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Quick Test Professional Questions & Answers Part 2 2007-08-02 13:03:00 11.Keyword view in QTP is also termed as
Icon based view
12.What is the use of data table in QTP?
parameterizing the test
13.What is the use of working with actions?
To design a modular and efficient tests
14.What is the file extension of the code file and object repository file in QTP?
The extension for code file is .vbs and the extension for object repository is .tsr
15.What are the properties we can use for identifying a browser and page when using descriptive programming?
The name property is used to identify the browser and the title property is used to identify the page
16.What are the different scripting languages we can use when working with QTP?
VB script
17.Give the example where we can use a COM interface in our QTP project?
COM interface appears in the scenario of front end and back end.
18.Explain the keyword createobject with example
createobject is used to create and return a reference to an automation object.
For example:
Dim ExcelSheetSet
ExcelSheet=createobject(“Exc Read more:Quick
Quick Test Professional Question & Answers Part 1 2007-08-02 12:58:06 1.What is Quick
test pro?
Its a Mercury interactive’s keyword driven testing tool
2.By using QTP what kind of applications we can test?
By using QTP we can test standard windows applications,Web objects,ActiveX controls,and Visual basic applications.
3.What is called as test?
Test is a collection of steps organized into one or more actions,which are used to verify that your application performs as expected
4.What is the meaning of business component?
Its a collections of steps representing a single task in your application. Business components are combined into specific scenario to build business process tests in Mercury Quality center with Business process testing
5.How the test will be created in QTP?
As we navigate through our application,QTP records each step we perform and generates a test or component that graphically displays theses steps in an table-based keyword view.
6.What are all the main tasks which will be accomplished by the QTP after creating a test?
After we hav Read more:Question
Interview question 11: Which version of QTP has support for FireFox? 2007-07-28 01:24:00 The browser compatibility testing across the whole spectrum of possibilities is very important for success of web based application delivery. In the current time QTP has no support for Firefox browser, but if you really need to do testing under this browser take a look into silktest Perhaps in the near future Mercury will deliverer to QA community additional support for many different browsers including the browser you mentioned above.
Read more:version
Interview question 10: How to automate testing of Adobe Flex applications? 2007-07-26 12:28:00 Adobe Flex automation package includes support for with HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.1 tool. Flex plug-in for QTP allows recording, play back interactions with Flex applications and setting check points to verify the application state. QA Engineer should remind to Flex developer, that there are popular techniques that developer can utilize to construct Flex applications as test friendly as possible. One of the most important errands that developer can complete is to make sure that objects are identifiable in the HP QTP testing tool’s scripts. This means that developer should set the value of the id property for all controls that are tested, and ensure that you use a meaningful string for that id property. If QA Engineer can use unique IDs for each control, the HP QuickTest Pro testing scripts are more readable, executable and maintenance is easy
Read more:Adobe
SilkTest Question 61: How can I execute the same test case multiple times? 2007-07-26 12:04:00 The solution is easy as usual with 4test: create a main() function and place a nice loop within it. The working 4test example below calls a straightforward test within a loop within the main function.
[-] testcase Winrunner() appstate none [ ] Print (”HP WinRunner license and maintenance codes are available from HP web site”)[-] main() [ ] int jCount = 100 [ ] int j [-] for (j=1;j [ ] Winrunner()
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Load Testing interview questions 2007-07-22 14:32:51 1.What criteria would you use to select Web transactions for load testing?
2.For what purpose are virtual users created?
3.Why it is recommended to add verification checks to your all your scenarios?
4.In what situation would you want to parameterize a text verification check?
5.Why do you need to parameterize fields in your virtual user script?
6.What are the reasons why parameterization is necessary when load testing the Web server and the database server?
7.How can data caching have a negative effect on load testing results?
8.What usually indicates that your virtual user script has dynamic data that is dependent on you parameterized fields?
9.What are the benefits of creating multiple actions within any virtual user script?
10. What is a Load Test Results Summary Report?
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WinRunner interview questions 2007-07-22 14:29:12 1. Give one line answer about WinRunner?
2. How do you define WinRunner on your own?
3. WinRunner is suitable for which type of applications?
4. What are all the types of applications WinRunner can use?
5. What’s the WinRunner version number you used for your applications?
6. What are all the different types of recordings available in WinRunner?
7. When do you go for Context Sensitive and Analog recordings? What’s the difference between them?
8. What are all the Limitations & Advantages of WinRunner?
9. Where you find that you can’t use WinRunner for automation?
10. What’s the types application you working on using WinRunner?
11. What’s your comfort level in using WinRunner?
12. What is meant by Synchronization? How do you implement it in WinRunner?
13. What is meant by Check points? Types of Check points? In what situation will you use it?
14. What are all the different platforms that WinRunner can be used?
15. Any knowledge of Test Director?
16. Diff Read more:interview
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Test Automation job interview questions 2007-07-22 14:26:59 1. What automating testing tools are you familiar with?
2. How did you use automating testing tools in your job?
3. Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool.
4. How do you plan test automation?
5. Can test automation improve test effectiveness?
6. What is data - driven automation?
7. What are the main attributes of test automation?
8. Does automation replace manual testing?
9. How will you choose a tool for test automation?
10. How you will evaluate the tool for test automation?
11. What are main benefits of test automation?
12. What could go wrong with test automation?
13. How you will describe testing activities?
14. What testing activities you may want to automate?
15. Describe common problems of test automation.
16. What types of scripting techniques for test automation do you know?
17. What are principles of good testing scripts for automation?
18. What tools are available for support of testing during software development life cycle?
19. Can the activities Read more:interview
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Testing Tools Interview Questions 2007-07-16 13:28:34 1. What is software quality assurance?
2. What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?
3. What is the role of the test group vis-à-vis documentation, tech support, and so forth?
4. How much interaction with users should testers have, and why?
5. How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you
learn from those problems?
6. What are the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?
7. What issues come up in test automation, and how do you manage them?
8. What development model should programmers and the test group use?
9. How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code?
10. What is the role of a bug tracking system?
11. What are the key challenges of testing?
12. Have you ever completely tested any part of a product? How?
13. Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing?
14. Should every business test its software the same way?
15. Discuss the economics of automation and the rol Read more:Testing
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What’s the difference between load and stress testing? 2007-08-09 05:37:16 Boris Beizer says:
One of the most common, but unfortunate misuse of terminology is treating “load testing” and “stress
testing” as synonymous. The consequence of this ignorant semantic abuse is usually that the system is neither properly “load tested” nor subjected to a meaningful stress test.
1. Stress testing is subjecting a system to an unreasonable load while denying it the resources (e.g., RAM, disc, mips, interrupts,etc.) needed to process that load. The idea is to stress a system to the breaking point in order to find bugs that will make that break potentially harmful. The system is not expected to process the overload without adequate resources, but to behave (e.g., fail) in a decent manner (e.g., not corrupting or losing data). Bugs and failure modes discovered under stress testing may or may not be repaired depending on the application, the failure mode, consequences, etc. The load (incoming transaction stream) in stress testing is Read more:difference
Software Testing Glossary-I 2007-08-10 09:41:59 1 acceptance testing: Formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer, or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component.
2 actual outcome: The behavior actually produced when the object is tested under specified conditions.
3 ad hoc testing: Testing
carried out using no recognised test case design technique.
4 alpha testing: Simulated or actual operational testing at an in-house site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
5 arc testing: See branch testing.
6 Backus-Naur form: A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language.
7 basic block: A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches.
8 basis test set: A set of test cases derived from the code logic which ensure that 100 % branch coverage is achieved.
9 bebugging:
11 beta testing: Operational testing at a site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
10 behaviour: The combination of input values and preconditions Read more:Software
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Metrics in Software Testing 2007-08-10 09:27:18 1) Schedule variance = (Actual time taken - Planned time) / Planned time * 100
2) Effort variance = (Actual effort - Planned Effort)/Planned effort * 100
3) Defect unearthing efficiency = 100 * STRs found in pass 1/ ( STRs found in pass 1 + STRs found in pass 2 but existing in pass 1) = Defect unearthing efficiency for pass 1.
Thus defect unearthing efficiency can be found for all passes.
Also defect unearthing efficiency in terms of field STRs could be found as follows:
= 100 * Total STRs found in Polaris for a release/ (Total STRs found in Polaris for a release + Field STRs for that release)
4) Test case efficiency = (Total STRs - STRs not mapped)/Total STRs * 100
5) Test case coverage = (Total Test cases - STRs that cannot be mapped to test cases)/ Total Test Cases * 100
PRODUCTIVITY METRICS
1. OUTPUT / INPUT OR VALUE OF MATERIAL / COST OF PRODUCTION
Eg: Non Commented Software
Source (NCSS) Per Engineer Per Month
NCSS per Person Month
NCSS per Function Point
NCSS can also be r Read more:Testing
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Software Testing Related Questions and Answers 2007-08-17 15:03:12 1. What makes a good test engineer?
• A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail.
• Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both technical (developers) and non-technical (customers, management) people is useful.
• Previous software development experience can be helpful as it provides a deeper understanding of the software development process, gives the tester an appreciation for the developers’ point of view, and reduce the learning curve in automated test tool programming.
• Judgement skills are needed to assess high-risk areas of an application on which to focus testing efforts when time is limited.
2. What makes a good software QA engineer?
• The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer.
• Additionally, they must be able to unders Read more:Software
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Test Plan Frequently Asked Questions 2007-08-23 04:35:06 1. Why you cannot download a Word version of this test plan.
I have received numerous requests for an MS Word version of the test plan.
However, although the web pages were created directly from an word document, I no longer have a copy of that original word document.
Also, having prepared numerous test plans, I know that the content is more important than the format. See the next point for more info on the content of a test plan.
2. What a test plan should contain
A software project test plan is a document that describes the objectives, scope, approach, and focus of a software testing effort. The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software product. The completed document will help people outside the test group understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of product validation. It should be thorough enough to be useful but not so thorough that no one outside the test group will read it.
A
Software Testing Related Questions and Answers 2007-08-17 15:03:12 1. What makes a good test engineer?
• A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail.
• Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both technical (developers) and non-technical (customers, management) people is useful.
• Previous software development experience can be helpful as it provides a deeper understanding of the software development process, gives the tester an appreciation for the developers’ point of view, and reduce the learning curve in automated test tool programming.
• Judgement skills are needed to assess high-risk areas of an application on which to focus testing efforts when time is limited.
2. What makes a good software QA engineer?
• The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer.
• Additionally, they must be able to unders Read more:Software
, Testing
, Software Testing
Software Testing Glossary-I 2007-08-10 09:41:59 1 acceptance testing: Formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer, or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component.
2 actual outcome: The behavior actually produced when the object is tested under specified conditions.
3 ad hoc testing: Testing
carried out using no recognised test case design technique.
4 alpha testing: Simulated or actual operational testing at an in-house site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
5 arc testing: See branch testing.
6 Backus-Naur form: A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language.
7 basic block: A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches.
8 basis test set: A set of test cases derived from the code logic which ensure that 100 % branch coverage is achieved.
9 bebugging:
11 beta testing: Operational testing at a site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
10 behaviour: The combination of input values and preconditions Read more:Software
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Metrics in Software Testing 2007-08-10 09:27:18 1) Schedule variance = (Actual time taken - Planned time) / Planned time * 100
2) Effort variance = (Actual effort - Planned Effort)/Planned effort * 100
3) Defect unearthing efficiency = 100 * STRs found in pass 1/ ( STRs found in pass 1 + STRs found in pass 2 but existing in pass 1) = Defect unearthing efficiency for pass 1.
Thus defect unearthing efficiency can be found for all passes.
Also defect unearthing efficiency in terms of field STRs could be found as follows:
= 100 * Total STRs found in Polaris for a release/ (Total STRs found in Polaris for a release + Field STRs for that release)
4) Test case efficiency = (Total STRs - STRs not mapped)/Total STRs * 100
5) Test case coverage = (Total Test cases - STRs that cannot be mapped to test cases)/ Total Test Cases * 100
PRODUCTIVITY METRICS
1. OUTPUT / INPUT OR VALUE OF MATERIAL / COST OF PRODUCTION
Eg: Non Commented Software
Source (NCSS) Per Engineer Per Month
NCSS per Person Month
NCSS per Function Point
NCSS can also be r Read more:Testing
, Software Testing
, Metrics
What’s the difference between load and stress testing? 2007-08-09 05:37:16 Boris Beizer says:
One of the most common, but unfortunate misuse of terminology is treating “load testing” and “stress
testing” as synonymous. The consequence of this ignorant semantic abuse is usually that the system is neither properly “load tested” nor subjected to a meaningful stress test.
1. Stress testing is subjecting a system to an unreasonable load while denying it the resources (e.g., RAM, disc, mips, interrupts,etc.) needed to process that load. The idea is to stress a system to the breaking point in order to find bugs that will make that break potentially harmful. The system is not expected to process the overload without adequate resources, but to behave (e.g., fail) in a decent manner (e.g., not corrupting or losing data). Bugs and failure modes discovered under stress testing may or may not be repaired depending on the application, the failure mode, consequences, etc. The load (incoming transaction stream) in stress testing is Read more:difference
Quick Test Professional Questions & Answers Part 2 2007-08-02 13:03:00 11.Keyword view in QTP is also termed as
Icon based view
12.What is the use of data table in QTP?
parameterizing the test
13.What is the use of working with actions?
To design a modular and efficient tests
14.What is the file extension of the code file and object repository file in QTP?
The extension for code file is .vbs and the extension for object repository is .tsr
15.What are the properties we can use for identifying a browser and page when using descriptive programming?
The name property is used to identify the browser and the title property is used to identify the page
16.What are the different scripting languages we can use when working with QTP?
VB script
17.Give the example where we can use a COM interface in our QTP project?
COM interface appears in the scenario of front end and back end.
18.Explain the keyword createobject with example
createobject is used to create and return a reference to an automation object.
For example:
Dim ExcelSheetSet
ExcelSheet=createobject(“Exc Read more:Quick
Quick Test Professional Question & Answers Part 1 2007-08-02 12:58:06 1.What is Quick
test pro?
Its a Mercury interactive’s keyword driven testing tool
2.By using QTP what kind of applications we can test?
By using QTP we can test standard windows applications,Web objects,ActiveX controls,and Visual basic applications.
3.What is called as test?
Test is a collection of steps organized into one or more actions,which are used to verify that your application performs as expected
4.What is the meaning of business component?
Its a collections of steps representing a single task in your application. Business components are combined into specific scenario to build business process tests in Mercury Quality center with Business process testing
5.How the test will be created in QTP?
As we navigate through our application,QTP records each step we perform and generates a test or component that graphically displays theses steps in an table-based keyword view.
6.What are all the main tasks which will be accomplished by the QTP after creating a test?
After we hav Read more:Question
Interview question 11: Which version of QTP has support for FireFox? 2007-07-28 01:24:00 The browser compatibility testing across the whole spectrum of possibilities is very important for success of web based application delivery. In the current time QTP has no support for Firefox browser, but if you really need to do testing under this browser take a look into silktest Perhaps in the near future Mercury will deliverer to QA community additional support for many different browsers including the browser you mentioned above.
Read more:version
Interview question 10: How to automate testing of Adobe Flex applications? 2007-07-26 12:28:00 Adobe Flex automation package includes support for with HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.1 tool. Flex plug-in for QTP allows recording, play back interactions with Flex applications and setting check points to verify the application state. QA Engineer should remind to Flex developer, that there are popular techniques that developer can utilize to construct Flex applications as test friendly as possible. One of the most important errands that developer can complete is to make sure that objects are identifiable in the HP QTP testing tool’s scripts. This means that developer should set the value of the id property for all controls that are tested, and ensure that you use a meaningful string for that id property. If QA Engineer can use unique IDs for each control, the HP QuickTest Pro testing scripts are more readable, executable and maintenance is easy
Read more:Adobe
Manual Testing Interview Questions-2 2007-08-28 09:59:52 How is testing affected by object-oriented designs?
Well-engineered object-oriented design can make it easier to trace from code to internal design to functional design to requirements. While there will be little affect on black box testing (where an understanding of the internal design of the application is unnecessary), white-box testing can be oriented to the application’s objects. If the application was well-designed this can simplify test design.
What is Extreme Programming and what’s it got to do with testing?
Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development approach for small teams on risk-prone projects with unstable requirements. It was created by Kent Beck who described the approach in his book ‘Extreme Programming Explained’ (See the Softwareqatest.com Books page.). Testing
(’extreme testing’) is a core aspect of Extreme Programming. Programmers are expected to write unit and functional test code first - before the application is develop
Manual Testing Interview Questions-1 2007-08-28 09:12:45 What makes a good test engineer?
A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail. Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both technical (developers) and non-technical (customers, management) people is useful. Previous software development experience can be helpful as it provides a deeper understanding of the software development process, gives the tester an appreciation for the developers’ point of view, and reduce the learning curve in automated test tool programming. Judgement skills are needed to assess high-risk areas of an application on which to focus testing efforts when time is limited.
What makes a good Software QA engineer?
The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer. Additionally, they must be able to understand the entire software develop Read more:Testing
Test Plan Frequently Asked Questions 2007-08-23 04:35:06 1. Why you cannot download a Word version of this test plan.
I have received numerous requests for an MS Word version of the test plan.
However, although the web pages were created directly from an word document, I no longer have a copy of that original word document.
Also, having prepared numerous test plans, I know that the content is more important than the format. See the next point for more info on the content of a test plan.
2. What a test plan should contain
A software project test plan is a document that describes the objectives, scope, approach, and focus of a software testing effort. The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software product. The completed document will help people outside the test group understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of product validation. It should be thorough enough to be useful but not so thorough that no one outside the test group will read it.
A
Software Testing Related Questions and Answers 2007-08-17 15:03:12 1. What makes a good test engineer?
• A good test engineer has a ‘test to break’ attitude, an ability to take the point of view of the customer, a strong desire for quality, and an attention to detail.
• Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers, and an ability to communicate with both technical (developers) and non-technical (customers, management) people is useful.
• Previous software development experience can be helpful as it provides a deeper understanding of the software development process, gives the tester an appreciation for the developers’ point of view, and reduce the learning curve in automated test tool programming.
• Judgement skills are needed to assess high-risk areas of an application on which to focus testing efforts when time is limited.
2. What makes a good software QA engineer?
• The same qualities a good tester has are useful for a QA engineer.
• Additionally, they must be able to unders Read more:Testing
, Software
, Software Testing
Software Testing Glossary-I 2007-08-10 09:41:59 1 acceptance testing: Formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer, or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component.
2 actual outcome: The behavior actually produced when the object is tested under specified conditions.
3 ad hoc testing: Testing
carried out using no recognised test case design technique.
4 alpha testing: Simulated or actual operational testing at an in-house site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
5 arc testing: See branch testing.
6 Backus-Naur form: A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language.
7 basic block: A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches.
8 basis test set: A set of test cases derived from the code logic which ensure that 100 % branch coverage is achieved.
9 bebugging:
11 beta testing: Operational testing at a site not otherwise involved with the software developers.
10 behaviour: The combination of input values and preconditions Read more:Software
, Software Testing
, Glossary
Metrics in Software Testing 2007-08-10 09:27:18 1) Schedule variance = (Actual time taken - Planned time) / Planned time * 100
2) Effort variance = (Actual effort - Planned Effort)/Planned effort * 100
3) Defect unearthing efficiency = 100 * STRs found in pass 1/ ( STRs found in pass 1 + STRs found in pass 2 but existing in pass 1) = Defect unearthing efficiency for pass 1.
Thus defect unearthing efficiency can be found for all passes.
Also defect unearthing efficiency in terms of field STRs could be found as follows:
= 100 * Total STRs found in Polaris for a release/ (Total STRs found in Polaris for a release + Field STRs for that release)
4) Test case efficiency = (Total STRs - STRs not mapped)/Total STRs * 100
5) Test case coverage = (Total Test cases - STRs that cannot be mapped to test cases)/ Total Test Cases * 100
PRODUCTIVITY METRICS
1. OUTPUT / INPUT OR VALUE OF MATERIAL / COST OF PRODUCTION
Eg: Non Commented Software
Source (NCSS) Per Engineer Per Month
NCSS per Person Month
NCSS per Function Point
NCSS can also be r Read more:Testing
, Software Testing
, Metrics
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