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Software Testing Interview Notes

The document provides an overview of software testing, including its definition, importance, and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). It outlines various testing levels, types, principles, and techniques, as well as the bug life cycle and key concepts like severity, priority, regression, and retesting. Additionally, it discusses Agile testing practices and mentions tools used in manual testing.

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Software Testing Interview Notes

The document provides an overview of software testing, including its definition, importance, and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). It outlines various testing levels, types, principles, and techniques, as well as the bug life cycle and key concepts like severity, priority, regression, and retesting. Additionally, it discusses Agile testing practices and mentions tools used in manual testing.

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Software Testing Interview Preparation Notes

1. What is Software Testing?

Software Testing is a process used to identify the correctness, completeness, and quality of

developed computer software. It includes a set of activities conducted with the intent of finding

errors in software so that it could be corrected before the product is released to the end-users.

2. Why is Software Testing important?

Testing helps ensure that the software product is reliable, functions as expected, and is free from

defects. It also helps improve the quality of the product and ensures that customer requirements are

met.

3. What is SDLC and its phases?

SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. It includes phases such as: Requirement

Gathering, System Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance.

4. What is STLC?

STLC stands for Software Testing Life Cycle. It includes Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test

Case Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Execution, and Test Closure.

5. What are the Principles of Software Testing?

1. Testing shows presence of defects

2. Exhaustive testing is impossible

3. Early testing saves time and cost

4. Defect clustering

5. Pesticide paradox

6. Testing is context dependent

7. Absence-of-errors is a fallacy
6. Explain different levels of testing.

Levels of testing include:

- Unit Testing: Individual components

- Integration Testing: Interaction between modules

- System Testing: Complete system

- UAT: Done by users to validate requirements

7. What are the types of testing?

Functional: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Retesting

Non-Functional: Performance, Load, Usability, Security

8. What are Test Case Design Techniques?

Black Box Testing techniques: Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Table,

State Transition, Use Case Testing

9. What is the Bug Life Cycle?

Stages: New -> Assigned -> Open -> Fixed -> Retest -> Verified -> Closed/Reopened ->

Deferred/Rejected

10. What is the difference between Test Case and Test Scenario?

Test Case is a detailed set of steps to validate a functionality, while a Test Scenario is a high-level

idea of what to test.

11. What are Severity and Priority?

Severity defines the impact of the defect on the application.

Priority defines the order in which the defect should be fixed.

12. What is Regression and Retesting?

Regression Testing: Ensure existing functionality still works after changes.

Retesting: Test failed test cases after a defect is fixed.


13. What is Agile Testing?

Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development.

Testing is done continuously and iteratively with frequent feedback.

14. What is a Test Plan?

A Test Plan is a document detailing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended test

activities.

15. Tools used in Manual Testing?

Bug Tracking: JIRA, Bugzilla

Test Management: TestLink, Excel

API Testing: Postman

Automation (if applicable): Selenium

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