1. In which Software Life cycle phase does testing occur? 2.

Can you explain PDCA cycle and where does testing fit? PDCA Plan Do Check Act. In the Check phase testing occurs 3. What is the difference between white box, black box and gray box testing? White Box Testing Testing the Internal structure of the application. Mainly the unit testing falls under it. Black Box Testing Testing the functionalities of the application. Integration and System testing falls under it. Gray Box Testing Combination of both Internal and Functionalities testing 4. Define Defect? Difference in expected and actual output is called defect. 5. What is the difference between Defect and Failure? Eg : Power failure 6. What are the broader categories of defects? 7. What is the difference between Verification and Validation? Static type of testing is called Verification. Eg. Review, Audits Dynamic type of testing is called Validation. Eg. Testing 8. How does testing affect risk? 9. Does Increase in testing always mean good to the project? No. It will affect the cost of the project. 10. As a manager what process did you adopt to define testing policy? 11. Should testing be only after build and execution? 12. Are number of defects more in design phase or coding phase? Number of defects can be more in design phase.
13. What kind of inputs do we need from the end user

to start proper testing?

Approved SRS/SDD/Test Case 14. What is the difference between Latent and Masked Defect? Latent Defect - An uncovered or unidentified bug which exists in the system over a period of time is referred as Latent Bug. The bug may exist in the system for one or more versions of the software and may also be identified after its release.

The problems caused by the Lateral bugs will not cause damage as of now, but they are just waiting to reveal themselves later. Masked Defect A defect which is hiding another defect.

15. A defect which could have been removed during initial stage is removed

in later stage how does it affect cost? For fixing the bug which is found in the later stage may cause in change of the structure/architecture of the application which may affect the schedule or can induce new bugs into the system.

16. In testing can you explain the concept of work bench? 17. What's the difference between Alpha and Beta testing? Alpha Testing Falls in UAT phase. Testing done in developers environment with the help of potential users/customers or an independent test team.

Beta Testing Beta testing is a form of external UAT. The application is released to the client and a small group of users and the user, developers and testers involve in this testing.

18. Can you explain the concept of defect cascading? Defect cascading - In a software development life cycle when a defect is present in any phase but is not identified, transfers to other phases without getting noticed. Thus resulting in increase in number of defects. 19. Can you explain how one defect leads to other defects? 20. Can you explain what is Usability testing? Usability testing is a technique for ensuring that the intended users of a system can carry out the intended tasks efficiently, effectively and satisfactorily. 21. What are the different strategies of rollout to the end users? 22. Can you explain requirement traceability and its importance? RTM is a matrix which helps to ensure if the current project requirements are being met. Structure of RTM Req ID SRS ID SDD ID UC ID Int TC ID Sys TC ID

23. What is the difference between Pilot and Beta testing? 24. How will you do a risk analysis during software testing? Identify the risk in the project (both external and internal) Identify the Risk exposure using the probability and impact of the risk

Identify the Mitigation plan Identify the Contingency plan

25. How do you conclude which section is most risky in your application? By identify the Risk exposure we will be able to identify which is more risky. 26. What does entry and exit criteria mean in a project? Entry criteria - Specified when to start testing. Some of the entry criteria are as below 1. Coding is complete and unit tested 2. Test Cases are written, peer reviewed and signed off
Exit criteria - Ensures that the testing of the application is completed and ready. Some of the exit criteria are as below

3. All the planned requirements must be met 4. All the high Priority bugs should be closed 5. All the test cases should be executed 6. If the scheduled time out is arrived 7. Test manager must sign off the release 27. On what basis is the Acceptance plan prepared? Acceptance Test plan is developed on the basis of the BRS. 28. What's the relation between environment reality and test phases? 29. What are different types of verifications? Walkthrough, Review, Inspection, Audits 30. What's the difference between Inspections and Walkthroughs? Inspection It is a review process on any work product by trained individuals who looks for defects using a well-defined process. Walkthrough Its a review process which consist of a team. One person will explain the product in a step by stem manner (Author). Another person who is responsible for conducting the walkthroughs (Leader). Another person who records all the activities in the walkthrough (Recorder). 31. Can you explain regression testing and confirmation testing?
32. What do you mean by coverage and what are the different types of coverage techniques?

33. How does fundamentally a coverage tool work?

34. What is configuration management? 35. Can you explain the concept of baseline in software development? 36. What are the different test plan documents in project?

37. How do test documents in a project span across software development life cycle? 38. Can you explain inventories?

39. How do you do Analysis and design for testing projects? 40. Can you explain calibration? 41. Which test cases are first written white boxes or black box? 42. Can you explain Cohabiting software? 43. What different impact rating's you have used in your project? 44. Can you explain what a test log is? 45. Explain SDLC (Software development Life Cycle) in detail? 46. Can you explain waterfall model? 47. Can you explain bigbang waterfall model? 48. Can you explain phased waterfall model? 49. Explain Iterative model, Incremental model, Spiral model, 50. Evolutionary model and VModel? 51. Explain Unit testing, Integration tests, System testing and 52. Acceptance testing? 53. what's the difference between system and acceptance testing? 54. Which is the best model? 55. What group of teams can do software testing? 56. Testing Techniques 57. Can you explain boundary value analysis? 58. What is BV in software testing? 59. Can you explain Equivalence partitioning? 60. Can you explain how state transition diagram can be helpful during 61. testing? 62. Can you explain random testing? 63. Can you explain monkey testing? 64. What is negative and positive testing? 65. Can you explain exploratory testing? 66. What exactly are semirandom test cases? 67. Can you explain the concept of orthogonal array? 68. Can you explain pairwise defect fundamental? 69. Can you explain the concept of decision tables? 70. How did you define severity ratings in your project? 71. CMMI

72. What is a Software process? 73. what are the different cost element involved in implementing process 74. in an organization? 75. Download Software testing interview questions Free PDF 76. Download Software testing interview questions Free PDF 2 77. What is a model? 78. What is maturity level? 79. Can you explain the concept of process area in CMMI? 80. Can you explain the concept of tailoring? 81. What is CMMI and what's the advantage of implementing CMMI in an 82. organization? 83. what's the difference between implementation and 84. Institutionalization? 85. what are different models in CMMI? 86. Can you explain staged and continuous models in CMMI? 87. Can you explain the different maturity levels in staged 88. representation? 89. Can you explain capability levels in continuous representation? 90. which model should we use and under what scenarios? 91. How many process areas are present in CMMI and in what classification 92. do they fall in? 93. What the difference between every level in CMMI? 94. what different sources are needed to verify authenticity for CMMI 95. implementation? 96. Can you explain SCAMPI process? 97. How is appraisal done in CMMI? 98. which appraisal method class is the best? 99. Can you explain the importance of PII in SCAMPI? 100. Can you explain implementation of CMMI in one of the Key process 101. areas? 102. Explanation of all process areas with goals and practices? 103. Can you explain the process areas? 104. Six Sigma 105. What is six sigma? 106. Can you explain the different methodology for execution and design 107. process in SIX sigma? 108. What does executive leaders, champions, Master Black belt, green 109. belts and black belts mean? 110. what are the different kinds of variations used in six sigma? 111. Can you explain the concept of standard deviation? 112. Can you explain QFD? 113. Can you explain FMEA? 114. Can you explain X bar charts? 115. Can you explain Flow charting and brain storming? 116. Can you explain the concept of fish bone/ Ishikawa diagram? 117. Metrics

118. What is meant by measure and metrics? 119. Can you explain Number of defects measure? 120. Can you explain number of production defects measure? 121. Can you explain defect seeding? 122. Can you explain DRE? 123. How do you measure test effectiveness? 124. Can you explain Defect age and Defect spoilage? 125. Download Software testing interview questions Free PDF 126. Download Software testing interview questions Free PDF 3 127. Automated Testing 128. What are good candidate for automation in testing? 129. which automation tool have you worked and can you explain them in 130. brief? 131. Can you explain how does load testing conceptually work for websites? 132. Can you explain how did you perform load testing using tool? 133. Can you explain the concept of datadriven testing? 134. Can you explain tabledriven testing? 135. How can you perform datadriven testing using Automated QA? 136. Testing Estimation 137. What are the different ways of doing black box testing? 138. Can you explain TPA analysis? 139. Can you explain in brief Function points? 140. Can you explain the concept Application boundary? 141. Can you explain the concept of elementary process? 142. Can you explain the concept of static and dynamic elementary process? 143. Can you explain concept of FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO , EQ and GSC ? 144. Can you explain on what basis does TPA actually work? 145. Can you explain step by step how did you do estimation for black box 146. testing? 147. How did you estimate white box testing? 148. Is there a way to estimate acceptance test cases in a system?