MANUAL WORKSHOP QUESTIONS

MANUAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Exercise 1

1)      In How Many Ways Software Companies do Business?         

2)      How Service Based Companies do Business?

3)      How Product Based Companies do Business?

4)      Is There any  Much Difference  for a Tester to Work in  Service  Based  and Product Based  Companies

5)      How a Product will Become Successful in the  Market

6)      Define Project and Product in  Your own Words

7)      As a Tester  what you will do in Service Based and Product Based                                      Companies

8)      Tell me  Some Examples   for  Project and Product

                          Exercise 2

      1)  Define Quality in your own words                                 

            2)  How any Company can grow successfully?

3)      Why we need to deliver a quality product?

4)      What is the ultimate  goal of any company and how to achieve it

5)      What is testing?

6)      Why we need to do testing?

7)      If testing is not done what will happen?

8)      How can you say any software application is a quality application?

9)      What is a defect?

10)  Who will find defects and who will rectify defects?

11)  Explain what will happen after rectification of defect?

Exercise 3

1)      Why any company is there in this world?                   

2)      Why customers need software?

3)      In how many ways customer approach   software companies?

4)      How customers generally   finalize and select Software Company?                    

5)      Explain the bidding process  in your own words

6)      How software companies get projects   ?     

7)      What is the importance of software now a days explain with some examples

8)      How much % of business now a day depending on software’s?                         

9)      If existing software’s   does not work what will happen?

10)   What is the first activity in the software company after getting a new project?

                          Exercise 4

1)   What is the purpose of kick off meeting   ?     

2)       Who will involve  in KOM

3)       What is the need of domain Experts involvement in KOM?

4)       What is domain?

5)       What is the need of Customer Representative in KOM?

6)       Why they call this meeting as KOM? Is this the only meeting called as         KOM?

7)       On what basis project manager will be selected?

8)       Once project manager is selected what he will do?

9)        What is PIN? & what is the purpose of it?

10)    Who will prepare PIN?  &for whome it will be sent?

                            Exercise 5

1)   Explain what business analyst will do in initial phase?

2)      What is the use of template in Software Company?

3)      Explain advantage of prototype?

4)       If at all, customer gives any extra requirement’s then who will handle that & how he will handle it?

5)       Who is the author of requirement document?

6)       What is the name of outcome document of initial phase in your company?

7)       Which document will be the outcome of initial phase?

8)        Basically the outcome document of initial phase is prepared based on?

                            Exercise 6

1)      What is the input document of analysis phase?

2)      What are the things which are generally analyze during analysis phase?

3)      If at all, feasibility study is not done? What will happen?

4)      What is the use of tentative planning? When it many be changed in future?

5)      Who will decide the technology information to develop the project?

6)      If customer suggests the technology our company will directly accept it or not?

7)      Why the environment should be confirmed or finalized in the initial stages only?

8)      What do you mean by requirement analysis?

9)      What is the outcome document of analysis phase?

10)   Who is the author of SRS?

Exercise 7

1)      What is the input document for design phase?

2)      What is high-level design?

3)      What is low-level design?

4)      Why high-level & low-level designs need to be done?

5)      What is the language used by the chief architect during design?

6)      What does T.D.D contains?

7)      What is Pseudo code? What is the use of it?

8)      What is GUI? What is use of it?

9)      What is the Software application?

10)   What is the responsibility of technical lead in the design phase?

11)   What is the input document of coding phase?

12)   How the developer will develop the actual code?

13)   What do you mean by coding standards & how they are useful?

14)   What is the outcome document of coding phase?

15)   What the developers will understand from T.D.D & how it is useful for developers while developing the actual code?

                             

Exercise 8

1)      Is the source code document, input for testing phase?

2)      What are 2 inputs testing department receives?

3)      While understanding the requirements if at all testers get any doubts, in how many ways they will clarity them? Explain?

4)      After understanding the requirements what testers will do?

5)      What do you mean by test case?

6)      After writing the test cases, what we will receive from the development department?

7)      Once first build is received, what testers will do?

8)      What is the document used for sending the defects to the development department?

9)      What is a defect?

10)   Once next build is released, what testers will do?

11)   If at all some defects are not rectified what testers will do?

12)   What is the outcome of testing phase?

13)   What is the need of testing?

14)   What are the things the tester will check during testing?

15)   If test engineer need to test something, first he need to understand what?

16)   Generally testing process starts with---------------------

Exercise 9

1)  Who will deliver the application & how they will do it?

2)  How many types of maintenance are there?

3)  Whom we call as onsite employees?

4)  Can customers can also go for own maintenance?

5)  Who will do unconventional testing?

6)  Who will do conventional testing?

7)  What is the main goal of conventional testing?

8)  What is the main goal of unconventional testing?

9)   In a software company, how many department will take are of quality? &          what are they?

Exercise 10

1)      How many methods (or) techniques are there in testing?

2)      Who will do gray box testing?

3)      Why so many companies do not encourage gray boxing testing?

4)      Why companies separately maintaining? Black box testers & white    box testers?

5)      In how many stages testing need to be conducted & what are those stages ?

6)      Who will do unit level testing?

7)      In module level why black box test   engineers will not concentrate on              structural part?

8)      To integrate the modules what   developers will develop & who will test  them?

9)      Generally what approaches are   followed to integrate modules?

10)  Why big bang approach is avoid by   many companies?

11)   Is there any particular situation   where we need to go for hybrid   application?

12)   What is stub & driver?

13)   Whenever any mandatory module    is missing will you wait till the     module is developed if no then   explain how will you proceed?

14)   What is a system?

15)   Who will do what in system level    testing?

16)   What is need of system integration testing?

17)   Is Only system integration testing    conducted in system level testing?

18)    Who will do user acceptance level    testing?

19)   What is purpose of user acceptance    level testing whenever black box     test engineers feel that system is    working fine in system level itself?

Exercise 11

1)      In which situations we suggest stand     alone environment?

2)      On what basis we can suggest an    environment to the customer?

3)      What are advantages of client server environment?

4)      What are drawbacks of client server environment?

5)      When ever web environment is looking    better then client server then in which   situations we go for client server    environment?

6)      When ever we are using client server environment then what is need of web environment?

7)      When ever distributed environment is similar to web environment then what is need of distributed environment?

8)      What is thin client?

9)      What is thick client?

10)   Why both business logic & database     logic are not maintained in single servers?

11)   In web environment where we find     the business logic? What is advantage of having there?

12)   Why test engineer need to have test     environment knowledge?

                                                              

Exercise 12

1)      What do you mean by model?

2)      Will all the companies follow the same model?

3)      All the company will follow same model for all the projects? If no? Explain?

4)      Explain difference between V-model & waterfall model?

5)      In which situation generally they will go for prototype model?

6)      How many types of proto types are developed what are they?

7)      Tell me 1 major drawback of prototype model?

8)       Explain verification, validation in your own words?

9)       During validation also, verification will be conducted? Say yes or No

10)   Validation mainly focus on-----------

11)   Verification mainly focus on ---------

12)   What do you mean by port? Port testing?

                                                                               

Exercise 13

1)      What is build acceptance testing & generally what we check in that?

2)      Without doing build acceptance testing, if we accept the build, what problems we many face?

3)      Will we do build acceptance testing after every build is released, while doing is released?

4)      What is building acceptance testing & generally want we check in that?

5)      Once first build is released, while doing detailed testing, retesting is required? If yes? Why?

6)      Once first build is released? Will we do regression testing?

7)      Regression testing starts from --------------& continues to ----------------

8)      Retesting required to be done, during regression testing? If yes? Why?

9)      What do you mean by re& regression testing?

10)   Retesting starts from ---------& continues till ---------------

11)   Is it required, to perform regression testing always during testing? If no? Explain?

12)   Is it true that retesting is required always during regression testing?

13)   With what type of testing, we start testing process?

Exercise 14

1)      Tell me difference between alpha &   beta testing?

2)      Whenever alpha testing is conducted,   what is the need of beta testing?

3)      Is beta testing always needed to be conducted? If no? Explain?

4)      What is the importance of alpha and beta testing?

5)      Generally which customer prefers to go for beta testing?

6)      Is alpha testing conducted on customer interest or companies’ interest?

7)      What are the benefits of beta testing?

8)      What we will achieve after alpha    testing?

9)      In which place, Beta testing is done?

10)   In which place, alpha testing is conducted?

11)   Beta testing is conducted by whom?

12)   If beta testing is not conducted, what problems company may face?

13)   Define static & dynamic testing?

14)   Document testing falls under---------

15)   GUI testing falls under------testing

16)   Code reviews falls under------ testing

17)   Functionality falls under------testing

18)   Performance falls under-------testing

19)   Usability falls under----------testing

Exercise 15

1)      What is the main purpose of    installation testing?

2)      After every new build is released will we do installation testing? No?

3)      Compatibility testing is compulsory conducted in------------ based companies

4)      What is mutation testing?

5)      What do you mean by “mutant”?

6)      Give some examples for mutation testing?

7)      What is security testing?

8)      Who will do security testing?

9)      Which areas generally black box test engineers will concentrate in security testing?

10)   Explain how will you do direct URL testing?

11)   Explain difference between direct URL testing& user privileges testing?

12)   Who will do authentication testing? How it will be done?

13)   Can every authorized user of the application can access all the areas of the application? If no –explain?

Exercise 16

1)      What is end to end testing? Is it compulsory for every project?

2)      While doing end to end testing how black box testing engineer should think & get ideas?

3)      What do you mean by end to end?

4)      What is the difference between compatibility testing & port   testing?

5)      What are the advantages of port testing?

6)      Is compatibility testing required for projects also? Explain?

7)      If we don’t do usability testing? What will be    the main problem?

8)      Give me some areas where we generally check the friendliness?

9)      How can we say any product is a quality product?

10)   Tell me some type of testing which are not required for all the projects?

11)   Tell me some important types of testing which need to be conducted on any project?

Exercise 17

1)  Tell me 2 types of stress testing?

            2)  What is difference between monkey testing & reliability testing?

3)  What do you focus during monkey testing?

4)  What do you focus during reliability testing?

5)  How u will do monkey testing?

6)  How you will do reliability testing manually?

7)  Can we do reliability testing manually?

8)  Can we do exploratory testing manually?

9)   What is the need of exploratory testing?

10)  In which situations we prefer exploratory testing?

11)   Is it compulsory to do exploratory testing on all the projects?

12)   Can a fresher do exploratory testing?

13)  What is the difference between exploratory & adhoc testing?

14)  Who will do adhoc testing?

15)   When the adhoc testing need to be done?

16)   What is the main goal of adhoc testing?

17)   What do you mean by exploring?

18)   In all the companies the Adhoc testing need to be encouraged on all the   Projects?  Explain?

Exercise 18

1)      What is the use of “objective” in the test plan document?

2)      Generally which documents test lead will refer while preparing test plan document?

3)       With whom the test lead will involve in the meeting before starting the test plan?

4)      What will be there under features not be tested? Explain with some examples?

5)      What do you mean by out of scope feature?

6)      What do you mean by future functionality?

7)      Why low risk areas are not initially concentrated?

8)      What is the difference between test plan & test strategy?

9)       When we have test strategy, what is need of test plan?

10)   The contents in the test strategy will describe?

11)   What do you mean by test metric?

12)   Do all companies use same “terminology”?

      13)   Name any two test design techniques?

                  14)  What is the use of test design techniques?

Exercise 19

1)      When will you stop testing?

      2)  When will you suspend testing?

3)  Can a test engineer take own decision & suspend the application?

4)  What do you mean by test deliverables? Why test engineer should have   knowledge of test environment?

5)  What is resource planning? & scheduling?

6)  Tell me some situations where training is required to accomplish the project    successfully?

7)  Whenever a new project comes, will they rewrite a new staff? If yes? Explain?

8)  What do you mean by risk, contingencies with example?

9)  When ever a customer imposes the deadlines how will you handle the situation?

10)  Whenever the time given is not sufficient, what will you do?

11)  What do you mean by assumptions?

12)  Should a test engineer, always need to assume during testing?

13)  Who will approve test plan document?

14)   Who will prepare test plan document?

15)   What is purpose of test plan document?

16)    Does test engineer prepare test plan document?

17)    Whenever the time given is not sufficient, what will you do?

                                                           

Exercise 20

1)  What will be there in requirement documents?

      2)  What a test engineer should mainly focus in the requirements document?

      3)  What is the use of screen shots in the requirements document?

4)  What do you mean by use case & what is the use of it?

5)  What is the difference between high level information & low level information?

6)   What is the difference between implicit requirements & explicit requirements?

7)  What will define implicit requirements & what is use of it?

8)  What is pre condition & post condition?

9)  Basically any application has how many flows?

10) Soon after a test engineer receives use case document what he will do? Explain briefly?

11) What is the functional point?

12) What is the difference between test scenario & a test case?