Question { Persistent, 8726 }

What are the advantage of using V models?

Answer

1) V Model Incorporate testing right from the beginning. So increases the scope of testing as Proactive activity.
2)Test planning process starts early in the life cycle. So reduces late surprises.
3)As static testing processes starts early in the life cycle the cost of fixing the detected bugs is very less.
4) As both verification & validation activities happens through out the cycle result is a quality product.

Question { TCS, 6089 }

explain fields of a bug

Answer

1) Bug id
2) Version No Of AUT
3) Module Name
4) Status
5) Detail Description
6) Steps To Reproduce
7) Severity
8) Priority
9) Reported By
10) Assigned To
11) Reported Date
12) Fixed Date
13) Comments If Any

Question { CSS, 5340 }

What is testing ?

Answer

The process consisting of all lifecycle activities both
static & dynamic concerned with planning, preparation, &
evaluation of software products & work related products to
show that software work as expected, it satisfies the
customers need & with intent of finding defects.

Question { CSS, 5677 }

what is quality ? What is quality assurance and quality
control ?

Answer

Quality- A good quality product is one delivered on time,
within budget & satisfies customers needs.

Quality control- “A set of activities designed to evaluate
the quality of developed or manufactured products.” This is
what we call it as testing, running & evaluating a devloped
product to find defects in it & check compliance with
specified req.

Quality Assurance-“A set of activities designed to evaluate
the process by which products are developed or
manufactured.” According to me job of a quality assurance
person is to make & enforce some standards & make sure they
are followed. Result of a quality assurance is improved
devlopment process.

Question { CSS, 10630 }

what is alpha , beta testing ?

Answer

Alpha Testing- Testing done by the potential User/customer at developers site in the presence of the developer is called as alpha testing. This also called as internal acceptance testing. Issues found during the alpha testing are fixed immediately.

Beta testing- Testing of application done by the potential User/customer at customers site in the absence of the developer is called as Beta testing. Goal is to gather feed back from the customer.

Question { CMC, 5543 }

What is regression testing

Answer

In software industry change & improvement is a continuous process. Whenever there is change in existing functionality or new functionality is added to the system or any defect is fixed. We should make sure that changed or added functionality has not broken already working functionality, and does not have any effect on the unchanged areas of the software. this is called as regression testing. A regression test suit should consists of basic functionality test case of the system. And regression test cases should be always automated.

Question { CMC, 5452 }

what is severity and what is priority

Answer

Severity- Severity defines the effect of the bug if occurred on the application.

Priority- Priority defines the how important that bug is and in which or we should fix that bug.

Question { 8678 }

HOW DO U EXECUTE THE CASES WHEN THE TIME IS NOT SUFFICIENT
TO EXECUTE ALL THE TEST CASES?

Answer

According to me carry out the risk analysis. Prioritize risk according to their likelihood & impact. Run test cases that addresses the highest risk first and so on. Saif is also right according to me.

Question { IBM, 9560 }

IS INTEGARTION TESTING DONE BY THE DEVELOPER OR TESTER?IF
TESTER IS INVOLVED , WHAT WILL TESTER DO ?

Answer

Integration testing can be done by developers as well as testers. At component integration testing level it is done by developers and at system integration testing level it is done by testers.

Question { CMC, 9542 }

on what basis do the tester asssign severity

Answer

Kya tum bhi bachhha log khali pili zagada karta hai answer is so simple.

Depending upon the impact of the ocuuring defect on the application he will assign the severity. All everybody listed above are severity types. They may be different for different organisations. Only Vijaymariswamy is right

Question { IBM, 7327 }

HOW CAN U DO DATA BASE TESTING ?
COULD U PLZ EXPLAIN WITH SOME EXAMPLES?

Answer

When a tester is asked to do database testing. First insert a record form the front end and query the database see all the data inserted is in proper format. Also verify all the database columns are having proper data types. Also check for proper primary key is defined or not. See all foreign key relationships are properly defined or not. Also see whether table is in proper normal form.

Question { Accenture, 9409 }

how can test the entire web site?

Answer

Web site testing is little bit complicated than client server based applications.
1) Check the web site for functionality testing.
2) Check for broken links spelling mistakes.
3) Check all alternate text of all images are displayed properly.
4) If Ur web site is using cookies to save user related information also do little bit cookie testing.
5) If Ur web site is using any user registration page use SQL injection for security testing.
6) Do performance testing of the web site.
7) Do compatibility testing of the web site with diffrent browser versions.
8) U can also do load and stress testing but u need automation support for that.
9) Most Important u should do is Usability testing of ur web site.

Question { ArisGlobal, 27956 }

what is system integration testing and component integration
testing?

Answer

There are the two types of integration testing.

Component Integration testing means u will integrate one or more components & test them to check how there interfaces work when integrated e.g data flow between two modules.

System Integration testing is done when Ur integrating more than one separate systems to build the legacy systems.

Question { Cap Gemini, 15752 }

what is suspension criteria and exit criterai in test
plan/????

Answer

Suspension criteria specify the criteria to be used to suspend
all or portion of testing activities. And Resumption criteria
specify when a testing activity can be resumed after it has
been suspended.

Exit criteria specify the criteria to be used to stop the
testing activities.

Question { Cap Gemini, 9349 }

what is non-functional testing? give 2 example..

Answer

Basically non-functional testing refers to the testing the quality attributes of the system like Performance, Reliabilty load testing etc.