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1. Tell about your testing career?
2. Interesting defect, Worst defect, Adhoc testing defect, Critical defect?
3. Why Adhoc testing is required and when do we do it?
4. When developer is not ready to accept your defect how will you
convince him?
5. Why you go for review of test cases?
6. What are all the criteria for reviewing test cases?
7. When do you prepare Trace ability matrix and why it is required?
8. Difference between Review and Trace ability matrix?
9. On what basis will you review the requirement specification?
10. What all you will find in your requirement specification?
11. In your team there are around 10 members your lead does not like
only you. How do
you react for this?
12. What is Equivalence Class and Equivalence partitioning?
13. There are 3 types of files allowed to upload it to an application. The
supported files are
.doc, .xls. ppt. what is the equivalence class?
14. Test case design techniques
15. Defect tracking
16. SDLC and STLC
17. Test Plan
18. Negative test cases written for your project?
19. What is your daily routine as soon as you enter the company?
20. Tell me about your 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses?
21. On the previous day of the release you will get a critical defect
wherein on fixing this
Defect, it impacts on many areas of your project. What will you do at
this situation, will you log the defect?
22. Architecture of your project?
23. Difference between Standalone, Client/Server and Web application?
24. How will you test a Web application?
25. Difference between Web server and Application server?
26. How will you perform Security testing?
27. Difference between Smoke and Sanity testing?
28. Testing methodologies
29. How will you get build? For how many days you will get a build?
30. How will you communicate with your developers?
31. Templates of test case, Test plan, Trace ability matrix, Test case
review, Test
execution report, Defect report?
32. Scenarios on test case design techniques?
33. A text box accepts values 21 and 100-200.Use test case design
techniques and write
the test data?

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34. Difference between testing environment and Production
environment?
35. How will you do Test case prioritization?
36. What is test preparation?
37. At what stage you will start testing?
38. What is the last stage of testing?
39. When do you stop testing?
40. What is verification and validation?
41. What is Walkthrough, inspection and review?
42. What is static and dynamic testing?
43. What is parallel testing?
44. What is the difference between Development Server and Test Server?
45. Difference between Regression and Retesting?
46. What are the criteria for usability testing? How u prepare usability
checklist?
47. What is performance testing, load, stress, volume and soak testing?
48. Difference between XP and Vista?
49. Why are you looking for a job change?
50. Why you choose testing as your career and why not development?
51. Tell me the URL of your client/server or web application?
52. Why developer can’t test the application?
53. What should be the tester’s attitude towards application?
54. Why testing is important?
55. What is end user’s testing?
56. Who will do the acceptance testing?
57. What is Alpha and Beta testing?
58. How do you defend yourself as a hard worker/Smart worker?
59. What do you mean by quality? What measures you will take to make
your product as a quality product?
60. Tell Functional testing, Integration Testing and system testing
Scenarios of your
application?
61. Difference between system and end-to-end testing?
62. What is Severity and Priority?
63. One example of Low Severity and Low Priority, High Severity and Low
Priority, Low
Severity and High Priority, High Severity and High Priority?
64. How will you prepare your weekly report or status report?
65. What is test execution cycle?
66. What are the contents of release notes?
67. Difference between Defect, Bug, Failure and Error?
68. To whom you log your defects?
69. When do you go for test automation?
70. What is the difference between Test plan and Test strategy?
71. What is a Milestone? How many milestone you have in your project?
72. What is agile methodology?

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73. If a defect occurs in the product who is responsible?
74. Whether your test cases cover all the scenarios?
75. What are the deliverables you provide to the client while releasing
the product?
76. I will give you a complex application to test it in 3 days. How will you
test it within that
short span of time?
77. Difference between 2-tier and 3-tier application?
78. What are all the attributes of your defect-tracking tool?
79. How do you search a particular defect?
80. Email notification settings?
81. What setup is required in testing server?
82. Total no of test cases and defects in your application you wrote?
83. How many test cases you write everyday?
84. Ratio of developer and tester for a project?
85. Difference between Version, Release and Build?
86. For which type of testing we have to write test cases?
87. Whether java, .net etc., should be installed while you are testing the
respective
application?
88. Difference between HTTP and WWW?
89. What are the criteria to identify test cases for regression testing?
90. Negative test cases for Find and Replace?
91. Difference between path coverage, branch coverage, condition
coverage and
statement coverage?
92. Write test cases for search web page like goggle? Write high-level
test cases for it?
How to write for advanced search and search button?
93. How do you maintain regression test cases?
94. What we normally check for in the database resting?
95. Why UNIX is required for TE? what is the role of TE if he knows UNIX?
96. What is the document that development team passes while passing
the build for
testing? How do they communicate?
97. Can we write test cases by seeing design document?
98. How do you maintain regression test cases??
99. What is the document that development team passes while passing
build for testing
how they communicate when the build is passed for testing?

100. How to write a Test Case for Opening a Bank Account?

101. If HLD (High Level Design doc) and the CRS (Client Requirement
Specification)are
different then in which basis we write a test cases?

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102. How would test Internet explorer --given the condition that you don’t
have any
documents?? How would you plan your test cases? What type of test
cases you can write?

103. Write test cases for satellite?

104. There are 3 mandatory fields and 3 optional fields: How many
possible test cases can
be written? How many positive test cases can be written?

105. Write test cases for ordinary calculator like+, -, %, *, /, square root
using test
scenarios?

106. What is the difference between Business Requirement

Document/Functional
requirements Specification/Software Requirement Specification?
107. Write the test cases for Date field and time field?
108. How to break a Date field into Year, month, week, day? (For example:
I have a field
INVOICE_DATE. Now i want to break it as Year, month. ..)?

109. Please explain how we can estimate to Prepare test cases and
execution of test
cases. Is there any benchmark…
110. There is French dictionary and if you want to check it in English and
there is no documentation available then how you will test it and
write test cases?
111. Write down test cases for Notepad to "Save/Save as" a file. Write
down Functional, UI,

Performance, Load, Stress Test cases - scenario in "Save/Save as”.

112. What kind of things you have to consider in writing test cases for web
interface testing?
113. If there is a message in the background and there is a popup screen
in the front. How to capture this message
without closing the popup screen.
114. Write test cases for blank screen that it is white. There are no scrolls
appearing on the screen.
115. How can I baseline my requirements?
116. If the requirements are added frequently or some of major
requirements are missing, what do you do?
117. What is the key element of Defect Report and Test case format?
118. What is bi-directional traceability matrix? Give sample format?

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119. Which document is required to write a integration test cases and
what are the steps to write a integration test
cases?
120. How to write test cases for batch processing data files? For Eg: when
applicant data file added, the data should be
converted and formatted and backend
database file is going to updated.
121. Write a test case on a durability of a electric bulb and test it that it
will last for next 10 months?
122. how to test the two different versions of spell check in MS Word in
short span of 30 min. ie suppose the earlier
version of the MS word consisted of say 5000
words and now the new version consists of say
5,00000 words. You now need to test the
functionality of the newer version of spell
check in 30 min. how will you achieve and be
sure of your testing that you have covered the
entire thing. In short what method will you
adopt in such a case?
123. Difference between Requirements Validation Matrix and
Requirements Traceability Matrix.
124. Difference between traceability matrix & cross reference matrix.
125. Write test case for performance of a watch.
126. How we can write the Test Cases for Triggers effectively? Write few
test cases for triggers while mapping a table
into another table of another Database.
127. Suppose that you’ r running tests on the windows calculator and find
that 1/1=2, 2/2=1, 3/3=10, 4/4=1, 5/5=26,
6/6=1. Write a bug title and bug descript.
128. What are triggers in database?
129. How to approach a new project that taken for testing?
130. How will you review test cases?
131. What is the difference between Bug Resolution Meeting and Bug
Review Committee? Who are the participants in
Bug Resolution Meeting and Bug Review
Committee?
132. Report the defect in the defect report form one calculator is doing the
operation like
1+1=2
1+2=3
3+2=6
6+4=7
9.2+2.3=11.5
133. What is the Recovery Scenario can apply for any telephone line
connection Eg, BSNl, Airtel etc.
134. If we found the bug in SRS or FRS, how to categorize that bug?

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135. What is the difference between end to end testing and system testing.
136. What is the difference between a defect and an enhancement?
137. Project is completed. Completed means that UAT testing is going. In
that situation as a tester what will you do?
138. What is the Difference between Project and Product testing? What
difference you have observed while testing the
Clint/Server application and web server
application
139. What are the differences between interface and integration testing? Are
system specification and functional
specification the same? What are the
differences between system and functional
testing?
140. What is Multi Unit testing?
141. What is the difference between Desktop application testing and Web
testing?
142. With multiple testers how does one know which test cases are
assigned to them? ·
143. Folder structure · Test process
144. What is difference between a Test Plan, a Test Strategy, A Test
Scenario, and A Test Case? What’s is their order of succession in the
STLC?
145. Which phase is called as the Blackout or Quite Phase in SDLC?
146. What are the different types, methodologies, approaches, methods in
software testing
147. What is the difference between test techniques and test
methodology?
148. What is meant by test environment,… what is meant by DB installing
and configuring and deploying skills?
149. What is log sheet? And what are the components in it?
150. What is Red Box testing? What is Yellow Box testing? What is Grey Box
testing?
151. What is business process in software testing?
152. When an application is given for testing, with what initial testing the testing
will be started and when are all the different types of testing done
following the initial testing?
153. What is difference between test plan and use case?
154. In an application if I enter the delete button it should give an error
message “Are you sure you want to delete” but the application gives
the message as “Are you sure”. Is it a bug? And if it is how would you
rate its severity?
155. Who are the three stake holders in testing?
156. What is meant by bucket testing?
157. What is test case analysis?
158. The recruiter asked if I have Experience in Pathways. What is this?
159. What is the difference between GUI testing and black box testing

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160. What are the main things we have to keep in mind while writing the
test cases? Explain with format by giving an example
161. How we can write functional and integration test cases? Explain with
format by giving examples.
162. Explain the water fall model and V- model of software development
life cycles with block diagrams.
163. For notepad application can any one write the functional and system
test cases?
164. Can you give me the exact answer for Test Bug?
165. What is installation shield in testing
166. What is one key element of the test case?
167. What are the management tools we have in testing?
168. Can we write Functional test case based on only BRD or only Use
case?
169. What’s main difference between smoke and sanity testing? When are
these performed?
170. What Technical Environments have you worked with?
171. Have you ever converted Test Scenarios into Test Cases?
172. What is the ONE key element of ‘test case’?
173. What is the ONE key element of a Test Plan?
174. What is SQA testing? tell us steps of SQA testing
175. How do you promote the concept of phase containment and defect
prevention?
176. Which Methodology you follow in your test case?
177. What are the test cases prepared by the testing team
178. During the start of the project how will the company come to an
conclusion that tool is required for testing or not?
179. Define Bug Life Cycle? What is Metrics
180. What is a Test procedure
181. What is Traceability Matrix? Is there any interchangeable term for
Traceability Matrix? Are Traceability Matrix and
Test Matrix same or Different?
182. What is the difference between an exception and an error?
183. Correct bug tracking process - Reporting, Re- testing, Debugging, …..?
184. What is the difference between bug and defect?
185. How much time is/should be allocated for testing out of total
Development time based on industry
standards?
186. What are test bugs?
187. Define Quality - bug free, Functionality working or both?
188. What is the purpose of software testing’s - Bug removal, System’s
functionality working, quality or all?
189. Is there any tool to calculate how much time should be allocated for
testing out of total development?
190. What is Scalability testing? Which tool is used?
191. Define Reliability?

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192. Best to solve defects - requirements, plan, design, code / testing phase?
193. Cost of solving a bug from requirements phase to testing phase -
increases slowly, decreases, increases steeply
or remains constant?
194. What is scalability testing? What are the phases of the scalability testing?
195. How many functional testing tools are available? What is the easiest
scripting language used? ]
196. What was the most difficult problem you ever found while testing?
197. What were you responsible to test in your previous company?

198. Why do you like to test?

199. What role do you see yourself in 2-3 years from now?

200. What is verification and validation?

201. How can World Wide Web sites be tested?

202. What consideration u will take while deciding the test cases for
regression testing?

203. What is the use of URL Encode?

204. When we use Sessionless page?

205. How can we provide Client side Security?

206. How the Resources are managed by IIS server?

207. What difference you have observed while testing the Clint/Server
application and web server application?

208. What are the differences between system and functional testing?

209. What are the differences between interface and integration testing?

210. Are system specification and functional specification the same?

211. What are the different types, methodologies, approaches, methods in

software testing?

212. What is the difference between test techniques and test

methodology?

213. How can you verify application behavior?

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214. What are the goals of a performance testing of a web application?

215. Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?

216. How many hours a week should a tester work?

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

218. How do you handle conflict with programmers?

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

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

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

222. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?
223. Tell me about a difficult time you had at work and how you worked
through it.

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

225. Describe three indicators of project status.

226. What is the primary difference between black box and glass box
testing? What kinds of bugs are you more likely
to find with black box testing? With white box?

227. A program asks you to enter a password, and then asks you to enter
it again. The program compares the two entries
and either accepts the password (if they
match) or rejects it (if they don’t). You can
enter letters or digits.
228. How many valid entries could you test? (Please show and/or explain
your calculations.)

229. Why would you use scenario testing instead of domain testing? Why
would you use domain testing instead of
scenario testing?

230. When would you use function testing and what types of bugs would
you expect to find with this style of testing?

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231. What is a test matrix? Explain its elements.

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