QA And Testing Faqs

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

What is the relationship between test scripts and test cases?

What goes into a test package?

What test data would you need to test that a specific date occurs on a specific day of week?

How would you prioritize the test?

It is the eleventh hour and we have no test scripts, cases, or data. What would you do first?

How would you communicate defects?

What would you do if management pressure is stating that testing is complete and you feel differently?

It is important to gather actual metrics with this once-in-a-lifetime test?

What would you record about a defect?

How would you categorize the severity of defects?

Where do you imagine you will be spending the bulk of your time?

When do you know you have tested enough?

Who should be involved in each level of testing? What should be their responsibilities?

You have more verifiable QA experience testing:

Java APIs

End user applications using third-party automated test tools

End user applications using manual testing and in-house test tools

Your professional experience debugging, developing test cases and running system tests for developed subsystems and features is:

N/A - I do not have experience in these areas.

I have this experience on 1 to 3 commercial product launches or product integrations.

I have this experience on 4 to 6 commercial product launches or product integrations.

I have this experience on 7 to 10 or more commercial product launches or product integrations.

You have personally created the following number of test plans or test cases:

N/A - I would be new to creating test plans or test cases

For 1 to 3 product releases

For 4 to 6 product releases

For 7 to 10 product releases

What is an advantage of black box testing over white box testing:

Tests give confidence that the program meets its specifications

Tests can be done while the program is being written instead of waiting until it is finished

It insures that every piece of code written is tested in some way

Tests give confidence that every part of the code is working

What is an advantage of white box testing over black box testing:

Tests can discover that some code is missing

Tests can be done while the program is being written instead of waiting until it is finished

Tests can be designed before a program is written

Tests give confidence that the program meets its specifications

Your experience with Programming within the context of Quality Assurance is:

N/A - I have no programming experience in C, C++ or Java.

You have done some programming in my role as a QA Engineer, and am comfortable meeting such requirements in Java, C and C++ or VC++.

You have developed applications of moderate complexity that have taken up to three months to complete.

Your skill in maintaining and debugging an application is best described as:

N/A - You have not participated in debugging a product.

You have worked under the mentorship of a team lead to learn various debugging techniques and strategies.

You have both an interest in getting to the root of a problem and understand the steps You need to take to document it fully for the developer.

You am experienced in working with great autonomy on debugging/maintenance efforts and have a track record of successful projects You can discuss.

Why does testing not prove a program is 100 percent correct (except for extremely simple programs)?

Because we can only test a finite number of cases, but the program may have an infinite number of possible combinations of inputs and outputs

Because the people who test the program are not the people who write the code

Because the program is too long

All of the above

We CAN prove a program is 100 percent correct by testing

Which statement regarding Validation is correct?

It refers to the set of activities that ensures the software has been built according to the customer's requirements.

It refers to the set of activities that ensure the software correctly implements specific functions.

What is unit testing?

A technique to ensure that every unique sequence of commands through a program is executed

Testing pieces of a program (usually classes) independently using test drivers and/or stubs

Testing using inputs that are derived from a statement of what the program is supposed to do

Testing of increasingly more complete versions of a program

Which of the following is used to determine whether all reported bugs have indeed been fixed, and no new ones introduced:

Regression

Matrix

Performance

Functional

White Box

Which of the following is not correct regarding the purpose of testing:

To verify that a program works correctly

To verify that a program matches the initial specifications

To prove a program is 100 percent correct in all cases

To uncover bugs that are then fixed via debugging

Which of the following testing strategies ignores the internal structure of the software?

Interface testing

Top down testing

White box testing

Black box testing

Sandwich testing

What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?

What did you include in a test plan?

Describe any bug you remember.

What is the purpose of the testing?

What do you like (not like) in this job?

What is quality assurance?

What is the difference between QA and testing?

How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?

What is the role of QA in a development project?

What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?

Define quality for me as you understand it

Describe to me the difference between validation and verification.

Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a process.

Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and effect analysis.

Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it.

What are the properties of a good requirement?

How do you differentiate the roles of Quality Assurance Manager and Project Manager?

Tell me about any quality efforts you have overseen or implemented. Describe some of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them.

How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?

In general, how do you see automation fitting into the overall process of testing?

How do you promote the concept of phase containment and defect prevention?

If you come onboard, give me a general idea of what your first overall tasks will be

as far as starting a quality effort.

What kinds of testing have you done?

Have you ever created a test plan?

Have you ever written test cases or did you just execute those written by others?

What did your base your test cases?

You are the test manager starting on system testing. The development team says that due to a change in the requirements, they will be able to deliver the system for SQA 5 days past the deadline. You cannot change the resources (work hours, days, or test tools). What steps will you take to be able to finish the testing in time?

Your company is about to roll out an e-commerce application. It’s not possible to test the application on all types of browsers on all platforms and operating systems. What steps would you take in the testing environment to reduce the business risks and commercial risks?

In your organization, testers are delivering code for system testing without performing unit testing.

Give an example of

test policy:

Policy statement

Methodology

Measurement

Testers in your organization are performing tests on the deliverables even after significant defects have been found. This has resulted in unnecessary testing of little value, because re-testing needs to be done after defects have been rectified. You are going to update the test plan with recommendations on when to halt testing. What recommendations are you going to make?

How do you measure:

Test Effectiveness

Test Efficiency

You found out the senior testers are making more mistakes then junior testers; you need to communicate this aspect to the senior tester. Also, you don’t want to lose this tester. How should one go about constructive criticism?

You are assigned to be the test lead for a new program that will automate take-offs and landings at an airport. How would you write a test strategy for this new program?

How do you determine what to test?

How do you decide when you have 'tested enough?'

How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the product?

Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report?

How do you perform regression testing?

At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your opinion?

How do you analyze your test results? What metrics do you try to provide?

Realising you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first?

Where do you get your expected results?

If automating - what is your process for determining what to automate and in what order?

In the past, I have been asked to verbally start mapping out a test plan for a common situation, such as an ATM. The interviewer might say, "Just thinking out loud, if you were tasked to test an ATM, what items might you test plan include?" These type questions are not meant to be answered conclusively, but it is a good way for the interviewer to see how you approach the task.

If you're given a program that will average student grades, what kinds of inputs would you use?

Tell me about the best bug you ever found.

What made you pick testing over another career?

What is the exact difference between Integration & System testing, give me examples with your project.

How did you go about testing a project?

When should testing start in a project? Why?

How do you go about testing a web application?

Difference between Black & White box testing

What is Configuration management? Tools used?

What do you plan to become after say 2-5yrs (Ex: QA Manager, Why?)

Would you like to work in a team or alone, why?

Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours

Why do you want to join our company?

When should testing be stopped?

What sort of things would you put down in a bug report?

Who in the company is responsible for Quality?

Who defines quality?

What is an equivalence class?

Is a "A fast database retrieval rate" a testable requirement?

Should we test every possible combination/scenario for a program?

What criteria do you use when determining when to automate a test or leave it manual?

When do you start developing your automation tests?

Discuss what test metrics you feel are important to publish an organization?

In case anybody cares, here are the questions that I will be asking:

Describe the role that QA plays in the software lifecycle.

What should Development require of QA?

What should QA require of Development?

How would you define a "bug?"

Give me an example of the best and worst experiences you've had with QA.

How does unit testing play a role in the development / software lifecycle?

Explain some techniques for developing software components with respect to testability.

Describe a past experience with implementing a test harness in the development of software.

Have you ever worked with QA in developing test tools? Explain the participation

Development should have with QA in leveraging such test tools for QA use.

Give me some examples of how you have participated in Integration Testing.

How would you describe the involvement you have had with the bug-fix cycle between Development and QA?

What is unit testing?

Describe your personal software development process.

How do you know when your code has met specifications?

How do you know your code has met specifications when there are no specifications?

Describe your experiences with code analyzers.

How do you feel about cyclomatic complexity?

Who should test your code?

How do you survive chaos?

What processes/methodologies are you familiar with?

What type of documents would you need for QA/QC/Testing?

How can you use technology to solve problem?

What type of metrics would you use?

How to find that tools work well with your existing system?

What automated tools are you familiar with?

How well you work with a team?

How would you ensure 100% coverage of testing?

How would you build a test team?

What problem you have right now or in the past? How you solved it?

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?

Who is Kent Beck, Dr Grace Hopper, Dennis Ritchie?

What are basic, core, practises 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 CMM and CMMI? What is the difference?

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¶is 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 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?

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 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.

Is automation (or testing) a label for other problems?

Are testers trying to use automation to prove their prowess?

Can testability features be added to the product code?

Do testers and developers work cooperatively and with mutual respect?

Is automation is developed on an iterative basis?

Have you defined the requirements and success criteria for automation?

Are you open to different concepts of what test automation can mean?

Is test automation lead by someone with an understanding of both programming and testing?

Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?

What is the testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases?

What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?

What is Negative testing?

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?

How would you define Quality Assurance?

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 the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you worked?

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?

Define each of the following and explain how each relates to the other: Unit, System, and Integration testing.

Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.

Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.

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 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. - Answer-Rerun baseline and future date input files same # of days as future dated run of program with change. Now run a file compare against the baseline future dated output and the changed programs' future dated output.

What is the structure of the company?

Who is going to do the interview-possible background information of interviewer?

What is the employer's environment (platforms, tools, etc.)?

What are the employer's methods and processes used in software arena?

What is the employer's philosophy?

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?

Describe common problems of test automation.

What types of scripting techniques for test automation do you know?

What are principles of good testing scripts for automation?

What tools are available for support of testing during software development life cycle?

Can the activities of test case design be automated?

What are the limitations of automating software testing?

What skills needed to be a good test automator?

How to find that tools work well with your existing system?

Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool.

What are the main attributes of test automation?

What testing activities you may want to automate in a project?

How to find that tools work well with your existing system?

What criteria would you use to select Web transactions for load testing?

For what purpose are virtual users created?

Why it is recommended to add verification checks to your all your scenarios?

In what situation would you want to parameterize a text verification check?

Why do you need to parameterize fields in your virtual user script?

What are the reasons why parameterization is necessary when load testing the Web server and the database server?

How can data caching have a negative effect on load testing results?

What usually indicates that your virtual user script has dynamic data that is dependent on you parameterized fields?

What are the benefits of creating multiple actions within any virtual user script?

How you used WinRunner in your project?

Explain WinRunner testing process?

What is contained in the GUI map in WinRunner?

How does WinRunner recognize objects on the application?

Have you created test scripts and what is contained in the test scripts in WinRunner?

How does WinRunner evaluate test results?

Have you performed debugging of the scripts in WinRunner?

How do you run your test scripts in WinRunner ?

How do you analyze results and report the defects in WinRunner?

What is the use of Test Director software in WinRunner?

Have you integrated your automated scripts from TestDirector in WinRunner?

What is the purpose of loading WinRunner Add-Ins?

What is meant by the logical name of the object in WinRunner?

If the object does not have a name then what will be the logical name in WinRunner?

What is the different between GUI map and GUI map files in WinRunner?

How do you view the contents of the GUI map in WinRunner?

When you create GUI map do you record all the objects of specific objects in WinRunner?

What is load testing?

What is Performance testing?

Explain the Load testing process? LoadRunner Version 7.2

When do you do load and performance Testing?

What are the components of LoadRunner?

What Component of LoadRunner would you use to record a Script?

When do you do load and performance Testing?

What are the components of LoadRunner?

What Component of LoadRunner would you use to play Back the script in multi user mode?

What is a rendezvous point about LoadRunner?

What is a scenario about LoadRunner?

Explain the recording mode for web Vuser script about LoadRunner?

Why do you create parameters about LoadRunner?

What is correlation LoadRunner? Explain the difference between automatic correlation and manual correlation?

How do you find out where correlation is required LoadRunner? Give few examples from your projects?

Where do you set automatic correlation options about LoadRunner?

When do you disable log in Virtual User Generator, When do you choose standard and extended logs about LoadRunner?

What is a function to capture dynamic values in the web Vuser script about LoadRunner?

How do you debug a LoadRunner script?

How do you write user defined functions in LoadRunner?

What are the changes you can make in run-time settings about LoadRunner?

Where do you set Iteration for Vuser testing about LoadRunner?

How do you perform functional testing under load about LoadRunner?

What is Ramp up? How do you set this about LoadRunner?

What is the advantage of running the Vuser as thread? about LoadRunner

If you want to stop the execution of your script on error about LoadRunner, how do you do that?

What is the relation between Response Time and Throughput about LoadRunner?

Explain the Configuration of your systems about LoadRunner?

How do you identify the performance bottlenecks about LoadRunner?

How did you find database related issues about LoadRunner?

What is the difference between Overlay graph and Correlate graph? about LoadRunner

How did you plan the Load? What are the Criteria about LoadRunner?

What does vuser_init action contain about LoadRunner?

What does vuser_end action contain about LoadRunner?

The top management was feeling that when there are any changes in the technology being used, development schedules etc, it was a waste of time to update the Test Plan. Instead, they were emphasizing that you should put your time into testing than working on the test plan. Your Project Manager asked for your opinion. You have argued that Test Plan is very important and you need to update your test plan from time to time. It’s not a waste of time and testing activities would be more effective when you have your plan clear. Use some metrics. How you would support your argument to have the test plan consistently updated all the time.

The QAI is starting a project to put the CSTE certification online. They will use an automated process for recording candidate information, scheduling candidates for exams, keeping track of results and sending out certificates. Write a brief test plan for this new project. The project had a very high cost of testing. After going in detail, someone found out that the testers are spending their time on software that doesn’t have too many defects. How will you make sure that this is correct?

What are the disadvantages of overtesting?

What happens to the test plan if the application has a functionality not mentioned in the requirements?

You are given two scenarios to test. Scenario 1 has only one terminal for entry and processing whereas scenario 2 has several terminals where the data input can be made. Assuming that the processing work is the same, what would be the specific tests that you would perform in Scenario 2, which you would not carry on Scenario 1?

Your customer does not have experience in writing Acceptance Test Plan. How will you do that in coordination with customer? What will be the contents of Acceptance Test Plan?

How do you know when to stop testing?

What can you do if the requirements are changing continuously?

What is the need for Test Planning?

What are the various status reports you will generate to Developers and Senior Management?

Define and explain any three aspects of code review?

Why do you need test planning?

Explain 5 risks in an e-commerce project. Identify the personnel that must be involved in the risk analysis of a project and describe their duties. How will you prioritize the risks?

What are the various status reports that you need generate for Developers and Senior Management?

You have been asked to design a Defect Tracking system. Think about the fields you would specify in the defect tracking system?

Write a sample Test Policy?

Explain the various types of testing after arranging them in a chronological order?

Explain what test tools you will need for client-server testing and why?

Explain what test tools you will need for Web app testing and why?

Explain pros and cons of testing done development team and testing by an independent team?

Differentiate Validation and Verification?

Explain Stress, Load and Performance testing?

Describe automated capture/playback tools and list their benefits?

How can software QA processes be implemented without stifling productivity?

How is testing affected by object-oriented designs?

What is extreme programming and what does it have to do with testing?

Write a test transaction for a scenario where 6.2% of tax deduction for the first $62,000 of income has to be done

What would be the Test Objective for Unit Testing? What are the quality measurements to assure that unit testing is complete?

Prepare a checklist for the developers on Unit Testing before the application comes to testing department.

Draw a pictorial diagram of a report you would create for developers to determine project status.

Draw a pictorial diagram of a report you would create for users and management to determine project status.

What 3 tools would you purchase for your company for use in testing? Justify the need?

Put the following concepts, put them in order, and provide a brief description of each:

system testing

acceptance testing

unit testing

integration testing

benefits realization testing

What are two primary goals of testing?

If your company is going to conduct a review meeting, who should be on the review committe and why?

Write any three attributes which will impact the Testing Process?

What activity is done in Acceptance Testing, which is not done in System testing?

You are a tester for testing a large system. The system data model is very large with many attributes and there are a lot of inter-dependencies within the fields. What steps would you use to test the system and also what are the effects of the steps you have taken on the test plan?

Explain and provide examples for the following black box techniques?

Boundary Value testing

Equivalence testing

Error Guessing

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