Interview Questions & Answers for Software Testing

1. What’s the Software Testing?
A set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in software.

2.  What is Ad Hoc Testing?

A testing phase where the tester tries to 'break' the system by randomly trying the system's functionality.

3. What is Application Binary Interface (ABI)?

A specification defining requirements for portability of applications in binary forms across different system platforms and environments. Software Testing Training in Chennai

4. What is the difference between verification and validation?

Verification is a review without actually executing the process while validation is checking the product with actual execution. For instance, code review and syntax check is verification while actually running the product and checking the results is validation.

5. What is End-to-End testing ?

Testing a complete application environment in a situation that mimics real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or systems if appropriate.

6. What is Cause Effect Graph?

A graphical representation of inputs and the associated outputs effects which can be used to design test cases.

7. What are the different Ways of doing Black Box testing?

There are five methodologies most frequently used:
A)Top down according to budget
B)WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
C)Guess and gut feeling
D)Early project data
E)TPA (Test Point Analysis)

8. How many types of approaches are used in Integration Testing?

There are two types of approaches used-
Bottom-Up
Top-Down

9. What is Gray Box Testing?

A combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies testing a piece of software against its specification but using some knowledge of its internal workings.

10. What is Metric?

A standard of measurement. Software metrics are the statistics describing the structure or content of a program. A metric should be a real objective measurement of something such as number of bugs per lines of code.

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