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What made you pick testing over another career?
kurtz182
- Dec 27th, 2009
Testing fits my personality:1) I enjoy thinking critically about things.2) I like to be creative. 3) I enjoy identifying problems.4) I care about people and customer advocacy.5) I enjoy having a direct impact on the quality of products and services.
Basavaraj
- Aug 10th, 2005
I am very proud be as a tester because a tester needs to know each and every activities in the SDLC, and his role in more important/ responsible when the the quality aspects are concerned.If a develop...
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What is a PLM domain or what will be domain of web based product?
kurtz182
- Dec 27th, 2009
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) refers to the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. It manages de...
Anu
- Sep 19th, 2006
PLM stands for Product Lifecycle Management
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Thanks in Advance,
Shantanu">I was asked in an Interview"Is CMM(Capability Maturity Model) part of Quality Assurance or Quality Control?"Thanks in Advance,Shantanu
kurtz182
- Dec 27th, 2009
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a model used to improve organizational business processes, but it was orginally designed to improve the software development process.
Dharmakrishnan
- Dec 19th, 2006
Hi CMM deals with the standard and procedure so it is the part of Quality Assurance who is responsible for those things
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What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?
kurtz182
- Dec 26th, 2009
A test strategy describes the general approach to testing in terms of people, tools, procedures and support. A test plan is a document that describes the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended testing activities.A test plan often includes the organization's test strategies.
Gurjala Suresh
- Jun 15th, 2006
hi viewers,Test Strategy; It is a Document and it specifies required test to be applied on corresponding build.Test Plan: It is a Document and it specifies "What to test", "When to test", "How to test", "Who to Test".
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If testcases are excuted with existing requirements and the requirements are frequently changing, what steps fot be taken for the test completion ?
kurtz182
- Dec 22nd, 2009
A question to ask yourself: Did you anticipate the frequency of requirement changes in your test estimation? If not, then the time and resources required to test this project must be revis...
kartheeban
- Dec 23rd, 2006
When ever there is the change in requirement, it should be updated in the SRS and the Test Case Document should also be updated.Only if SRS is updated we can check wether all the Test case are tracable to the SRS.
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What is banking domain and explain briefly?
kurtz182
- Dec 22nd, 2009
Domain is the body of knowledge that a person possesses about something. It is a shortened version of the phrase "Domain Knowledge". Banking domain simply refers to knowledge of the banking industry.
kr1shna
- Nov 12th, 2006
hi shiva, Banking domain is nothing but software division in a bank. most of the banks are computerised now, the required s/w which is used will be under maintainance and very little enhancements. Guys who work on this s/w can say that they are in banking domain. -kr1shna
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What are test closure documents?
kurtz182
- Dec 15th, 2009
In my company, a Test Closure Document contains a checklist of all of the items that must be met in order to close a test project as well as a list of activities that must be performed after the ...
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What is the Performance testing; those can be done Manually & Automatically?
kurtz182
- Dec 15th, 2009
A basic definition: Performance testing is any testing that verifies whether or not the performance of something is acceptible. These are often formal tests which use elaborate tools (like...
vdas
- Jan 1st, 2007
In Performance testing we test mainly to determine how fast some aspect of a system performs under a particular workload. under this we test generally a) responce time b) turnaroundtime c)throughput e...
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On what basis can we say that a product is thoroughly tested and handed over to customer?
kurtz182
- Dec 15th, 2009
The answer to this question depends on the terms of contract. In some cases, this condition is met by satisfying the exit criteria. In other cases, an acceptance test is required by the customer.
prasad
- Dec 24th, 2006
hello,Before the test execution we prepare a document called tracebility matrix. It deals with the two baseline documents..eg. usecases & test cases....we would be getting know all the test cases ...
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What is the main difference between Boundary value Analysis and Equivalance partitioning.
dhananjay.shinde
- Dec 12th, 2009
In EC we can check or we can test both number field and also alphanumeric field butin BVA we can check or test only number field but we can't test alphanumeric field.
Deepa Ramalingam
- Jun 15th, 2006
Equivalence partitioning: Divide or partition a set of test conditions into groups or sets that can be considered same or equal, hence equivalence partitioning. Also called as equivalence classes .Bou...
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Difference between SRS and FRS?
kurtz182
- Dec 11th, 2009
A Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is a comprehensive description of the behavior of a system to be developed. It includes use cases that describe all of the interactions that users wil...
shobha
- Jun 13th, 2007
SRS is software requirement specification and FRS? is Functional requirement Specifications, i want to know how FRS is derived from SRS
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What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve it?
mathan_vel
- Dec 10th, 2009
I faced the problem when I was assigned & mapped to the Project (Final Release was short). It was very complicated to Test the application with in this short period. Unable to understand the...
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How would you define Quality Assurance?
mathan_vel
- Dec 10th, 2009
Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. It is a set of activities int...
Kavitha Roberts
- Nov 30th, 2005
System of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all research, design, performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities are o...
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What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?
mathan_vel
- Dec 10th, 2009
1. Creative thinking of Application to test with different ways(various scenario).2. Skill Set, Different Domain & Technical Knowledge
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What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?
mathan_vel
- Dec 10th, 2009
Software Testing: A set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in software.Quality Assurance: All those planned or systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer.
Vani
- May 25th, 2007
Quality Assurance:A set of activities that are adequate to ensure that system meets its objectivesTesting: A process of executing the system intending to find defects.
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Mission-Critical Defects
What would you do if you discovered that mission-critical defects had been missed by the test team and are now in production?
mathan_vel
- Dec 7th, 2009
As a Tester, i will notice and report the defect to the Test Lead and tell the importance of Critical severity level. Necessary Test Scenario(s), Test Step(s) has to be noted of the pointed defect.As ...
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Root Cause of Defect
A product has released to production and customers are reporting significant problems with a particular functionality. You investigate the test suite to find a set of related test cases that have been reported as 'Pass'. What are the possible root causes when a defect is found in production and how would you handle each situation?
mathan_vel
- Dec 7th, 2009
Let me execute once again the defect Testcases with the given(actual) Testing Environment and investigate the same in the Customer Environment.i.e) Testers might execute the cases in Windows 2003 edit...
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How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
The answer to this question depends on your role in the test team. The Test Manager, Test Lead, and Tester will approach the process differently. I will answer this question as if it were ...
Gangadhar Nidudavolu
- Jan 6th, 2006
The Scope can be defined from the BRS, SRS, FRS or from functional points. It may be anything that is provided by the client. And regarding organizing we need to analyze the functionality to be covere...
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Testing Integrated Software Components
What are the challenges when software components are being brought together from different business units and must be integrated and tested?
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
Some challenges are:1) Geography and Time Zones: Every aspect and phase of the project becomes more difficult when stakeholders span across different geographical regions and time zon...
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Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report?
Answer posted by Ravi on 2005-06-01 13:25:52: The bugs are entered into a bug-reporting tool. Nowadays, every organization uses the Test Director as their Test Management Tool. This has Defects section, where you can follow the Steps after Clicking Add Defect Button. If your organization uses a different tool for entering defects, the first Step in entering a defect is give a Name or Summary of the...
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
The elements of a defect report are:a) Defect IDb) Current status of defect (Open, Resolved, Not Repro, etc.)c) Application versiond) Tester namee) Test case numberf) Priority levelg) Severity levelh)...
gettoknow
- Dec 2nd, 2007
in defect report followings elements are to be includedbug idapplication version test case numberbug detail descriptionis bug reproducibletester nametest datebug detected datebug description in a line...
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