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I would like to start with some of the general question you may face in
every interview.

1. Tell me about yourself?

First and most popular question in any interview (not just in Software
Testing interview)

Start with your name (if they didnt mention your name before this
question), your degree and university (Also you could mention your
aggregate percentage).

If you are a fresher, tell something about the trainings which you have
taken up related to job, also mention about your final year project.
Mention some of your achievements. Conclude here and ask whether they
have any further questions which they would like to know about you.

If you are an experienced, start with your position and roles and
responsibilities at current employer and go on with other employers (go
on in a reverse chronological order). Mention tools (automation tools or
defect tracking tools or project management tools etc.,) which you have
used. Also mention your achievements and conclude here and ask
whether they have any further questions which they would like to know
about you.

Key Note: Stick to your career, education and achievements. Interviewer

wont show any interest on your family story.

2. What is your Strength?

Mention some strength of yours. Your strength should sounds like it would
help the organization in positive way.
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3. What is your Weakness?

Dont ever tell that you dont have any weaknesses. Mention at least one
weakness which you had and mention how you did overcome it.

4. Why do we hire you?

Tell how successful you are in your current and previous roles and
mention your achievements in previous companies and how you made
your managers happy. Tell your technical skills in detail and tell I believe
I have all the qualities you are looking for.

If you are a fresher, you could tell that how well you managed to deliver
university project on time and made your staff happy and tell what you
learnt about testing and your technical skills.

5. Why did you leave your previous job?

This is to know on what kind of situation you decided to move on from

previous job.

Dont answer that the work was no longer interesting or dont blame
previous organization or colleagues. Try to emphasis your
accomplishments and mention you are ready to take new challenges.

6. What are your goals for the future?

List out your goals and segregate them as short term and long term
goals. While telling about your goals, just stick related to your career.

7. Why you choose Software Testing as a career?

Why did you choose Software Testing as a career is one of the most
common questions in the interview process. So get ready with an answer
which impresses the interviewer. Jot down some points that relate to your
own strengths and experience related to this and get ready with the
answer. Dont memorize and answer in the interview.
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Each career path is unique, we cant deny it. If you are looking to become
a Software Tester or you are already a Software Tester then you have to
give some good answer which impresses the interviewer.

Once completed the graduation, we will be in a chaos to choose our

career path. Some myths in industry related to choosing Software Testing
as a career are

1. Anyone can test. Development is better than testing

2. Salaries will be less compared to Developers in the industry
3. Only the people who cant code choose Software Testing as a career
4. There wont be any growth in Software Testing.

Gone are the days, see the below points to the above mentioned myths.
If you are in a chaos in choosing Software Testing as a career then these
points make you strengthen to choose software testing as career (or) if
you are already working as a Software Tester and worrying about your
career growth then these points prove you that you have chosen a right
career path.

1. Not everyone can test. One should need good analytical skills to
become a Software Tester. You need to be good at communication
skills for reporting and convincing other
2. Salary may be less when you start your career. Experienced Testers
are earning same level of package compared to Developers. Many
companies are offering much more salaries to the Automation
Testers compared to Developers
3. Its an old myth in industry that one who cant code can be a
Software Tester. Record and playback days were gone. Its an
automation age. An Automation Tester writes code to automate the
scripts
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4. Growth Tester will become Test Lead, Project Lead, Automation

Architect, Test Manager etc., Ultimately everyone reaches to the
manager level

Software testing as a career why I chose?

Simple answer is I love to be a Software Tester. So, I chose Software

Testing as career. I would like to mention few more points why I love to
be a Software tester and chose Software Testing as career.

I love solving logical puzzles. Testing is kind of solving logical puzzle.

We will be given a software which will go straight to the market if we nod
our head that there are no bugs in the software and ready to release. We,
the Testers are the protectors at the gateway. We not only find the bugs.
We break the system too in terms of stress testing.

I love helping others. I proudly say that as a Software Tester, I do

help in releasing a quality product to the market. I can help in finding
bugs which are hidden in the software. Even though Developers do their
best to release a good product, there will be some mistakes.

I love to take challenges. In many projects we need to do testing

without having specification documents. Its a big challenge to explore the
system and find the bugs. Domain knowledge is also one of the biggest
challenges a tester faces. We, the testers do explore the system and
struggle to understand and finding bugs and report to fix and deliver a
quality product to the market.

I love to write code too. Yeah, I am an Automation Tester. Who said

one who cant code can choose a career in software testing. As an
Automation Tester I write code to find the bugs in the system and
involving in deliver the quality product.

I love to interact with people. As a Software Tester, I could get a lot of

opportunities to interact with people (not only peers, I could discuss with
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Stakeholder). Testers need to know all parts of the application which they
are going to test. So we need to discuss with clients too to get more
information on domain knowledge. This way we could meet many people
to share knowledge.

I love to be in a team where quality products will be

delivered. Customers spend lots of money to buy a product. No
customer will be happy, if the product doesnt work as intended. I play a
role where I can deliver a quality product which not only make customer
just happy, it makes customer delight.

Final words: My work helps stakeholders sleep better.

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1. What is Software Testing?

According to ANSI/IEEE 1059 standard A process of analyzing a

software item to detect the differences between existing and required
conditions (i.e., defects) and to evaluate the features of the software
item. Click here for more details.

2. What are Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

Quality Assurance: Quality Assurance involves in process oriented

activities. It ensures the prevention of defects in the process used to
make Software Application. So the defects dont arise when the Software
Application is being developed.

Quality Control: Quality Control involves in product oriented activities. It

executes the program or code to identify the defects in the Software
Application.

3. What is Verification in software testing?

Verification is the process, to ensure that whether we are building the

product right i.e., to verify the requirements which we have and to verify
whether we are developing the product accordingly or not. Activities
involved here are Inspections, Reviews, and Walk-throughs. Click here for
more details.

4. What is Validation in software testing?

Validation is the process, whether we are building the right product i.e.,
to validate the product which we have developed is right or not. Activities
involved in this is Testing the software application. Click here for more
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5. What is Static Testing?

Static Testing involves in reviewing the documents to identify the defects

in the early stages of SDLC.

6. What is Dynamic Testing?

Dynamic testing involves in execution of code. It validates the output with

the expected outcome.

7. What is White Box Testing?

White Box Testing is also called as Glass Box, Clear Box, and Structural
Testing. It is based on applications internal code structure. In white-box
testing an internal perspective of the system, as well as programming
skills, are used to design test cases. This testing usually done at the unit
level. Click here for more details.

8. What is Black Box Testing?

Black Box Testing is a software testing method in which testers evaluate

the functionality of the software under test without looking at the internal
code structure. This can be applied to every level of software testing such
as Unit, Integration, System and Acceptance Testing. Click here for more
details.

9. What is Grey Box Testing?

Grey box is the combination of both White Box and Black Box Testing. The
tester who works on this type of testing needs to have access to design
documents. This helps to create better test cases in this process.
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10. What is Positive and Negative Testing?

Positive Testing: It is to determine what system supposed to do. It

helps to check whether the application is justifying the requirements or
not.

Negative Testing: It is to determine what system not supposed to do. It

helps to find the defects from the software.

11. What is Test Strategy?

Test Strategy is a high level document (static document) and

usually developed by project manager. It is a document which captures
the approach on how we go about testing the product and achieve the
goals. It is normally derived from the Business Requirement Specification
(BRS). Documents like Test Plan are prepared by keeping this document
as base. Click here for more details.

12. What is Test Plan and contents available in a Test Plan?

Test plan document is a document which contains the plan for all the
testing activities to be done to deliver a quality product. Test Plan
document is derived from the Product Description, SRS, or Use Case
documents for all future activities of the project. It is usually prepared by
the Test Lead or Test Manager.

1. Test plan identifier

2. References
3. Introduction
4. Test items (functions)
5. Software risk issues
6. Features to be tested
7. Features not to be tested
8. Approach
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9. Items pass/fail criteria

10. Suspension criteria and resolution requirements
11. Test deliverables
12. Remaining test tasks
13. Environmental needs
14. Staff and training needs
15. Responsibility
16. Schedule
17. Plan risks and contingencies
18. Approvals
19. Glossaries

Click here for more details.

13. What is Test Suite?

Test Suite is a collection of test cases. The test cases which are intended
to test an application.

14. What is Test Scenario?

Test Scenario gives the idea of what we have to test. Test Scenario is like
a high level test case.

15. What is Test Case?

Test cases are the set of positive and negative executable steps of a test
scenario which has a set of pre-conditions, test data, expected result,
post-conditions and actual results. Click here for more details.

16. What is Test Bed?

An environment configured for testing. Test bed consists of hardware,

software, network configuration, application under test, other related
softwares.
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17. What is Test Environment?

Test Environment is the combination of hardware and software on which

Test Team performs testing.

Example:

Application Type: Web Application

OS: Windows
Web Server: IIS
Web Page Design: Dot Net
Client Side Validation: Java Script
Server Side Scripting: ASP Dot Net
Database: MS SQL Server
Browser: IE/Firefox/Chrome

18. What is Test Data?

Test data is the data that is used by the testers to run the test cases.
Whilst running the test cases, testers need to enter some input data. To
do so, testers prepare test data. It can be prepared manually and also by
using tools.

For example, to test a basic login functionality having user id, password
fields. We need to enter some data in the user id and password fields. So
we need to collect some test data.

19. What is Test Harness?

Test harness is the collection of software and test data configured to test
a program unit by running it under varying conditions which involves
monitoring the output with expected output.
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20. What is Test Closure?

Test Closure is the note prepared before test team formally completes the
testing process. This note contains the total no. of test cases, total no. of
numbers of test cases executed, total no. of defects found, total no. of
defects fixed, total no. of bugs not fixed, total no of bugs rejected etc.,

21. List out Test Deliverables?

1. Test Strategy
2. Test Plan
3. Effort Estimation Report
4. Test Scenarios
5. Test Cases/Scripts
6. Test Data
7. Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
8. Defect Report/Bug Report
9. Test Execution Report
10. Graphs and Metrics
11. Test summary report
12. Test incident report
13. Test closure report
14. Release Note
15. Installation/configuration guide
16. User guide
17. Test status report
18. Weekly status report (Project manager to client)
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22. What is Unit Testing?

Unit Testing is also called as Module Testing or Component Testing. It is

done to check whether the individual unit or module of the source code is
working properly. It is done by the developers in developers
environment.

23. What is Integration Testing?

Integration Testing is the process of testing the interface between the two
software units. Integration testing is done by three ways. Big Bang
Approach, Top Down Approach, Bottom-Up Approach Click here for more
details.

24. What is System Testing?

Testing the fully integrated application to evaluate the systems

compliance with its specified requirements is called System Testing AKA
End to End testing. Verifying the completed system by It ensures that the
application works as intended.

25. What is Big Bang Approach?

Combining all the modules once and verifying the functionality after
completion of individual module testing.

Top down and bottom up are carried out by using dummy modules known
as Stubs and Drivers. These Stubs and Drivers are used to stand-in for
missing components to simulate data communication between modules.

26. What is Top-Down Approach?

Testing takes place from top to bottom. High-level modules are tested
first and then low-level modules and finally integrating the low-level
modules to high level to ensure the system is working as intended. Stubs
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are used as temporary module if a module is not ready for integration

testing.

27. What is Bottom-Up Approach?

It is a reciprocate of the Top Down Approach. Testing takes place from

bottom to up. Lowest level modules are tested first and then high-level
modules and finally integrating the high-level modules to low level to
ensure the system is working as intended. Drivers are used as a
temporary module for integration testing.

28. What is End-To-End Testing?

Refer System Testing.

29. What is Functional Testing?

In simple words, what the system actually does is functional testing. To

verify that each function of the software application behaves as specified
in the requirement document. Testing all the functionalities by providing
appropriate input to verify whether the actual output is matching the
expected output or not. It falls in the scope of black box testing and the
testers need not concern about the source code of the application.

30. What is Non-Functional Testing?

In simple words, how well the system performs is non-functionality

testing. Non-functional testing refers to various aspects of the software
such as performance, load, stress, scalability, security, compatibility
etc., Main focus is to improve the user experience on how fast the system
responds to a request.

31. What is Acceptance Testing?

It is also known as pre-production testing. This is done by the end users

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successful acceptance testing. Formal testing conducted to determine

whether an application is developed as per the requirement. It allows
customer to accept or reject the application. Types of acceptance testing
are Alpha, Beta & Gamma.

32. What is Alpha Testing?

Alpha testing is done by the in-house developers (who developed the

software) and testers. Sometimes alpha testing is done by the client or
outsourcing team with the presence of developers or testers.

33. What is Beta Testing?

Beta testing is done by limited number of end users before delivery.

Usually it is done in the client place.

34. What is Gamma Testing?

Gamma testing is done when the software is ready for release with
specified requirements. It is done at the client place. It is done directly by
skipping all the in-house testing activities.

35. What is Smoke Testing?

Smoke Testing is done to make sure if the build we received from the
development team is testable or not. It is also called as Day 0 check. It
is done at the build level. It helps not to waste the testing time to
simply testing the whole application when the key features dont work or
the key bugs have not been fixed yet.

36. What is Sanity Testing?

Sanity Testing is done during the release phase to check for the main
functionalities of the application without going deeper. It is also called as
subset of Regression testing. It is done at the release level. At times
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due to release time constraints rigorous regression testing cant be done

to the build, sanity testing does that part by checking main functionalities.

37. What is Retesting?

To ensure that the defects which were found and posted in the earlier
build were fixed or not in the current build. Say, Build 1.0 was released.
Test team found some defects (Defect Id 1.0.1, 1.0.2) and posted. Build
1.1 was released, now testing the defects 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in this build is
retesting.

38. What is Regression Testing?

Repeated testing of an already tested program, after modification, to

discover any defects introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes in
the software being tested or in another related or unrelated software
components.

Usually we do regression testing on the following cases:

1. New functionalities are added to the application

2. Change Requirement (In organizations, we call it as CR)
3. Defect Fixing
4. Performance Issue Fix
5. Environment change (E.g., Updating the DB from MySQL to Oracle)

39. What is GUI Testing?

Graphical User Interface Testing is to test the interface between the

application and the end user.
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40. What is Recovery Testing?

Recovery testing is performed in order to determine how quickly the

system can recover after the system crash or hardware failure. It comes
under the type of non-functional testing.

41. What is Globalization Testing?

Globalization is a process of designing a software application so that it can
be adapted to various languages and regions without any changes.

42. What is Internationalization Testing (I18N Testing)?

Refer Globalization Testing.

43. What is Localization Testing (L10N Testing)?

Localization is a process of adapting globalization software for a specific

region or language by adding local specific components.

44. What is Installation Testing?

It is to check whether the application is successfully installed and it is
working as expected after installation.

45. What is Formal Testing?

It is a process where the testers test the application by having a pre-
planned procedures and proper documentation.

46. What is Risk Based Testing?

Identify the modules or functionalities which are most likely cause failures
and then testing those functionalities.

47. What is Compatibility Testing?

It is to deploy and check whether the application is working as expected
in different combination of environmental components.
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48. What is Exploratory Testing?

Usually this process will be carried out by domain experts. They perform
testing just by exploring the functionalities of the application without
having the knowledge of the requirements.

49. What is Monkey Testing?

Perform abnormal action on the application deliberately in order to verify

the stability of the application.

50. What is Usability Testing?

To verify whether application is user friendly or not and was comfortably

used by end user or not. The main focus in this testing is to check
whether the end user can understand and operate the application easily
or not. Application should be self-exploratory and must not require
training to operate it.

51. What is Security Testing?

Security testing is a process to determine whether the system protects

data and maintains functionality as intended.

52. What is Soak Testing?

Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time to identify

the performance problems is called Soak Testing.

53. What is Performance Testing?

This type of testing determines or validates the speed, scalability, and/or

stability characteristics of the system or application under test.
Performance is concerned with achieving response times, throughput, and
resource-utilization levels that meet the performance objectives for the
project or product.
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54. What is Load Testing?

It is to verify that the system/application can handle the expected number

of transactions and to verify the system/application behaviour under both
normal and peak load conditions.

55. What is Volume Testing?

It is to verify that the system/application can handle a large amount of

data

56. What is Stress Testing?

It is to verify the behaviour of the system once the load increases more
than its design expectations.

57. What is Scalability Testing?

Scalability testing is a type of non-functional testing. It is to determine

how the application under test scales with increasing workload.

58. What is Concurrency Testing?

Concurrency testing means accessing the application at the same time by

multiple users to ensure the stability of the system. This is mainly used to
identify deadlock issues.

59. What is Fuzz Testing?

Fuzz testing is used to identify coding errors and security loop holes in an
application. By inputting massive amount of random data to the system in
an attempt to make it crash to identify if anything breaks in the
application.
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60. What is Adhoc Testing?

Ad-hoc testing is quite opposite to the formal testing. It is an informal

testing type. In Adhoc testing, testers randomly test the application
without following any documents and test design techniques. This testing
is primarily performed if the knowledge of testers in the application under
test is very high. Testers randomly test the application without any test
cases or any business requirement document.

61. What is Interface Testing?

Interface testing is performed to evaluate whether two intended modules

pass data and communicate correctly to one another.

62. What is Reliability Testing?

Perform testing on the application continuously for long period of time in
order to verify the stability of the application

63. What is Bucket Testing?

Bucket testing is a method to compare two versions of an application

against each other to determine which one performs better.

64. What is A/B Testing?

Refer Bucket Testing.

65. What is Split Testing?

Refer Bucket Testing.

66. What are the principles of Software Testing?

1. Testing shows presence of defects

2. Exhaustive testing is impossible
3. Early testing
4. Defect clustering
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5. Pesticide paradox
6. Testing is context depending
7. Absence of error fallacy

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67. What is Exhaustive Testing?

Testing all the functionalities using all valid and invalid inputs and
preconditions is known as Exhaustive testing.

68. What is Early Testing?

Defects detected in early phases of SDLC are less expensive to fix. So

conducting early testing reduces the cost of fixing defects.

69. What is Defect clustering?

Defect clustering in software testing means that a small module or

functionality contains most of the bugs or it has the most operational
failures.

70. What is Pesticide Paradox?

Pesticide Paradox in software testing is the process of repeating the same

test cases again and again, eventually the same test cases will no longer
find new bugs. So to overcome this Pesticide Paradox, it is necessary to
review the test cases regularly and add or update them to find more
defects.

71. What is Walk Through?

Walkthrough is an informal meeting conducts to learn, gain

understanding, and find defects. Author leads the meeting and clarifies
the queries raised by the peers in the meeting.
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72. What is Inspection?

Inspection is a formal meeting lead by a trained moderator, certainly not

by the author. The document under inspection is prepared and checked
thoroughly by the reviewers before the meeting. In the inspection
meeting the defects found are logged and shared with the author for
appropriate actions. Post inspection, a formal follow-up process is used to
ensure a timely and corrective action.

73. Who are all involve in an inspection meeting?

Author, Moderator, Reviewer(s), Scribe/Recorder and Manager.

74. What is a Defect?

The variation between the actual results and expected results is known as
defect. If a developer finds an issue and corrects it by himself in the
development phase then its called a defect. Click here for more details.

75. What is a Bug?

If testers find any mismatch in the application/system in testing phase

then they call it as Bug. Click here for more details.

76. What is an Error?

We cant compile or run a program due to coding mistake in a program. If

a developer unable to successfully compile or run a program then they
call it as an error. Click here for more details.

77. What is a Failure?

Once the product is deployed and customers find any issues then they call
the product as a failure product. After release, if an end user finds an
issue then that particular issue is called as failure. Click here for more
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78. What is Bug Severity?

Bug/Defect severity can be defined as the impact of the bug on

customers business. It can be Critical, Major or Minor. In simple words,
how much effect will be there on the system because of a particular
defect. Click here for more details.

79. What is Bug Priority?

Defect priority can be defined as how soon the defect should be fixed. It
gives the order in which a defect should be resolved. Developers decide
which defect they should take up next based on the priority. It can be
High, Medium or Low. Most of the times the priority status is set based on
the customer requirement. Click here for more details.

80. Tell some examples of Bug Severity and Bug Priority?

High Priority & High Severity: Submit button is not working on a login
page and customers are unable to login to the application

Low Priority & High Severity: Crash in some functionality which is

going to deliver after couple of releases

High Priority & Low Severity: Spelling mistake of a company name on

the home page

Low Priority & Low Severity: FAQ page takes a long time to load

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81. What is the difference between Standalone application, Client-

Server application and Web application?

Standalone application:

Standalone applications follow one-tier architecture. Presentation,

Business and Database layer are in one system for single user.
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Client Server Application:

Client server applications follow two-tier architecture. Presentation and

Business layer are in client system and Database layer in another server.
It works majorly in Intranet.

Web Application:

Web server applications follow three-tier or n-tier architecture.

Presentation layer is in client system, Business layer is in application
server and Database layer is in Database server. It works both in Intranet
and Internet.

82. What is Bug Life Cycle?

Bug life cycle also known as Defect life cycle. In Software

Development process, the bug has a life cycle. The bug should go through
the life cycle to be closed. Bug life cycle varies depends upon the tools
(QC, JIRA etc.,) used and the process followed in the organization. Click
here for more details.

83. What is Bug Leakage?

A bug which is actually missed by the testing team while testing and the
build was released to the Production. If now that bug (which was missed
by the testing team) was found by the end user or customer then we call
it as Bug Leakage.

84. What is Bug Release?

Releasing the software to the Production with the known bugs then we
call it as Bug Release. These known bugs should be included in the
release note.
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85. What is Defect Age?

Defect age can be defined as the time interval between date of defect
detection and date of defect closure.

Defect Age = Date of defect closure Date of defect detection

Assume, a tester found a bug and reported it on 1 Jan 2016 and it was
successfully fixed on 5 Jan 2016. So the defect age is 5 days.

86. What is Error Seeding?

Error seeding is a process of adding known errors intendedly in a program

to identify the rate of error detection. It helps in the process of estimating
the tester skills of finding bugs and also to know the ability of the
application (how well the application is working when it has errors.)

87. What is Showstopper Defect?

A show stopper defect is a defect which wont allow user to move further
in the application. Its almost like a crash.

Assume that login button is not working. Even though you have a valid
user name and valid password, you could not move further because the
login button is not functioning.

88. What is Hot Fix?

A bug which needs to handle as a high priority bug and fix it immediately.

89. What is Boundary Value Analysis?

Boundary value analysis (BVA) is based on testing the boundary values of

valid and invalid partitions. The behaviour at the edge of each equivalence
partition is more likely to be incorrect than the behaviour within the
partition, so boundaries are an area where testing is likely to yield
defects. Every partition has its maximum and minimum values and these
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maximum and minimum values are the boundary values of a partition. A

boundary value for a valid partition is a valid boundary value. Similarly a
boundary value for an invalid partition is an invalid boundary value. Click
here for more details.

90. What is Equivalence Class Partition?

Equivalence Partitioning is also known as Equivalence Class Partitioning.

In equivalence partitioning, inputs to the software or system are divided
into groups that are expected to exhibit similar behaviour, so they are
likely to be proposed in the same way. Hence selecting one input from
each group to design the test cases. Click here for more details.

91. What is Decision Table testing?

Decision Table is aka Cause-Effect Table. This test technique is

appropriate for functionalities which has logical relationships between
inputs (if-else logic). In Decision table technique, we deal with
combinations of inputs. To identify the test cases with decision table, we
consider conditions and actions. We take conditions as inputs and actions
as outputs. Click here for more details.

92. What is State Transition?

Using state transition testing, we pick test cases from an application

where we need to test different system transitions. We can apply this
when an application gives a different output for the same input,
depending on what has happened in the earlier state. Click here for more
details.

93. What is an entry criteria?

The prerequisites that must be achieved before commencing the testing

process. Click here for more details.
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94. What is an exit criteria?

The conditions that must be met before testing should be concluded. Click
here for more details.

95. What is SDLC?

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) aims to produce high quality

system that meets or exceeds customer expectations, works effectively
and efficiently in the current and planned information technology
infrastructure, and is inexpensive to maintain and cost effective to
enhance. Click here for more details.

96. What are the different available models of SDLC?

1. Waterfall
2. Spiral
3. V Model
4. Prototype
5. Agile

97. What is STLC?

STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) identifies what test activities to carry
out and when to accomplish those test activities. Even though testing
differs between Organizations, there is a testing life cycle. Click here for
more details.

98. What is RTM?

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) is used to trace the requirements

to the tests that are needed to verify whether the requirements are
fulfilled. Requirement Traceability Matrix AKA Traceability Matrix or Cross
Reference Matrix. Click here for more details.
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99. What is Test Metrics?

Software test metrics is to monitor and control process and product. It

helps to drive the project towards our planned goals without
deviation. Metrics answer different questions. Its important to decide
what questions you want answers to. Click here for more details.

100. When to stop testing? (Or) How do you decide when you
have tested enough?

There are many factors involved in the real time projects to decide when
to stop testing.

1. Testing deadlines or release deadlines

2. By reaching the decided pass percentage of test cases
3. The risk in the project is under acceptable limit
4. All the high priority bugs, blockers are fixed
5. When acceptance criteria is met

As per ISTQB, It depends on the risks for the system being tested
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