Manual Testing Interview Questions part-4
92. What is Static Analysis?
Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
93. What is Static Analyzer?
A tool that carries out static analysis.
94. What is Static Testing?
Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
95. What is Storage Testing?
Testing that verifies the program under test stores data files in the
correct directories and that it reserves sufficient space to prevent
unexpected termination resulting from lack of space. This is external
storage as opposed to internal storage.
96. What is Stress Testing?
Testing conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the
limits of its specified requirements to determine the load under which it
fails and how. Often this is performance testing using a very high level
of simulated load.
97. What is Structural Testing?
Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a
piece of software. See also White Box Testing.
98. What is System Testing?
Testing that attempts to discover defects that are properties of the
entire system rather than of its individual components.
99. What is Testability?
The degree to which a system or component facilitates the
establishment of test criteria and the performance of tests to determine
whether those criteria have been met.
100. What is Testing?
The process of exercising software to verify that it satisfies specified
requirements and to detect errors. The process of analyzing a software
item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions
(that is, bugs), and to evaluate the features of the software item (Ref.
IEEE Std 829). The process of operating a system or component under
specified conditions, observing or recording the results, and making an
evaluation of some aspect of the system or component. What is Test
Automation? It is the same as Automated Testing.
101. What is Test Bed?
An execution environment configured for testing. May consist of specific
hardware, OS, network topology, configuration of the product under
test, other application or system software, etc. The Test Plan for a
project should enumerated the test beds(s) to be used.
102. What is Test Case?
Test Case is a commonly used term for a specific test. This is usually the
smallest unit of testing. A Test Case will consist of information such as
requirements testing, test steps, verification steps, prerequisites,
outputs, test environment, etc. A set of inputs, execution preconditions,
and expected outcomes developed for a particular objective, such as to
exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a
specific requirement. Test Driven Development? Testing methodology
associated with Agile Programming in which every chunk of code is
covered by unit tests, which must all pass all the time, in an effort to
eliminate unit-level and regression bugs during development.
Practitioners of TDD write a lot of tests, i.e. an equal number of lines of
test code to the size of the production code.
103. What is Test Driver?
A program or test tool used to execute tests. Also known as a Test
Harness.
104. What is Test Environment?
The hardware and software environment in which tests will be run, and
any other software with which the software under test interacts when
under test including stubs and test drivers.
105. What is Test First Design?
Test-first design is one of the mandatory practices of Extreme
Programming (XP).It requires that programmers do not write any
production code until they have first written a unit test.
106. What is Test Harness?
A program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test
Driver.
107. What is Test Plan?
A document describing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of
intended testing activities. It identifies test items, the features to be
tested, the testing tasks, who will do each task, and any risks requiring
contingency planning.
108. What is Test Procedure?
A document providing detailed instructions for the execution of one or
more test cases.
109. What is Test Script?
Commonly used to refer to the instructions for a particular test that will
be carried out by an automated test tool.
110. What is Test Specification?
A document specifying the test approach for a software feature or
combination or features and the inputs, predicted results and execution
conditions for the associated tests.
111. What is Test Suite?
A collection of tests used to validate the behavior of a product. The
scope of a Test Suite varies from organization to organization. There
may be several Test Suites for a particular product for example. In most
cases however a Test Suite is a high level concept, grouping together
hundreds or thousands of tests related by what they are intended to
test.
112. What is Test Tools?
Computer programs used in the testing of a system, a component of the
system, or its documentation.
113. What is Thread Testing?
A variation of top-down testing where the progressive integration of
components follows the implementation of subsets of the
requirements, as opposed to the integration of components by
successively lower levels.
114. What is Top Down Testing?
An approach to integration testing where the component at the top of
the component hierarchy is tested first, with lower level components
being simulated by stubs. Tested components are then used to test
lower level components. The process is repeated until the lowest level
components have been tested.
115. What is Total Quality Management?
A company commitment to develop a process that achieves high quality
product and customer satisfaction.
116. What is Traceability Matrix?
A document showing the relationship between Test Requirements and
Test Cases.
117. What is Usability Testing?
Testing the ease with which users can learn and use a product.
