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- 1. Interview Questions on SOFTWARE TESTING 1. Define what is Software Testing? 2. What is difference between Severity and Priority? 3. What is difference between Regression and Retesting? 4. What is the Role of the Tester? 5. How will you convince a developer who is not ready to resolve the bug you have raised? 6. What is difference between Debugging and Unit testing? 7. Have you done White Box Testing? Do you know what type of bugs you can trace through this type of testing? 8. What is the important column in Test case? 9. What is the use of any Test Case Management tool? 10. Why Testing is necessary? 11. What is the Bug Life Cycle? 12. How do you decide which test cases to consider for Regression Testing? 13. Is testing QA or QC? 14. Differentiate between Integration Testing and System Testing. 15. Have you participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)? 16. Have you seen a Test Plan? Who prepares it ? 17. What are the various contents of a Test Plan? 18. What methods of Black Box Testing you have used? 19. Do you know Exploratory Testing? 20. What is Prototyping? What are the various types? 21. Define phases of SDLC. 22. Which SDLC model your company follows? 23. When do we write Stubs? 24. What is the use of Driver script? 25. What kinds of reviews are conducted during SDLC phase? 26. What is the role of Metrics in Testing? 27. What are key challenges of Software Testing field? 28. Explain your views about Quality. 29. What is the advantage of using any bug tracking tool. 30. Explain about website Usability testing. 31. What are defect attributes? 32. What is pesticide paradox? 33. Explain V model. 34. What is Load and Stress testing, explain with example 35. Differentiate between Verification and Validation? 36. Explain Boundary Value Analysis with an example. 37. What is the difference between Web application and Client Server Application? 38. What is Localization testing? 39. What is difference between Black box testing and White box testing? 40. What is the difference between Authentication and Authorization give an example. Seed Infotech Page 1
- 2. Interview Questions on SOFTWARE TESTING 41. Other than functionality what else you should test in Web Application? 42. How you know that testing is enough? 43. How will you test the reports? 44. What is compatibility testing? 45. If we test the application on IE 8 then is it necessary to test it on IE 7? 46. Difference between Smoke & Sanity testing. 47. What is the difference between Requirement specification & Functional Specification? 48. On what basis you will decide whether all the requirements are covered in the test cases? 49. What is Database? Which database you are aware of? 50. What is Database Testing? 51. What is Cookies? Any idea on Cookies Testing? 52. Explain Spiral Model? 53. What are Stored Procedures? 54. How many types of Joins are their? 55. What are DML and DDL commands give example. 56. What is Normalization? 57. What is Primary key and Foreign key? 58. What is RDBMS? 59. What is difference between delete & truncate? 60. What design documents you receive from PM? 61. What are documents are created in Design phase? 62. What challenges you have faced in testing so far? 63. Have you seen our company web site? What are the usability defects you have found? 64. Differentiate between Load testing and Stress testing. 65. Which documents does the test team submit during testing period? 66. How will you test an application without and requirement documents? 67. What is windows registry? 68. What is Object, multiple Inheritance and Class in OOPS? 69. What is Multitasking, Multithreading and Multi processing? 70. What is Stack, and Queue in DS? 71. Explain STLC. 72. What is Functional Testing? 73. What activities are done in Inspection. 74. What is Deferred Defect? 75. In Defect Life cycle, you find that the defect is not fixed but the developer says that it is fixed will you every time tell the Project lead about that? 76. What is Equivalence Partitioning? 77. How many regression cycles you have participated in? 78. Realizing you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first? 79. What is SQA? 80. What are the contents of defect report? Seed Infotech Page 2
- 3. Interview Questions on SOFTWARE TESTING 81. Explain RTM template. 82. What is Big Bang type of testing? 83. What is Traceability Matrix & Coverage Matrix? 84. What is a fault, failure & defect? 85. Which is the efficient method to write (a) test scenario (b) Many test cases? 86. What is UAT and Alpha and Beta Testing? 87. Explain doubly and singly linked list? 88. Explain OOPS features? 89. What are the key challenges in testing? 90. What is Hot fix? 91. Where Exit and Entry Criteria are written in Test Plan? 92. What are different scenarios for verifying Email address? 93. What is the query for update table? 94. If there is mistake in company Logo, what is Priority and Severity Justify your answer? 95. Can Stub/Driver be use as an independent module? 96. Who prepares Test Plan in your organization? 97. Where feature to be tested and features not to be tested are written in test plan? 98. What is Test Strategy and Test Approach. 99. What is the data flow in your project? 100. Where Regression Testing comes in Defect Life Cycle 101. What is deference between Integration and System Testing 102. Examples of Non-Functional Testing? 103. What is difference between QC and QA? 104. If 4 modules are there like A, B, C and D. All are dependent on each other. If changes is done to Module C. Will you perform Regression Testing? If yes how many test case you run again? 105. How much test cases you wrote in a single day? 106. Are you submitting the defects you found each day or submit them when you finish a complete module? 107. What is Data Migration Testing? What are the different approaches followed in Data Migration? 108. What are broken links? 109. What is Closer Report? 110. What is System Testing? 111. What type of testing should we performed while testing a website 112. What is Security Testing? Different aspect we should cover while doing security Testing 113. Arrange the following testing types in sequence in which we test any application Functional Smoke Integration System Sanity Retesting Regression 114. If same software convert English language PDF file to Spanish language word file And some lines are showing the converted data like @#$#$%#$%$#%$% (special Character). Then is it a functional issue or usability issue. 115. If any bug is reproducible only on Testing server and not on Development server, how you make sure that the developer fixes that bug . Seed Infotech Page 3
- 4. Interview Questions on SOFTWARE TESTING 116. If any bug is reproducible at client side (in production environment) not in the test environment what are the different possibilities that this scenario occurs. 117. What is security testing? 118. What is Installation Testing? 119. What is Application Server? Give example. 120. Have you come across any severe bugs in your application and did you contribute so that it gets resolved. 121. Have you ever prepared Test Plan? 122. How you define Severity to a Bug? 123 You are given little understanding of application, how much time will you take to understand it? 124. What do you think why software has bugs? 125. Explain error guessing with an example. 126. In bug life cycle, who opens the bug? 127. What is Compatibility, Multiplatform and Configuration testing? 128. What are Session and Cookies and what is difference between them? 129. What is the process followed in your company for testing? 130. What is Mutation testing? 131. Difference between Ad-hoc & Exploratory testing? 132. What is Test Suit? 133. How you are tracking defects? 134. What Qualities does QA Engineer Require? 135. What are CMM Levels? 136. Does Code review come under white box testing? 137. You have been given a form, how will you test it? 138. What is Static and what is Dynamic Web Page? 139. Difference between HTTP and HTTPS? Explain how the data is secured in HTTPS? 140. Have you heard of Agile Methodology? Explain? 141. Have you used any Configuration Management tool? 142. Do we always need to do regression after retesting? 143. What is Web server? Which web servers you know? 144. What is Inter-system testing? Have you done that? 145. What is a build? What is the release? 146. What is production server? 147. What is Recovery Testing? 148. Any disadvantages of V model? 149. What are the properties of a good Requirements Document? 150. What is Accessibility Testing? 151. Write test cases on : Chess board, white board, pen, water bottle, elevator, telephone instrument, mobile SMS service, ATM, Ceiling fan Seed Infotech Page 4
- 5. Interview Questions on SOFTWARE TESTING Project specific Questions 1. What was the duration of your project? 2. Explain about your project. 3. How many testers were their on this project. 4. According to you which was the complex part of the project from testing point of view. 5. How did you do the testing of your project? 6. How many test cases have you designed? How many you wrote in a day? 7. How many bugs did you find? 8. Tell me any high Severity bugs that you found. 9. What happens when the client changes requirements? 10. Which tool you used for defect reporting? 11. What is the database used for your project. 12. In which technology this application is developed? Company specific Questions 1. Where are you working currently? 2. How that Seed has sent you here for an interview when you are working in the same company. 3. Where it is located? 4. How many testers and developers are their? 5. Are testers and developers sitting at same location? 6. What is the hierarchy in testing team? 7. Whom do you report to? 8. Is this a dummy project? 9. How do you come to know about your tasks? 10. Are you a permanent employee? 11. How long you are working in Seed? 12. Can you name some clients of your company? HR Questions 1. Introduce yourself. 2. What are your strengths? 3. What are your weaknesses? 4. What you do not like in this world? 5. How do you commute? 6. Are you a team player? 7. How long will you take to join? 8. Are you ready to work on contract position? 9. Where would you like to see yourself 5 years down the line. 10. Are you a permanent employee? Seed Infotech Page 5
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