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Manual Testing Interview Questions-1
2007-08-28 16:12:00
What makes a good test engineer? A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail. Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both ...
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Test Plan Frequently Asked Questions
2007-08-23 11:35:00
1. Why you cannot download a Word version of this test plan. I have received numerous requests for an MS Word version of the test plan. However, although the web pages were created directly from an word document, I no longer have a copy of that original word document. Also, having prepared numerous test plans, I know that ...
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Software Testing Related Questions and Answers
2007-08-17 22:03:00
1. What makes a good test engineer? ? A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail. ? Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both ...
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Software Testing Glossary-I
2007-08-10 16:41:00
1 acceptance testing: Formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer, or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component. 2 actual outcome: The behavior actually produced when the object is tested under specified conditions. 3 ad hoc testing: Testing carried out using no recognised test case design technique. 4 alpha testing: Simulated or actual operational testing at an in-house site not otherwise involved with the software developers. 5 arc testing: See branch testing. 6 Backus-Naur form: A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language. 7 basic block: A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches. 8 basis test set: A set of test cases derived from the code logic which ensure that 100 % branch coverage is achieved. 9 bebugging: 11 beta testing: Operational testing at a site not otherwise involved with the software developers. 10 behaviour: The combination of input values and preconditio...
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Metrics in Software Testing
2007-08-10 16:27:00
1) Schedule variance = (Actual time taken - Planned time) / Planned time * 100 2) Effort variance = (Actual effort - Planned Effort)/Planned effort * 100 3) Defect unearthing efficiency = 100 * STRs found in pass 1/ ( STRs found in pass 1 + STRs found in pass 2 but existing in pass 1) = Defect unearthing efficiency for pass 1. Thus defect unearthing efficiency can be found for all passes. Also defect unearthing efficiency in terms of field STRs could be found as follows: = 100 * Total STRs found in Polaris for a release/ (Total STRs found in Polaris for a release + Field STRs for that release) 4) Test case efficiency = (Total STRs - STRs not mapped)/Total STRs * 100 5) Test case coverage = (Total Test cases - STRs that cannot be mapped to test cases)/ Total Test Cases * 100 PRODUCTIVITY METRICS 1. OUTPUT / INPUT OR VALUE OF MATERIAL / COST OF PRODUCTION Eg: Non Commented Software Source (NCSS) Per Engineer Per Month NCSS per Person Month NCSS per Function Point NCSS can also b...
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What’s the difference between load and stress testing?
2007-08-09 12:37:00
Boris Beizer says: One of the most common, but unfortunate misuse of terminology is treating “load testing” and “stress testing” as synonymous. The consequence of this ignorant semantic abuse is usually that the system is neither properly “load tested” nor subjected to a meaningful stress test. 1. Stress testing is subjecting a system to an unreasonable load while denying it the resources (e.g., RAM, disc, mips, interrupts,etc.) needed to process that load. The idea is to stress a system to the breaking point in order to find bugs that will make that break potentially harmful. The system is not expected to process the overload without adequate resources, but to behave (e.g., fail) in a decent manner (e.g., not corrupting or losing data). Bugs and failure modes discovered under stress testing may or may not be repaired depending on the application, the failure mode, consequences, etc. The load (incoming transaction stream) in stress testing...
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What?s the difference between load and stress testing?
2007-08-09 12:37:00
Boris Beizer says: One of the most common, but unfortunate misuse of terminology is treating “load testing” and “stress testing” as synonymous. The consequence of this ignorant semantic abuse is usually that the system is neither properly “load tested” nor subjected to a meaningful stress test. 1. Stress testing is subjecting a system ...
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Quick Test Professional Questions & Answers Part 2
2007-08-02 20:03:00
11.Keyword view in QTP is also termed as Icon based view 12.What is the use of data table in QTP? parameterizing the test 13.What is the use of working with actions? To design a modular and efficient tests 14.What is the file extension of the code file and object repository file in QTP? The extension for code file is .vbs and the extension for object repository is .tsr 15.What are the properties we can use for identifying a browser and page when using descriptive programming? The name property is used to identify the browser and the title property is used to identify the page 16.What are the different scripting languages we can use when working with QTP? VB script 17.Give the example where we can use a COM interface in our QTP project? COM interface appears in the scenario of front end and back end. 18.Explain the keyword createobject with example createobject is used to create and return a reference to an automation object. For example: Dim ExcelSheetSet ExcelSheet=createobject(“...
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Quick Test Professional Question & Answers Part 1
2007-08-02 19:58:00
1.What is Quick test pro? Its a Mercury interactive’s keyword driven testing tool 2.By using QTP what kind of applications we can test? By using QTP we can test standard windows applications,Web objects,ActiveX controls,and Visual basic applications. 3.What is called as test? Test is a collection of steps organized into one or more actions,which are used to verify that your application performs as expected 4.What is the meaning of business component? Its a collections of steps representing a single task in your application. Business components are combined into specific scenario to build business process tests in Mercury Quality center with Business process testing 5.How the test will be created in QTP? As we navigate through our application,QTP records each step we perform and generates a test or component that graphically displays theses steps in an table-based keyword view. 6.What are all the main tasks which will be accomplished by the QTP after creating a test? After we ...
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Interview question 11: Which version of QTP has support for FireFox?
2007-07-28 08:24:00
The browser compatibility testing across the whole spectrum of possibilities is very important for success of web based application delivery. In the current time QTP has no support for Firefox browser, but if you really need to do testing under this browser take a look into silktest Perhaps in the near future Mercury will deliverer to QA community additional support for many different browsers including the browser you mentioned above.
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Interview question 11: Which version of QTP has support for FireFox?
2007-07-28 08:24:00
The browser compatibility testing across the whole spectrum of possibilities is very important for success of web based application delivery. In the current time QTP has no support for Firefox browser, but if you really need to do testing under this browser take a look into silktest Perhaps in the near future Mercury will deliverer ...
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SilkTest Question 62: When can I download Flex extension for SilkTest?
2007-07-27 12:33:00
Unfortunately even the most recent version of Silk Test has no support for Flex
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Interview question 10: How to automate testing of Adobe Flex applications?
2007-07-26 19:28:00
Adobe Flex automation package includes support for with HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.1 tool. Flex plug-in for QTP allows recording, play back interactions with Flex applications and setting check points to verify the application state. QA Engineer should remind to Flex developer, that there are popular techniques that developer can utilize to construct Flex applications as test friendly as possible. One of the most important errands that developer can complete is to make sure that objects are identifiable in the HP QTP testing tool’s scripts. This means that developer should set the value of the id property for all controls that are tested, and ensure that you use a meaningful string for that id property. If QA Engineer can use unique IDs for each control, the HP QuickTest Pro testing scripts are more readable, executable and maintenance is easy
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SilkTest Question 61: How can I execute the same test case multiple times?
2007-07-26 19:04:00
The solution is easy as usual with 4test: create a main() function and place a nice loop within it. The working 4test example below calls a straightforward test within a loop within the main function. [-] testcase Winrunner() appstate none [ ] Print (”HP WinRunner license and maintenance codes are available from HP web site”)[-] main() [ ] int jCount = 100 [ ] int j [-] for (j=1;j [ ] Winrunner()
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SilkTest Question 61: How can I execute the same test case multiple times?
2007-07-26 19:04:00
The solution is easy as usual with 4test: create a main() function and place a nice loop within it. The working 4test example below calls a straightforward test within a loop within the main function. [-] testcase Winrunner() appstate none [ ] Print (”HP WinRunner license and maintenance codes are available from HP web ...
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