What is Quality Control?
The operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify requirements of quality.

What is Quality Management?

That aspect of the overall management function that determines and implements the quality
policy.

What is Quality Policy?

The overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality as formally
expressed by top management.

What is Quality System?

The organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources for
implementing quality management.

What is Race Condition?

A cause of concurrency problems. Multiple accesses to a shared resource, at least one of
which is a write, with no mechanism used by either to moderate simultaneous access.

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 Regression Testing?

Retesting a previously tested program following modification to ensure that faults have not
been introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes made.

What is Release Candidate?

A pre-release version, which contains the desired functionality of the final version, but which
needs to be tested for bugs (which ideally should be removed before the final version is
released).
What is Sanity Testing?
Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to determine if its basically
operational. See also Smoke Testing.

What is Scalability Testing?

Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test gracefully handles
increases in work load.
What is the role of metrics in comparing staff performance in human resources management?
How do you estimate staff requirements?

What do you do (with the project staff) when the schedule fails?

Describe some staff conflicts youÂ’ve handled.

Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?

What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?

What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you
resolve it?

What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?

What do you like most about Quality Assurance/Testing?

What do you like least about Quality Assurance/Testing?

What is the Waterfall Development Method and do you agree with all the steps?

What is the V-Model Development Method and do you agree with this model?
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 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 is Software Requirements Specification?

A deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints,
and all validation requirements for software/

What is Software Testing?

A set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in software.
What is Static Analysis?
Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
What is Static Analyzer?
A tool that carries out static analysis.

What is Static Testing?

Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.

What is Storage Testing?

Testing that verifies the program under test stores data files in the correct directories and that
it reserves sufficient space to prevent unexpected termination resulting from lack of space.
This is external storage as opposed to internal storage.

What is Stress Testing?

Testing conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the limits of its specified
requirements to determine the load under which it fails and how. Often this is performance
testing using a very high level of simulated load.
What is Structural Testing?
Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece of software. See
also White Box Testing.

What is System Testing?

Testing that attempts to discover defects that are properties of the entire system rather than of
its individual components.

What is Testability?
The degree to which a system or component facilitates the establishment of test criteria and
the performance of tests to determine whether those criteria have been met.

What is Testing?
The process of exercising software to verify that it satisfies specified requirements and to
detect errors.
The process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and
required conditions (that is, bugs), and to evaluate the features of the software item (Ref.
IEEE Std 829).
The process of operating a system or component under specified conditions, observing or
recording the results, and making an evaluation of some aspect of the system or component.
What is Test Automation? It is the same as Automated Testing.

What is Test Bed?

An execution environment configured for testing. May consist of specific hardware, OS,
network topology, configuration of the product under test, other application or system
software, etc. The Test Plan for a project should enumerated the test beds(s) to be used.
What is Test Case?
Test Case is a commonly used term for a specific test. This is usually the smallest unit of
testing. A Test Case will consist of information such as requirements testing, test steps,
verification steps, prerequisites, outputs, test environment, etc.
A set of inputs, execution preconditions, and expected outcomes developed for a particular
objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific
requirement.
Test Driven Development? Testing methodology associated with Agile Programming in
which every chunk of code is covered by unit tests, which must all pass all the time, in an
effort to eliminate unit-level and regression bugs during development. Practitioners of TDD
write a lot of tests, i.e. an equal number of lines of test code to the size of the production code.
What is Test Driver?
A program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test Harness.

What is Test Environment?

The hardware and software environment in which tests will be run, and any other software
with which the software under test interacts when under test including stubs and test drivers.

What is Test First Design?

Test-first design is one of the mandatory practices of Extreme Programming (XP).It requires
that programmers do not write any production code until they have first written a unit test.
What is a “Good Tester”?

Could you tell me two things you did in your previous assignment (QA/Testing related
hopefully) that you are proud of?

List 5 words that best describe your strengths.

What are two of your weaknesses?

What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?

In an application currently in production, one module of code is being modified. Is it

necessary to re- test the whole application or is it enough to just test functionality associated
with that module?

How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?

Define the following and explain their usefulness: Change Management, Configuration
Management, Version Control, and Defect Tracking.

What is ISO 9000? Have you ever been in an ISO shop?

When are you done testing?

What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?

What is ISO 9003? Why is it important

What is Test Harness?
A program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test Driver.

What is Test Plan?

A document describing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended testing
activities. It identifies test items, the features to be tested, the testing tasks, who will do each
task, and any risks requiring contingency planning. Ref IEEE Std 829.

What is Test Procedure?

A document providing detailed instructions for the execution of one or more test cases.

What is Test Script?

Commonly used to refer to the instructions for a particular test that will be carried out by an
automated test tool.
What is Test Specification?
A document specifying the test approach for a software feature or combination or features and
the inputs, predicted results and execution conditions for the associated tests.
What is Test Suite?
A collection of tests used to validate the behavior of a product. The scope of a Test Suite
varies from organization to organization. There may be several Test Suites for a particular
product for example. In most cases however a Test Suite is a high level concept, grouping
together hundreds or thousands of tests related by what they are intended to test.

What is Test Tools?

Computer programs used in the testing of a system, a component of the system, or its
documentation.

What is Thread Testing?

A variation of top-down testing where the progressive integration of components follows the
implementation of subsets of the requirements, as opposed to the integration of components
by successively lower levels.

What is Top Down Testing?

An approach to integration testing where the component at the top of the component
hierarchy is tested first, with lower level components being simulated by stubs. Tested
components are then used to test lower level components. The process is repeated until the
lowest level components have been tested.
What is Total Quality Management?
A company commitment to develop a process that achieves high quality product and customer
satisfaction.

What is Traceability Matrix?

A document showing the relationship between Test Requirements and Test Cases.

What is Usability Testing?

Testing the ease with which users can learn and use a product.

What is Use Case?

The specification of tests that are conducted from the end-user perspective. Use cases tend to
focus on operating software as an end-user would conduct their day-to-day activities.

What is Unit Testing?

Testing of individual software components.
What is Validation?
The process of evaluating software at the end of the software development process to ensure
compliance with software requirements. The techniques for validation is testing, inspection
and reviewing
What is Verification?
The process of determining whether of not the products of a given phase of the software
development cycle meet the implementation steps and can be traced to the incoming
objectives established during the previous phase. The techniques for verification are testing,
inspection and reviewing.
What is Volume Testing?
Testing which confirms that any values that may become large over time (such as
accumulated counts, logs, and data files), can be accommodated by the program and will not
cause the program to stop working or degrade its operation in any manner.
What is Walkthrough?
A review of requirements, designs or code characterized by the author of the material under
review guiding the progression of the review.
What is White Box Testing?
Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece of software.
Includes techniques such as Branch Testing and Path Testing. Also known as Structural
Testing and Glass Box Testing. Contrast with Black Box Testing.

What is Workflow Testing?

Scripted end-to-end testing which duplicates specific workflows which are expected to be
utilized by the end-user.
What are ISO standards? Why are they important?
What is IEEE 829? (This standard is important for Software Test Documentation-Why?)

What is IEEE? Why is it important?

Do you support automated testing? Why?

We have a testing assignment that is time-driven. Do you think automated tests are the best
solution?

What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members.
Do you think managing change is such a big deal for us?

Are reusable test cases a big plus of automated testing and explain why.

Can you build a good audit trail using Compuware’s QACenter products. Explain why.

How important is Change Management in today’s computing environments?

Do you think tools are required for managing change. Explain and please list some
tools/practices which can help you managing change.

We believe in ad-hoc software processes for projects. Do you agree with this? Please explain
your answer.

When is a good time for system testing?

Are regression tests required or do you feel there is a better use for resources?

Our software designers use UML for modeling applications. Based on their use cases, we
would like to plan a test strategy. Do you agree with this approach or would this mean more
effort for the testers.

Tell me about a difficult time you had at work and how you worked through it.

Give me an example of something you tried at work but did not work out so you had to go at
things another way.

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
Test Automation
What automating testing tools are you familiar with?
How did you use automating testing tools in your job?

Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool.

How do you plan test automation?

Can test automation improve test effectiveness?

What is data - driven automation?

What are the main attributes of test automation?

Does automation replace manual testing?

How will you choose a tool for test automation?

How you will evaluate the tool for test automation?

What are main benefits of test automation?

What could go wrong with test automation?

How you will describe testing activities?

What testing activities you may want to automate?