QA Testing Questions

Verification: Verification is a process to ensure that the software that is made, matches the original design. In other words, it checks whether the software is made according to the criteria and specification described in the requirement document. It is to check whether you built the product right as per design. It is a low level checking. (It is done in walk-through meetings generally). It checked whether it is made accordingly to the design..

Validation: Validation is a process to check whether the product design fits the client’s need. It checks whether you built the right thing. It checks whether it is designed properly.

TDD is an acronym for Test-Driven Development. TDD is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test.

TDD is an iterative software development process where you first write the test with the idea that it must fail.

This is a different approach to the traditional development where you write the application functionality first andthen write test cases. The major benefit of this approach is that the code becomes thoroughly unit tested (you canuse JUnit or other unit testing frameworks).

Use Case: A use case is a description of the process which is performed by the end user for a particular task. Use case contains a sequence of step which is performed by the end user to complete a specific task or a step by step process that describe how the application and end user interact with each other. Use case is written by the user point of view.

Use case Testing: the use case testing uses this use case to evaluate the application. So that, the tester can examines all the functionalities of the application. Use case testing cover whole application, tester performs this testing in step by step process to complete one task

The benefits of Automation Testing are below:

- Test engineer productivity.

- Coverage of regression testing.

- Reusability of test cases.

- Consistency in testing.

- Test interval reduction

- Reduced software maintenance cost

- Increased test effectiveness

Use case is nothing but the functional specification document in which all the customer requirements are documented.

Test case is a document which tells wat to test, steps to test and expected and actual results.

Monkey testing is a type of Black Box Testing used mostly at the Unit Level. In this tester enter the data in any format and check the software is not crashing. In this testing we use Smart monkey and Dumb monkey.

- Smart monkeys are used for load and stress testing, they will help in finding the bugs. They are very expensive to develop.

- Dumb monkey, they are important for basic testing. They help in finding those bugs which are having high severity. Dumb monkey are less expensive as compare to Smart monkeys.

Example: In phone number filed Symbols are entered.

The main attributes are discussed below:

Maintainability: For each new release need to update the test automation suites.

Reliability: Accuracy and repeatability of the test automation.

Flexibility: Ease of working with all the different kinds of automation test ware. 

Efficiency: Total cost related to the effort needed for the automation.

Portability: Ability of the automated test to run on different environments.

Robustness: Effectiveness of automation on an unstable or rapidly changing system. 

Usability: Extent to which automation can be used by different types of user.

Basically Load, Stress and Performance Testing are the same. However, Load testing is the test to check the users’ response time of number of users of any one scenario of the application whereas Performance Testing is the test to check the user response time for multiple scenario of the same application.