S/W Quality Assurance Certification Interview Questions & Answers Download PDF
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35 S/W Quality Assurance Questions and Answers:
S/W Quality Assurance Job Interview Questions Table of Contents:
1 :: Explain Coverage measurement
a. is nothing to do with testing
b. is a partial measure of test thoroughness
c. branch coverage should be mandatory for all software
d. can only be applied at unit or module testing, not at system testing
b. is a partial measure of test thoroughness
2 :: Explain Which of the following is NOT a type of non-functional test?
a. State-Transition
b. Usability
c. Performance
d. Security
a. State-Transition
4 :: Tell me What is Agile Testing?
Testing practice for projects using agile methodologies, treating development as the customer of testing and emphasizing a test-first design paradigm.
5 :: Can you explain What is Acceptance Testing?
Testing conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether to accept a software product. Normally performed to validate the software meets a set of agreed acceptance criteria.
6 :: Explain What is Ad Hoc Testing?
A testing phase where the tester tries to 'break' the system by randomly trying the system's functionality. Can include negative testing as well.
7 :: Explain When should you stop testing?
a. when time for testing has run out.
b. when all planned tests have been run
c. when the test completion criteria have been met
d. when no faults have been found by the tests run
c. when the test completion criteria have been met
8 :: Explain Which of the following is a black box design technique?
a. statement testing
b. equivalence partitioning
c. error- guessing
d. usability testing
b. equivalence partitioning
9 :: Explain Which is not true-The black box tester
a. should be able to understand a functional specification or requirements document
b. should be able to understand the source code.
c. is highly motivated to find faults
d. is creative to find the system?s weaknesses
b. should be able to understand the source code.
10 :: Explain What is Basis Path Testing?
A white box test case design technique that uses the algorithmic flow of the program to design tests.
12 :: Explain which of the following statements is not true
a. performance testing can be done during unit testing as well as during the testing of whole system
b. The acceptance test does not necessarily include a regression test
c. Verification activities should not involve testers (reviews, inspections etc)
d. Test environments should be as similar to production environments as possible
c. Verification activities should not involve testers (reviews, inspections etc)
13 :: Explain The later in the development life cycle a fault is discovered, the more expensive it is to fix. why?
a. the documentation is poor, so it takes longer to find out what the software is doing.
b. wages are rising
c. the fault has been built into more documentation,code,tests, etc
d. none of the above
c. the fault has been built into more documentation,code,tests, etc
14 :: Explain Which of the following tools would you use to detect a memory leak?
a. State analysis
b. Coverage analysis
c. Dynamic analysis
d. Memory analysis
c. Dynamic analysis
16 :: Explain What is the main reason for testing software before releasing it?
a. to show that system will work after release
b. to decide when the software is of sufficient quality to release
c. to find as many bugs as possible before release
d. to give information for a risk based decision about release
d. to give information for a risk based decision about release
18 :: Explain which of the following statements are true?
a. Faults in program specifications are the most expensive to fix.
b. Faults in code are the most expensive to fix.
c. Faults in requirements are the most expensive to fix
d. Faults in designs are the most expensive to fix.
c. Faults in requirements are the most expensive to fix
20 :: Explain Which of the following is the odd one out?
a. white box
b. glass box
c. structural
d. functional
d. functional
21 :: Explain Which of the following is not the integration strategy?
a. Design based
b. Big-bang
c. Bottom-up
d. Top-down
a. Design based
23 :: Testware(test cases, test dataset)
a. needs configuration management just like requirements, design and code
b. should be newly constructed for each new version of the software
c. is needed only until the software is released into production or use
d. does not need to be documented and commented, as it does not form part of the released
software system
a. needs configuration management just like requirements, design and code
25 :: Increasing the quality of the software, by better development methods, will affect the time needed for testing (the test phases) by:
a. reducing test time
b. no change
c. increasing test time
d. cant say
a. reducing test time
