This question is surprisingly popular. However, the answer is quite simple. The goals of both are different: The goal of testing is to find the errors. The goal of QA is to prevent the errors in the program.

mithr17

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• Nov 2nd, 2011

Quality assurance is creating or streamlining existing testing techniques/protocols/procedures to create a quality product. Quality assurance will make sure correct and apt quality guidelines and proc...

Nidhi4.J

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• Apr 9th, 2010

QA is more a preventive thing, ensuring quality in the company and therefore the product rather than just testing the product for software bugs * TESTING means "quality control" * QUALITY CO...

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mathan_vel

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• Sep 9th, 2009

GEAR TO DELIVER.Deliver the product the Client/ Customer with out any Error.

preethi.gollamandala

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• Aug 11th, 2009

Delivering a quality software to customers with out any errors and along with super quality is the test objective

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mathan_vel

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• Sep 9th, 2009

Smoke Testing which should reveal simple failures severe enough to reject a prospective software release.which is structured.The tester "touches" all areas of the application without getting...

preethi.gollamandala

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• Aug 11th, 2009

Smoke testing is conducted by the developers where as Adhoc testing is conducted testers.Smoke testing is conducted to verify whether all the modules are working fine are not.Adhoc testing is like sys...

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praveen_manam

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• May 12th, 2008

Testing the application with the expectation that it does what it shouldn't do

Jyothi_E

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• Jun 6th, 2007

A tester should have test to break attitude, so a negative test case will help the tester to find out the defects easily.Writing a testcase by providing the inputs exactly opposite to that of the...

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sexy

• Aug 23rd, 2012

NFR: Non Functional Requirement is perquisite doc for PT. It define SLA, entry and exit criteria of PT.

mithr17

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• Nov 1st, 2011

Business requirements doc and functional requirements doc. Business requirements details the high-level requirements from business standpoint. So some of these would eventually become transactions du...

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Rohit

• Sep 2nd, 2015

@mithr17
Interviewer will sleep after listening the answer that you give it is dam big you should give extract of all points this answer is also incorrect and except that all answers are right

mithr17

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• Nov 3rd, 2011

@ kurtz182 The question is about "test" priorities and not "bug" priorities. Many of the organizations that have high quality gates set have started the trend of prioritizing the test cases. Your ans...

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If you never have seen automation tools before, do not try to fool around the interviewer. You produce a bad impression when "caught" on lying to the interviewer. However, if you ever used the automation tools, it would be a huge advantage for us to mention them even if those tools were proprietary automation tools of your previous company. Be prepared then to answer general automation testing questions....

Vidhya

• Sep 16th, 2007

Yes, We have used SilkTest in our project for automation of test cases. We use it for functional testing and regression testing. Silktest uses an object oriented scripting language - 4Test. It is str...

idreams27

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• Jul 23rd, 2007

Yes i have used WinRunner 7.5 and 8.2 versions. Also i have evaluated few opensource automation testing tools.Are you looking for automation tools specifically like winrunner or you are ok with opensource tools also.RegardsNarasimha

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Sreejith

• May 26th, 2016

Quality is meeting the customers requirement in the given timelines with proper budget and with no bugs and errors.

CHAKRi.Y

• Aug 19th, 2014

Quality ?means the application thoroughly ?find and the customers expectations ?are reached then the application ?is quality.?

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sushma_srikrishna

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• Nov 27th, 2007

test case has three sections Header, Body, footer. The body of test case is called as test case template.header has following 1. test case name         &nb...

akbarali

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• Oct 5th, 2007

Test case template is a document which contains detailed information about a test case.Testcase idTestcase nameFeatures to be testedTest SuiteIdPriorityTest EnvTest EffortTest DurationTest SetupData Matrix or Test ProcedureTestcase passed/failed criteria

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tejal

• Mar 26th, 2016

Equivalence Testing i) In equivalence class testing the input domain of the program is partitioned into classes ii) The no. of test cases generated are equal to the no. of valid and invalid classes ii...

tanu

• Dec 3rd, 2014

Expected should be relates to clients requirement where as actual result relates to Application under test, when we execute script actual should match with expected then it is passed , or else failed test (defect)

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mithr17

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• Nov 2nd, 2011

@Kalayan_M : It would be great if you can explain terms by using examples. We all understand concepts well when examples are used. Clearly, you do not understand domain or how to test it. You just se...

kurtz182

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• Dec 24th, 2009

Domain refers to a body of knowledge in a particular field or industry.Domain testing are testing activities that require knowledge of an industry's domain.  For example, testing a banking ap...

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mithr17

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• Nov 30th, 2011

I agree with everyone who said priority is based on business and severity is based on the technical severity.

That is how the bugs are triaged!

savitha vaidya

• Oct 15th, 2007

Yes. There could be low severity - high priority bugs.

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Anjali Gaikwad

• Aug 7th, 2015

Waterfall model is step by step process
Spiral Model is Iterative Process
Prototype Model is certainly changing Process

Kundan Kotangale

• Feb 7th, 2015

Waterfall model:- 1. It is a linear sequential life cycle model it is also called classical model. it is proposed by Royce so that it is called as Royce model 2. when the requirement of the customer ...

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mithr17

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• Nov 2nd, 2011

May I suggest wikipedia. Invest your time wisely by reading Wikipedia for these kinds of general questions or search this site.

mathan_vel

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• Sep 25th, 2009

A sample testing cycle Although variations exist between organizations, there is a typical cycle for testing: Requirements Analysis: Testing should begin in the requirements phase of the softw...

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mathan_vel

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• Sep 25th, 2009

Defect Imperfection, flaw, or deficiency. That which is subject to a defect is missing a requisite element and, therefore, is not legally binding. Defective service of process, for example, is service...

akbarali

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• Oct 5th, 2007

Error - a mistake in the programme found by programmer himself.defect - a mismatch between expected and actual as found by a tester.bug - defect accepted by Defect Tracking Team and fixed by developers

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dsgasd

• Aug 2nd, 2017

Regression is the one type of testing in which we test whether the changes made in the one module may effected in the other module. Let us think an application which shows the total count of seats in...

vinayagam

• Apr 17th, 2015

Types of testing
1.Smoke testing
2.Sanity testing
3.Functional testing
4. UI testing
5.Performance testing
6. Security testing

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Swathi

• Jul 28th, 2017

Expected result is the written result in test cases which is expected at the time of execution. Actual result is reaching expected result while execution.

vijaya chalasani

• Aug 7th, 2014

Expected should be relates to clients requirement where as actual result relates to Application under test, when we execute script actual should match with expected then it is passed , or else failed test (defect)

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mithr17

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• Nov 2nd, 2011

Test condition; simple!

Test condition can be a feature, piece of functionality, or anything that you intend to verify. In simple terms the goal of a test case.
Let's suppose you wrote a test case for yahoo mail authentication. In this case, test condition is the login functionality.

zmj

• Jul 16th, 2011

Test Case Id Number is the most Imp,Without which you cannot identify its Requirements and its traceability

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What are the different types of reviews and explain?

GURUBATHAM DAVID

• Sep 6th, 2016

There are 4 types of review
I Critical review
II Analytical review
II Technical review
III General review (Formal,informal,semi formal)
IV Personal review (informal)

gopinathks9

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• Nov 19th, 2014

Self Review
Peer Review
Manager Review
Customer Review

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Structural is a "white box" testing and based on the algorithm or code. Functional testing is a "black box" (behavioral) testing where the tester verifies the functional specification.

Manisha Malhotra

• Nov 24th, 2011

Functional testing (also known as black-box testing), is a software testing approach in which: 1. the tester will have a user perspective in mind, 2. not knowing and doesn't mind how the program work...

Shruti77

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• Jul 18th, 2008

Structural testing is a white box testing. where a tester looks into the code and performs the testing.Functional testing is a black  box testing. where a tester  performs testing without lo...

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