- Software Testing: Interview Questions - Book Cover
- Software Testing: Interview Questions - Title Page
- Copyright Page
- What’s on the CD
- About this book (1/3)
- About this book (2/3)
- About this book (3/3)
- How to Read This Book
- Contents (1/2)
- Contents (2/2)
- Chapter 1 Software Testing Basics
- (B) In which software life cycle phase does testing occur?
- (B) Can you explain the PDCA cycle and where testing fitS IN?
- (B) What is the difference between white box, black box, and gray box testing?
- (B) What is the difference between a defect and a failure?
- (B) What are the categories of defects?
- (B) What is the difference between verification and validation?
- (B) How does testing affect risk?
- (B) Does an increase in testing always improve the project?
- (I) How do you define a testing policy?
- (B) Should testing be done only after the build and execution phases are complete?
- (B) Are there more defects in the design phase or in the coding phase?
- (B) What kind of input do we need from the end user to begin proper testing?
- (B) What is the difference between latent and masked defects?
- (B) A defect which could have been removed during the initial stage is removed in a later stage. How does this affect cost?
- (I) Can you explain the workbench concept?
- (B) What’s the difference between alpha and beta testing?
- (I) Can you explain the concept of defect cascading?
- (B) Can you explain how one defect leads to other defects?
- (B) Can you explain usability testing?
- (B) What are the different strategies for rollout to end users?
- (I) Can you explain requirement traceability and its importance?
- (B) What is the difference between pilot and beta testing?
- (B) How do you perform a risk analysis during software testing?
- (B) How do you conclude which section is most risky in your application?
- (B) What does entry and exit criteria mean in a project?
- (B) On what basis is the acceptance plan prepared?
- (B) What’s the relationship between environment reality and test phases?
- (B) What are different types of verifications?
- (B) What’s the difference between inspections and walkthroughs?
- (B) Can you explain regression testing and confirmation testing?
- (I) What is coverage and what are the different types of coverage techniques?
- (A) How does a coverage tool work?
- (B) What is configuration management?
- (B) Can you explain the baseline concept in software development?
- (B) What are the different test plan documents in a project?
- (B) How do test documents in a project span across the software development lifecycle?
- (A) Can you explain inventories?
- (A) How do you do analysis and design for testing projects?
- (A) Can you explain calibration?
- (B) Which test cases are written first: white boxes or black boxes?
- (I) Can you explain cohabiting software?
- (B) What impact ratings have you used in your projects?
- (B) What is a test log?
- (I) Explain the SDLC (Software Development LifeCycle) in detail.
- (I) Can you explain the Waterfall Model?
- (I) Can you explain the Big-Bang Waterfall Model?
- (I) Can you explain the Phased Waterfall Model?
- (I) Explain the Iterative model, Incremental model, Spiral model, Evolutionary Model and the V-Model?
- (I) Explain Unit Testing, Integration Tests, System Testing and Acceptance Testing? (1/2)
- (I) Explain Unit Testing, Integration Tests, System Testing and Acceptance Testing? (2/2)
- (I) What’s the difference between System Testing and Acceptance Testing?
- (I) Which is the best model?
- (I) What group of teams can do software testing?
- Chapter 2 Testing Techniques
- (B) Can you explain boundary value analysis?
- (B) What is a boundary value in software testing?
- (B) Can you explain equivalence partitioning?
- (B) Can you explain how the state transition diagrams can be helpful during testing?
- (B) Can you explain random testing?
- (B) Can you explain monkey testing?
- (B) What is negative and positive testing?
- (I) Can you explain exploratory testing?
- (A) What are semi-random test cases?
- (I) What is an orthogonal arrays?
- (I) Can you explain a pair-wise defect?
- (I) Can you explain decision tables?
- (B) H ow did you define severity ratings in yourproject?
- Chapter 3 The Software Process
- Chapter 4 CMMI
- (B) What is CMMI and what’s the advantage of implementing it in an organization?
- (I) What’s the difference between implementation and institutionalization?
- (I) What are different models in CMMI?
- (I) Can you explain staged and continuous models in CMMI?
- (I) Can you explain the different maturity levels in a staged representation?
- (I) Can you explain capability levels in a continuous representation?
- (I) Which model should we use and under what scenarios?
- (A) How many process areas are present in CMMI and what classification do they fall in?
- (B) Can you define all the levels in CMMI?
- (I) What different sources are needed to verify authenticity for CMMI implementation?
- (I) Can you explain the SCAMPI process?
- (I) How is appraisal done in CMMI?
- (I) Which appraisal method class is best?
- (I) Can you explain the importance of PII in SCAMPI?
- (A) Can you explain implementation of CMMI in one of the Key process areas?
- (B) What are all the process areas and goals and practices?
- (A) Can you explain all the process areas?
- Chapter 5 Six Sigma
- (B) What is Six Sigma?
- (I) Can you explain the different methodology for the execution and the design process stages in Six Sigma?
- (I) What are executive leaders, champions, master black belts, green belts, and black belts?
- (I) What are the different kinds of variations used in Six Sigma?
- (A) Can you explain standard deviation?
- (B) Can you explain the fish bone/Ishikawa diagram?
- Chapter 6 Metrics
- (B) What is meant by measures and metrics?
- (I) Can you explain how the number of defects are measured?
- (I) Can you explain how the number of production defects are measured?
- (I) Can you explain defect seeding?
- (I) Can you explain DRE?
- (B) Can you explain unit and system test DRE?
- (I) How do you measure test effectiveness?
- (B) Can you explain defect age and defect spoilage?
- Chapter 7 Automated Testing
- (B) What are good candidates for automation in testing?
- (B) Does automation replace manual testing?
- (I) Which automation tools have you worked with and can you explain them briefly? (1/2)
- (I) Which automation tools have you worked with and can you explain them briefly? (2/2)
- (I) How does load testing work for websites?
- (A) Can you give an example showing load testing for Websites? (1/2)
- (A) Can you give an example showing load testing for Websites? (2/2)
- (I) What does the load test summary report contain?
- (I) Can you explain data-driven testing?
- (I) Can you explain table-driven testing?
- (I) H ow can you perform data-driven testing usingAutomated QA?
- Chapter 8 Testing Estimation
- (B) What are the different ways of doing black box testing?
- (B) Can you explain TPA analysis?
- (A) Can you explain function points?
- (B) Can you explain an Application boundary?
- (B) Can you explain the elementary process?
- (B) Can you explain the concept of the static and dynamic elementary processes?
- (I) Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? (1/5)
- (I) Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? (2/5)
- (I) Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? (3/5)
- (I) Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? (4/5)
- (I) Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? (5/5)
- (A) How can you estimate the number of acceptance test cases in a project? (1/2)
- (A) How can you estimate the number of acceptance test cases in a project? (2/2)
- (A) Can you explain how TPA w orks?
- (A) How do you create an estimate for black box testing? (1/2)
- (A) How do you create an estimate for black box testing? (2/2)
- (A) How do you estimate white box testing?
- (A) Is there a way to estimate acceptance test casesin a system?
- Appendix A About the CD-ROM
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
- Back Cover
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A software process is a series of steps used to solve a problem. The following
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solve risk problems. In the diagram we have shown two branches: one is
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Figure 66 Software process
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