Question { TATA, 179087 }

What is Alpha and Beta Testing?

Answer

a) Alpha Testing: - Alpha testing is simulated or
actual operational testing by potential users/customers
or an independent test team at the developers' site. Alpha
testing is often employed for off-the-shelf software as a
form of internal acceptance testing, before the software
goes to beta testing. The customer may be invited into the
vendor's facilities for an alpha test to ensure the
client's vision has been interpreted properly by the
developer.
b) Beta Testing: - Operational testing by potential
and/or existing users/customers at an external site not
otherwise involved with the developers, to determine
whether or not a
component or system satisfies the user/customer needs &
fits within the business processes. Beta testing is often
employed as a form of external acceptance testing for COTS
software in order to acquire feedback. Versions of the
software, known as beta versions, are released to a cross
section of audience so that they can test the application
in real environment and can share feedback to the
development organization.

Question { 13286 }

How do you prepare a regression testing suite?

Answer

@Lucky you are absolutely right.
Regression test suite preparation:-
1) Identify functionality that is very critical for business.
2) Functionality that is mostly visible to user.
3) Functionality that is mostly used by user.
4) Functionality that has maximum impact on the application.
5) Areas that are very complex and can be error prone.

Question { 4231 }

What is the testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases
(eswar)

Answer

Software Testing Life Cycle
1) Test Planning & Control
Determine the objective & scope of project, obtain all
requirements, cost estimations, time estimations, prepare
test plan. Review test plan freeze test plan.
2) Analysis & Design
Analyze requirements, review requirements, identify
test conditions. Start designing test case one by one. Start
preparing test data. Review test cases, freeze test cases.
Once you finished writing down test cases. Prepare a RTM to
assure than each requirement is covered by at least one test
case. Also you can identify test cases that can go for
regression testing.
3) Implementation & Execution
Implementation refers to checking where test environment
is properly in place. Test Data is prepared and free to use.
Follow test procedures written in test cases start executing
test cases. Compare actual results with expected from
requirements document. Log if any deviation found. This
phase can occur for more than once after all the bugs you
rased are fixed.

Reporting & Test Closure activities.

Prepare test summery reports that will give the best
assessment of quality to the stake holders. Reports like
Defect Density, Defect Severity wise, Defect priority wise,
Defect status wise. And forward all reports to stake holders.

Question { 10079 }

Do I have to write separate test cases for entering special
characters, blank space, numbers in First name field ?
Or should I create single test case for it? If yes then how?

Answer

Yes you have to write separate test cases for entering
special characters, blank space, numbers in First name field
as these three are seperate EP. Suppose u wrote a single
test case for all three and test case is failed for special
character, then whole test case will fail even if it is
working properly for rest of two.

Question { IBM, 15139 }

what is difference between Sanity testing and Smoke testing?

Answer

Smoke Testing- Also called as Build Verification Testing.
This type of testing is done to check the stability of the
build that most of the crucial function are present and can
be accessed and to evaluate the build is ready for further
levels of testing. e.g. All menu options are present, all
forms can be navigated properly. This is a shallow and wide
approch

Sanity Testing- This is a cursory testing in which we will
check a functionality in detail rather than going for
overall build. Approach is narro & deep.

Question { 8895 }

Write test cases to copy text file from C:\ drive to D:\
drive?

Answer

Test Case ID--
Test Case Objective-- Verify/Validate file copy operation
Prerequisite-- At least a file should be created in C:\
Steps Expected
1) Go To C:\
2) Right Click on the file windows menu should expand
3) Select option Copy form menu Should allow click
4) Go To D:\ Right click on empty windows menu should expand
Space in folder
5) Select Paste Option from menu File should be pasted.

Same way follow these steps for ctrl+C
and also for Drag From C:\ to D:\

Question { 10657 }

Is Alpha testing done by developers or testers?

Answer

Testing done by the cross section of the user or special
testing team (Good domain Knowledge from user site) at the
devlopers site in presence of the devloper is called as
Alpha Testing. Devlopers will observe the users and will
note down the problems they are facing while testing.

Question { 8547 }

Is Beta Testing done by devolopers or testers?

Answer

Testing done by the cross section of the user at the
customer site in the abscence of the devloper is called as
Beta Testing. No body from devlopment organisation will be
involved in this testing. Goal is to gather feed back
before the actual release.

Question { 18203 }

What types of testing will come under functionality testing
and non functionality testing?Security testing is consider
as functionality testing or non functionality?why its so?

Answer

Functional Testing-Testing done to evaluate the compliance
of the system with specified Functional Specification. This
type of testing is completely based on the analysis of the
functional specification. Functional testing is done to
validate the functionality of the system under test. It is
also called as behavioral testing.

Non_Functional Testing- Testing the quality attributes of
the system is called as non functional testing.

Usability
Security
Reliability
Performance
Load/Stress

Question { NSN, 15890 }

what is severity?explain with example

Answer

Severity- Severity of the bug refers to the impact of the
bug on the Application Under Test. Severity is always
assigned by the tester. Severity types can differ from
company to company.
Generally there are 4 types

1) Critical e.g. Application Crash or Data loss
2) High e.g Application crash but does not result
in data loss
3)Medium- e.g Functionality not working but can be done
other way around
Low- e.g. Cosmetics bugs have the lowest severity.

Question { 5427 }

What is the difference between Retesting and Data Driven
Testing?

Answer

ReTesting-> Re-Running the test case that are failed
previously to verify the success of a corrective action or
fix. Tester should use same enviromental conditions and
test data when re testing the fixed issue.

Data Driven Testing-> Testing a particular function with
multiple data values is called as Data driven testing.

Question { CTS, 21815 }

What Tester should do after getting Requirement Doc?

Answer

When a tester recieves a req doc he should first of all
understand the req doc completely. then

1) He should review that document look for some missing
functionalities in the doc.
2)Look for some inconsistancy in the doc. Check wheather
all the req are consistsant or not.
3)Check weather requirment are complete or not.
4)Check all the req in the doc are testable or not.
5)Do some research about the customer, and see if the req
when built address the customer problems.
6)If req is for a mission critical systems(Military) See
all the military standards and guidelines are followed or
not.

After doing this all

Tester should start identifying the test conditions once
all test conditions are identified. Tester should start
desinging test cases that will verify these conditions.

Prepare a RTM and see if all the req are covered by the
test cases.

This is how it should go

Correct me if i am wrong

Question { 5839 }

What is alpha and Beta Testing?

Answer

Alpha Testing- Also called as internal acceptance test. It
is done by the potential Customer/User of the system at
devlopers site in presence of the devloper. Bugs found
during the testing are immediately fixed.

Beta Testing- Beta testing is done by the potential
Customer/User of the system at one of the customer site in
the abscence of the devloper. Objective of this type of
testing is collect some feed back from the customer.

Question { Zycus Infotech, 16694 }

what do u mean by Functional testing?

Answer

Functional Testing is type of testing based on the analysis
of the functional specification of the system to check the
compliance of the system specified requirments.

Question { HCL, 9676 }

how will u Do Smoke testing and Sanity testing for these
fields:We have 3 fields on page: Name,Address and Pincode ?

Answer

Smoke testing is BVT that is u will briefly visit all the
functionalities to make sure nothing is breaking. For this
example i will check wheather all the fields are accepting
inputs and displaying it properly.

For Sanity testing i will choose one of field and test that
field in detail.

Smoke testing is broad in approch & Sanity is narrow in
approch.