Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Testing General - 4

61. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?
if u have about ur tool 1. first do the work manually then compare this result with the tool producing result. 2. compare ur tool with the other similar competitive products in the market. i.e; test whether ur tool and other tool which is performing well in the market

62. How would you ensure 100% coverage of testing?
we can not perform 100% testing on any application. but the criteria to ensure test completion on a project is 1. all the test cases are executed with the certain percentage of pass. 2. bug falls below a certain level 3. test budget depleted 4.Deadline reached 5.When the functionalities are covered in test cases 6.All critical & high bugs must have a status of closed

63. What you will do during the first day of job?
In my present company HR introduced me to my colleagues. And i known the following things. 1.what is the organization structure? 2.what is the current project developing, on what domain etc., 3.I will know to whom i have to report and what are my responsibilities.

64. What would you like to do five years from now?
I would like to be in a managerial role, ideally working closely with external clients. I have worked in client-facing roles for more than two years and I enjoy the challenge of keeping the customer satisfied. I think it's something I'm good at.

65. What are your greatest weaknesses?
"I used to have a tendency to procrastinate. So now I am always sure to set a strict schedule for all of my projects well in advance and I set personal deadlines. This organization has really helped." "Once in a while, I focus too much

66. What is a successful product?
A Successful product is :- 1) Bugs Free 2) Quality should maintain 3) In Time Delivered in the Market 4) It should be Standard in Market with high demand 5) It should be useful to most of the people with out any Complaints

67.What do you like about Windows?

User friendliness

68. What do you like about QA?
QA certainly is more challenging because U R trying to prevent the bugs !

69. What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what would you change?

70.How you will begin to improve the QA process?

By following methodologies like waterfall or spiral

71. What is the difference between QA and QC?
Actual testing = Quality Control of a project Quality Control = Processes used to test the Project Functionality Quality Assurance = Measures the quality of QC processes used to create a Quality Project.

72. What is UML and how to use it for testing?
Use Cases can developed using UML. Scenario Testing is based on Use Cases. i.e Use Case describes the user interaction with the system/Application. it simplifies a complex process of Software Design making a blueprint for construction.

73.Do you have a favorite QA book?

Effective Methods for Software Testing-William e. Perry

74 . How much interaction with users should testers have, and why?
Normally the SRS or client specs are referred. However when the project undergoes constant modifications from the client, testers can sit in on the conversations chats so that they have a general idea of where the projects is headed. Also many

75 . What are the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?
Glass-box is a synonym for white box testing technique. Also called structural testing. As the name suggests it's concerned with testing the internal logic of the application with access to code. Whereas in Black box testing U don't have access to code

76. What issues come up in test automation, and how do you manage them?
Main issue is the frequent change request. If there are frequent changes in the system, as an automation engineer, we need to take care of the changing objects and functionalities to update the scripts.

77. What is the role of a bug tracking system?
A bug tracking system is used to report all errors at one central place for easy access and retrieval, both by developer as well as tester. Since all the bugs are centrally filed, it becomes easy to update their status. The tracking can be done across multiple projects and lastly ,there details can be used by a QA Manager for metrics.

78. What are the key challenges of testing?
challenges of testing is writing test cases. A good test case is one that has a high probability to find an yet undiscovered error. A successful testcase is one which uncovers the error that is not yet find.

79. Have you ever completely tested any part of a product? How?
it is not possible to test any product completely. We can test major functionalities of the application which are most visible to user. And critical parts in the product.

80. When have you had to focus on data integrity?
I feel, we have to take data integrity issues right from integration test phase.

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