Interview Questions Part 2

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Q.  What is a Risk? What are the important components of the risk?

A. Risk is a condition that will result in loss.
The important components of risk are a) Probability the risk will occur b) Impact of the risk c) Frequency of occurrence

Q.  What is walkthrough and inspection?                 

A. Walkthrough is there for both Testing and Coding.
Walkthrough for testing means brief review of documents, Test cases, Test script etc.
Walkthrough for Coding means review the coding for whether the Developer follows the Coding standards or not.

Inspection is job of Quality Control (QC). He can conduct Inspections and Audits on the project at any time to check whether the process is going on correctly or not.
I will tell y one example for Test Engineer, QA, QC
Take an Examination Center: In that

• Test Engineer is Examiner
• QA is sitting squad
• QC is a flying squad

Q. What is Release Acceptance Testing?
What is Forced Error Testing?
What is Data Integrity Testing?
What is System Integration Testing

A.  Following are the details regarding Release Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing, Data Integrity Testing

1. Release Acceptance Testing
Lets consider the following example:
The business says a bank plans to plan to test a cards application in 3 releases: Release 1, 2 & 3.
Each release has few enhancements (functionalities) like Chargeback’s, Fraud reporting etc.,
Testing these enhancements release wise is termed as Release Acceptance Testing

2. System Integration Testing
Clubbing all the modules of an application together and testing it as one single system is termed as System Integration Testing

3. Data Integrity Testing
Consider the scenario below:
When some external data (like Flat Files) are transmitted into to your application you expect complete communication of data (say for example if you are expecting Rs.5000/- from the external file to be populated as Rs.5000/- in Transaction Amount field in your application then you are looking out for Integrity of data transferred from external interface to your application. This is Data Integrity Testing
No idea about Forced Error Testing.

Q.  What is the Compatibility testing difference between testing in IE explorer and testing in Firefox?

A. In IE we can look perfectly the web pages where as in Firefox some images and text are not displayed properly

Q.  How do u conduct boundary analysis testing for "ok" pushbutton?

A. There is no boundary value analysis for "Ok" Push-Button.

Q. What is the strength and weakness in testing?

A. Strength: Judgeemnt skills, patience, pessimistic in nature, strong desire quality Weakness: like, i love coffee so i drink coffee every hour

Q.  What do we do when there is a known bug at the time of software release?

A.  If there is any open bug at the time of release we mention in the release note which we send with the release, in open list of issues. As we know if client finds that we have mentioned the issue in release note he will not be worried about the type of testing being done on the application. But if he himself finds that bug it will hurt our company image.

Q.  What is "bug leakage?" and what is "bug release?"

A. The bugs un discovered in the previous stage / cycles is called bug leakage for that stage/cycle. Eg. Suppose you have completed System Testing (ST)
and certified the application as fully tested and send it for UAT. but UAT certainly uncovers some of the bugs which are not found at ST stage. so bugs are leaked from ST stage to UAT. this is called bug leakage.

Q.  Which of the following statements about regression testing are true?
(1) Regression Testing must consist of a fixed set of tests to create a baseline
(2) Regression Testing should be used to detect defects in new features
(3) Regression Testing can be run on every build
(4) Regression Testing should be targeted to areas of high risk and known code change
(5) Regression Testing, when automated, is highly effective in preventing defects

A.  1 4 and 5 are correct

Q. How can we perform testing without expected results?

A. Main concept in testing is the expected result. By knowing the expected behavior of the application or system from SRS and FDS, we can derive a test case. When executed the derived test cases, actual result is noted. Any deviation from the expected is considered as a defect.

In Adhoc testing, there is no need of a test case, but if we want to log a defect, we should know the expected behaviour of the application or a system.

There is only one possibility for this question according to me. Exploratory testing.
An interactive process of concurrent product exploration, test design, and test execution. The heart of exploratory testing can be stated simply. The outcome of this test influences the design of the next test. Tester will explore the product or application and will note down the expected result and will design a test case and execute the test.

Q. What is defect leakage?

A. If any defect which we could not find out in system test environment then it is called as defect leakage.

Q. What are the parameters of Quality cost?

A.  Quality cost or Cost of quality depends on the time factor that is at what time the bug is detected. If the bug is detected at the time of release then the cost of quality will increase & if the bug is detected at requirement phase then the cost of quality will be very less. So the conclusion is the main parameter of Quality cost is "Time at which bug is detected".

Q. Could we test window's calculator through win runner. for e.g. if I have to show get the value of calculator buttons.

A. yes, we can test the window's calculator using win Runner and also you can show the values of buttons.

Q. What is SQA Activities?

A. SQA activities - suggesting & reviewwing the process docuemtents
Example - reviewing project management plan, etc

Q.  What is the difference in writing the test cases for Integration testing and system testing

A. Integration Testing:
Mostly the integration Testing is not done by Test Engineer.
Integration testing test case includes a partial amount of the conditions used for system testing.
System testing = Functionality Testing + Integration + Unit (Complete round of testing)

Q. What is a deliverable ? Can you please mention the names of deliverables in your current project .

A. Test Deliverables:-
1.Test plan document
2.Test case document
3. Test strategic document
4.test script document
5.test scenario document
6.test log document
7.coding guidlines document
8. automation procedure document

Q. What metrics used to measure the size of the software?

A.  There are 4 ways in which u can measure the program size1)Lines of code i.e.LOC2)Function points3)McCabe's complexity metric which is the number of decisions(+1) in a program4)Halstead's metrics that are used to calculate program length

Q.  Let us know your understanding of Audits ?

A. Audit comes under QA. Its a checking of the processes in the organistion which are define are followed by the employee.
In this every product is audited for the process, that its going as per the organistion's define process or not. Reviwing the documents, matrix related to the product are checked.

Q.  What are the contents of Risk management Plan? Have you ever prepared a Risk Management Plan ?

A.  In general it consist of types risk associated and mitigation for it. It also consist of severity. In general RMP is created by PM and updated by Module Leads when needed.

Q. How can you say your project testing is completed? Explain the various factors?

A.  There are so many factors to know this answer.. some main factors are.....
1) Dead line of your Project reaches
2) Your Estimated Budget over.
3) Acives Customer's Requirement with certain percentage of test case passed.
etc......

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Thank you

Ram