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Testing related interview Questions: In this section of the wesbite,we will see the various types of questions related to the Manual testing and Automation testing that will help you to crack the interviews easily.
Manual Testing
1. What is software testing?Explain software testing life cycle?
2. What is boundary value analysis?
3. Explain Equivalent Partitioning?
4. What is bug life cycle?
5. What is severity and priority, explain the difference?
6. What is test strategy?
7. What all types of testing you could perform on a web based application?
8. What is the difference between bug, defect and a error?
9. What is Negative testing?
10. What is black box testing?
11. What is GUI testing?
12. If you have ‘n’ requirements and you have less time how do you prioritize the requirements?
13. What is RTM , and how do you use it?
14. How would you define Quality Assurance?
15. What is smoke testing and what is sanity?
16. What all types of testing you could perform on a web based application?
17. What is incremental integration testing?what are the types?
18. What is risk analysis?
19. What do you write in a test plan?
20. What is basis for testcase review?
21. Explain the difference between positive and negative testing.
22. What is the test harness?
23. What are the integration testing and regression testing?
24. Difference between bug log and defect tracking
25. Difference between alpha testing and beta testing.
Automation Testing
1. What are the benefits of automation testing over manual testing?
2. How does load testing work for websites?
3. Can you explain data-driven testing?
4. What criteria do you consider for automating a test?
5. What kind of tests should NOT be automated?
6. What are Pros and Cons of automating tests at UI layer?
7. Why would you want to automate a test? Is it to:
8. What are the points that are covered while planning phase of automation ?
9. In what condition we cannot use automation testing for Agile method ?
10. What are the primary features of good automation tool ?
11. What are the most popular tools for automation testing?
12. On what basis you can map the success of automation testing?
13. What types of bugs is automation good at detecting?
14. What types of scripting techniques for test automation do you know?
15. Can the activities of test case design be automated?
16. Describe different random software testing techniques?
17. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?
18. Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool.
19. What are some of the common misconceptions during implementation of an automated testing tools for the first time?
20. What is data - driven automation?
21. What are the advantages and disadvantages of early test automation, that is, for the first release of a product?
22. What are the Risks associated in Automation Testing?
23. What are main benefits of test automation?
24. What are the steps involved in the Automation Process ?
25. What skills needed to be a good software test automator?
QTP
1. Can you list some technologies that support QTP?
2. What are some test assets and related extensions of QTP?
3. What environment does QTP run in?
4. Explain how QTP identifies objects.
5. Different types of QTP test assets and their extensions:
6. What are the technologies supported by QTP?
7. What is QTP’s model for test creation?
8. What are the different ways to invoke an application using QTP?
9. How does QTP identify an object?
10. What is Smart identification?
11. What is Object Spy?
12. What are Virtual Objects?
13. How to perform Cross platform testing and Cross browser testing using QTP? Can u explain giving some example?
14. What is logical name of the object?
15. Can we record an application running on a remote machine using QTP ?
16. What is the file extension of the code file in QTP?
17. Explain in brief about the QTP Automation Object Model.
18. What is Step Generator?
19. How to make QTP understand the difference amongst the same type of objects .Suppose there are 5 check boxes in a page and I have to choose the 2nd one, how to do that through script?
20. How can you handle exceptions in QTP?
21. What are the types of environment variables in QTP ?
22. What is keyword view and Expert view in QTP?
23. Explain QTP Testing process?
24. How will you check a web application for broken links using QTP?
25. What are the drawbacks of QTP?
Selenium
1. Are you familiar with Selenium? If yes, what is it?
2. What kinds of tests can be run with the Selenium framework?
3. What is the Selenium WebDriver?
4. What is the Selenium IDE and what is it used for?
5. List the elements locators that Selenium comes with.
6. When should I use Selenium Grid?
7. What do we mean by Selenium 1 and Selenium 2?
8. Which is the latest Selenium tool?
9. Can Selenium handle windows based pop up?
10. What is Selenium and what is composed of?
11. How will you find an element using Selenium?
12. List out the test types that are supported by Selenium?
13. Explain what is assertion in Selenium and what are the types of assertion?
14. What are the advantages of Selenium?
15. Why testers should opt for Selenium and not QTP?
16. What are the four parameter you have to pass in Selenium?
17. What is the difference between setSpeed() and sleep() methods?
18. What is same origin policy? How you can avoid same origin policy?
19. Explain how to assert text of webpage using selenium 2.0 ?
20. Explain what are the JUnits annotation linked with Selenium?
21. Explain what is the difference between find elements () and find element () ?
22. What is heightened privileges browsers?
23. What is the difference between setSpeed() and sleep() methods?
24. What is the difference between verify and assert commands?
25. Explain the difference between single and double slash in X-path?