1) What is Bug?
A
fault in a program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or
unanticipated manner.
2) What is Test Tools?
Computer
programs used in the testing of a system, a component of the system, or its
documentation.
3) What is Debugging?
The
process of finding and removing the causes of software failures.
4) What is Defect?
Nonconformance
to requirements or functional / program specification
5) 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.
6) What is Software
Testing?
A
set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in
software.
7) What is Coding?
The
generation of source code.
8) What is Component?
A
minimal software item for which a separate specification is available.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) What is Test Driver?
A
program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test
Harness.
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) What is a "Good
Tester"?
What
is ISO 9003? Why is it important
16) What is Test Harness?
A
program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test
Driver.
17) 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. Ref IEEE Std 829.
18) What is Test
Procedure?
A
document providing detailed instructions for the execution of one or more
test cases.
19) 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.
20) 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.
21) 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.
22) What is CAST?
Computer
Aided Software Testing.
23) What is Conversion
Testing?
Testing
of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing systems for use
in replacement systems.
24) What is Cyclomatic
Complexity?
A
measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box
testing.
25) What is Data
Dictionary?
A
database that contains definitions of all data items defined during
analysis.
26) What is Data Flow Diagram?
A modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of
a system.
27) What is Data Driven Testing?
Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by
externally defined data values, maintained as a file or spreadsheet. A common
technique in Automated Testing.
28) What is Dependency Testing?
Examines an application s requirements for pre-existing software,
initial states and configuration in order to maintain proper
functionality.
29) What is Depth Testing?
A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
30) What is Dynamic Testing?
Testing software through executing it. See also Static
Testing.
31) What is Emulator?
A device, computer program, or system that accepts the same inputs
and produces the same outputs as a given system.
32) What is Endurance Testing?
Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with
prolonged execution.
33) What is End-to-End testing?
Testing a complete application environment in a situation that
mimics real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using
network communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications,
or systems if appropriate.
34) What is Equivalence Class?
A portion of a component s input or output domains for which the
component s behaviour is assumed to be the same from the component s
specification.
35) What is Equivalence Partitioning?
A test case design technique for a component in which test cases
are designed to execute representatives from equivalence classes.
36) What is Exhaustive Testing?
Testing which covers all combinations of input values and
preconditions for an element of the Software under test.
37) What is Functional Decomposition?
A technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a
functional hierarchy for the software.
38) What is Functional Specification?
A document that describes in detail the characteristics of the
product with regard to its intended features.
39) What is Functional Testing?
Testing the features and operational behavior of a product to
ensure they correspond to its specifications.
Testing that ignores the internal mechanism of a system or
component and focuses solely on the outputs generated in response to selected
inputs and execution conditions.
See also What is Black Box Testing.
40) What is Glass Box Testing?
A synonym for White Box Testing.
41) What is Acceptance Testing?
Testing conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether
to accept a software product. Normally performed to validate
the Software meets a set of agreed acceptance criteria.
42) What is Accessibility Testing?
Verifying a product is accessible to the people having
disabilities (deaf, blind, mentally disabled etc.).
43) What is Ad Hoc Testing?
A testing phase where the tester tries to break the
system by randomly trying the system s functionality. Can include negative
testing as well. See also Monkey Testing.
44) What is Agile Testing?
Testing practice for projects using agile methodologies, treating
development as the customer of testing and emphasizing a test-first design paradigm.
See also Test Driven Development.
45) What is Application
Binary Interface (ABI)?
A specification defining requirements for portability of
applications in binary forms across defferent system platforms and
environments.
46) What is Application Programming Interface
(API)?
A formalized set of software calls and routines that can be
referenced by an application program in order to access supporting system or
network services.
47) What is Automated Software Quality
(ASQ)?
The use of software tools, such as automated testing tools, to
improve software quality.
48) What is Automated Testing?
Testing employing software tools which execute tests without
manual intervention. Can be applied in GUI, performance, API, etc.
testing.
The use of software to control the execution of tests, the
comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test
preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions.
49) What is Backus-Naur Form?
A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a
language.
50) What is Basic Block?
A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements
containing no branches.
51) What is Basis Path
Testing?
A
white box test case design technique that uses the algorithmic flow of the
program to design tests.
52) What is Basis Set?
The
set of tests derived using basis path testing.
53) What is Baseline?
The
point at which some deliverable produced during the software engineering
process is put under formal change control.
54) What is Beta Testing?
Testing
of a rerelease of a software product conducted by customers.
55) What is Binary Portability
Testing?
Testing
an executable application for portability across system platforms and
environments, usually for conformation to an ABI specification.
56) What is Black Box
Testing?
Testing
based on an analysis of the specification of a piece of software without
reference to its internal workings. The goal is to test how well the
component conforms to the published requirements for the component.
57) What is Bottom Up
Testing?
An
approach to integration testing where the lowest level components are tested
first, then used to facilitate the testing of higher level components. The
process is repeated until the component at the top of the hierarchy is
tested.
58) What is Boundary
Testing?
Test
which focus on the boundary or limit conditions of the software being tested.
(Some of these tests are stress tests).
59) What is Boundary Value
Analysis?
BVA
is similar to Equivalence Partitioning but focuses on "corner
cases" or values that are usually out of range as defined by the
specification. his means that if a function expects all values in range of
negative 100 to positive 1000, test inputs would include negative 101 and
positive 1001.
60) What is Branch
Testing?
Testing
in which all branches in the program source code are tested at least
once.
61) What is Breadth
Testing?
A
test suite that exercises the full functionality of a product but does not
test features in detail.
62) What is Capture/Replay
Tool?
A
test tool that records test input as it is sent to the software under test.
The input cases stored can then be used to reproduce the test at a later
time. Most commonly applied to GUI test tools.
63) What is CMM?
The
Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM) is a model for judging
the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying
the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these
processes.
64) What is Cause Effect
Graph?
A
graphical representation of inputs and the associated outputs effects which
can be used to design test cases.
65) What is Code Complete?
Phase
of development where functionality is implemented in entirety; bug fixes are
all that are left. All functions found in the Functional Specifications have
been implemented.
66) What is Code Coverage?
An
analysis method that determines which parts of the software have been
executed (covered) by the test case suite and which parts have not been
executed and therefore may require additional attention.
67) What is Code
Inspection?
A
formal testing technique where the programmer reviews source code with a
group who ask questions analyzing the program logic, analyzing the code with
respect to a checklist of historically common programming errors, and
analyzing its compliance with coding standards.
68) What is Code Walkthrough?
A
formal testing technique where source code is traced by a group with a small
set of test cases, while the state of program variables is manually
monitored, to analyze the programmer s logic and assumptions.
69) What is Compatibility
Testing?
Testing
whether software is compatible with other elements of a system with which it
should operate, e.g. browsers, Operating Systems, or hardware.
70) What is Component
Testing?
See
the question what is Unit Testing.
71) What is Concurrency
Testing?
Multi-user
testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing the same
application code, module or database records. Identifies and measures the level
of locking, deadlocking and use of single-threaded code and locking
semaphores.
72) What is Conformance
Testing?
The
process of testing that an implementation conforms to the specification on
which it is based. Usually applied to testing conformance to a formal
standard.
73) What is Context Driven
Testing?
The
context-driven school of software testing is flavor of Agile Testing that
advocates continuous and creative evaluation of testing opportunities in
light of the potential information revealed and the value of that information
to the organization right now.
74) What is Gorilla
Testing?
Testing
one particular module, functionality heavily.
75) What is Gray Box Testing?
A
combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies? testing a piece
of software against its specification but using some knowledge of its
internal workings.
76) What is High Order
Tests?
Black-box
tests conducted once the software has been integrated.
77) What is Independent Test
Group (ITG)?
A
group of people whose primary responsibility is software testing,
78) What is Inspection?
A
group review quality improvement process for written material. It consists of
two aspects; product (document itself) improvement and process improvement
(of both document production and inspection).
79) What is Integration
Testing?
Testing
of combined parts of an application to determine if they function together
correctly. Usually performed after unit and functional testing. This type of
testing is especially relevant to client/server and distributed
systems.
80)What is Installation
Testing?
Confirms
that the application under test recovers from expected or unexpected events
without loss of data or functionality. Events can include shortage of disk
space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out conditions.
81) What is Load Testing?
See
Performance Testing.
82) What is Localization
Testing?
This
term refers to making software specifically designed for a specific
locality.
83) What is Loop
Testing?
A
white box testing technique that exercises program loops.
84) What is Metric?
A
standard of measurement. Software metrics are the statistics describing the
structure or content of a program. A metric should be a real objective
measurement of something such as number of bugs per lines of code.
85) What is Monkey
Testing?
Testing
a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here and there to
ensure the system or an application does not crash out.
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86) What is Negative
Testing?
Testing
aimed at showing software does not work. Also known as "test to
fail". See also Positive Testing.
87) What is Path Testing?
Testing
in which all paths in the program source code are tested at least once.
88) What is Performance
Testing?
Testing
conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with specified
performance requirements. Often this is performed using an automated test
tool to simulate large number of users. Also know as "Load
Testing".
89) What is Positive
Testing?
Testing
aimed at showing software works. Also known as "test to pass". See
also Negative Testing.
90) What is 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.
91) What is Quality Audit?
A
systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality
activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether
these arrangements are implemented effectively and are suitable to achieve
objectives.
92) What is Quality
Circle?
A
group of individuals with related interests that meet at regular intervals to
consider problems or other matters related to the quality of outputs of a
process and to the correction of problems or to the improvement of quality.
93) What is Quality
Control?
The
operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify
requirements of quality.
94) What is Quality
Management?
That
aspect of the overall management function that determines and implements the
quality policy.
95) What is Quality
Policy?
The
overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality as
formally expressed by top management.
96) What is Quality
System?
The
organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and
resources for implementing quality management.
97) What is Race
Condition?
A
cause of concurrency problems. Multiple accesses to a shared resource, at
least one of which is a write, with no mechanism used by either to moderate
simultaneous access.
98) What is Ramp Testing?
Continuously
raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
99) What is Recovery
Testing?
Confirms
that the program recovers from expected or unexpected events without loss of
data or functionality. Events can include shortage of disk space, unexpected
loss of communication, or power out conditions.
100) What is Regression
Testing?
Retesting
a previously tested program following modification to ensure that faults have
not been introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes made.
101) What is Release
Candidate?
A
pre-release version, which contains the desired functionality of the final
version, but which needs to be tested for bugs (which ideally should be
removed before the final version is released).
102) What is Sanity
Testing?
Brief
test of major functional elements of a piece of software to determine if its
basically operational. See also Smoke Testing.
103) What is Scalability
Testing?
Performance
testing focused on ensuring the application under test gracefully handles
increases in work load.
104) What is Security
Testing?
Testing
which confirms that the program can restrict access to authorized personnel
and that the authorized personnel can access the functions available to their
security level.
105) What is Smoke
Testing?
A
quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software work.
Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new piece of
hardware for the first time and considering it a success if it does not catch
on fire.
106) What is Soak Testing?
Running
a system at high load for a prolonged period of time. For example, running
several times more transactions in an entire day (or night) than would be
expected in a busy day, to identify and performance problems that appear
after a large number of transactions have been executed.
107) What is Software
Requirements Specification?
A
deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements,
all constraints, and all validation requirements for software
108) What is Static
Analysis?
Analysis
of a program carried out without executing the program.
109) What is Static
Analyzer?
A
tool that carries out static analysis.
110) What is Static
Testing?
Analysis
of a program carried out without executing the program.
111) 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.
112) 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.
113) What is Structural
Testing?
Testing
based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece of
software. See also White Box Testing.
114) What is System
Testing?
Testing
that attempts to discover defects that are properties of the entire system
rather than of its individual components.
115) 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.
116) 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.
117) What is Total Quality
Management?
A
company commitment to develop a process that achieves high quality product
and customer satisfaction.
118) What is Traceability
Matrix?
A
document showing the relationship between Test Requirements and Test
Cases.
119) What is Usability
Testing?
Testing
the ease with which users can learn and use a product.
120) What is Use Case?
The
specification of tests that are conducted from the end-user perspective. Use
cases tend to focus on operating software as an end-user would conduct their
day-to-day activities.
121) What is Unit Testing?
Testing
of individual software components.
122) What is Validation?
The
process of evaluating software at the end of
the software development process to ensure compliance with
software requirements. The techniques for validation is testing, inspection
and reviewing
123) What is Verification?
The
process of determining whether of not the products of a given phase of the
software development cycle meet the implementation steps and can be traced to
the incoming objectives established during the previous phase. The techniques
for verification are testing, inspection and reviewing.
124) What is Volume
Testing?
Testing
which confirms that any values that may become large over time (such as
accumulated counts, logs, and data files), can be accommodated by the program
and will not cause the program to stop working or degrade its operation in
any manner.
125) What is Walkthrough?
A
review of requirements, designs or code characterized by the author of the
material under review guiding the progression of the review.
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What’s Ad Hoc Testing ?
A testing where the tester tries to break the software by
randomly trying functionality of software.
What’s the Accessibility Testing ?
Testing that determines if software will be usable by people
with disabilities.
What’s the Alpha Testing ?
The
Alpha Testing is conducted at the developer sites and in a controlled
environment by the end user of the software
What’s the Beta
Testing ?
Testing the application after the installation at the client
place.
What is Component Testing ?
Testing of individual software components (Unit Testing).
What’s Compatibility Testing ?
In Compatibility testing we can test that software is compatible
with other elements of system.
What is Concurrency Testing ?
Multi-user
testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing the same
application code, module or databaserecords.
Identifies and measures the level of locking, deadlocking and use of single-threaded
code and locking semaphores.
What is Conformance Testing ?
The process of testing that an implementation conforms to the
specification on which it is based. Usually applied to testing conformance to a
formal standard.
What is Context Driven Testing ?
The context-driven school of software testing is flavor of Agile
Testing that advocates continuous and creative evaluation of testing
opportunities in light of the potential information revealed and the value of
that information to the organization right now.
What is Data Driven Testing ?
Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by
externally defined data values, maintained as a file or spreadsheet. A common
technique in Automated Testing.
What is Conversion Testing ?
Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from
existing systems for use in replacement systems.
What is Dependency Testing ?
Examines an application’s requirements for pre-existing
software, initial states and configuration in order to maintain proper
functionality.
What is Depth Testing ?
A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
What is Dynamic Testing ?
Testing software through executing it. See also Static Testing.
What is Endurance Testing ?
Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with
prolonged execution.
What is End-to-End testing ?
Testing
a complete application environment in a situation that mimics real-world use,
such as interacting with a database,
using network communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications,
or systems if appropriate.
What is Exhaustive Testing ?
Testing which covers all combinations of input values and
preconditions for an element of the software under test.
What is Gorilla Testing ?
Testing one particular module, functionality heavily.
What is Installation Testing ?
Confirms that the application under test recovers from expected
or unexpected events without loss of data or functionality. Events can include
shortage of disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out
conditions.
What is Localization Testing ?
This term refers to making software specifically designed for a
specific locality.
What is Loop Testing ?
A white box testing technique that exercises program loops.
What is Mutation Testing ?
Mutation testing is a method for determining if a set of test
data or test cases is useful, by deliberately introducing various code changes
(‘bugs’) and retesting with the original test data/cases to determine if the
‘bugs’ are detected. Proper implementation requires large computational
resources
What is Monkey Testing ?
Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few
tests here and there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.
What is Positive Testing ?
Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as “test to
pass”. See also Negative Testing.
What is Negative Testing ?
Testing aimed at showing software does not work. Also known as
“test to fail”. See also Positive Testing.
What is Path Testing ?
Testing in which all paths in the program source code are tested
at least once.
What is Performance Testing ?
Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or
component with specified performance requirements. Often this is performed
using an automated test tool to simulate large number of users. Also know as
“Load Testing”.
What is Ramp Testing ?
Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks
down.
What is Recovery Testing ?
Confirms that the program recovers from expected or unexpected
events without loss of data or functionality. Events can include shortage of
disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out conditions.
What is the Re-testing testing ?
Retesting- Again testing the functionality of the application.
What is the
Regression testing ?
Regression- Check that change in code have not effected the
working functionality
What is Sanity Testing ?
Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software
to determine if its basically operational.
What is Scalability Testing ?
Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under
test gracefully handles increases in work load.
What is Security Testing ?
Testing which confirms that the program can restrict access to
authorized personnel and that the authorized personnel can access the functions
available to their security level.
What is Stress Testing ?
Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine
the stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal
operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the
results.
What is Smoke Testing ?
A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of
software work. Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new
piece of hardware for the first time and considering it a success if it does
not catch on fire.
What is Soak Testing ?
Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time.
For example, running several times more transactions in an entire day (or
night) than would be expected in a busy day, to identify and performance
problems that appear after a large number of transactions have been executed.
What’s the Usability testing ?
Usability testing is for user friendliness.
What’s the User acceptance testing ?
User acceptance testing is determining if software is
satisfactory to an end-user or customer.
What’s the Volume Testing ?
We can perform the Volume testing, where the system is subjected
to large volume of data.
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