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We have compiled list of top 80+ manual testing interview
questions for your reference. Most of these are practical questions
asked in software testing interview. You can go over one by one
question and see the answers. If you prepare for these questions it
wont be difficult for you to crack the testing interview quickly.
Lets start with the Manual Testing

Interview Questions:
Que 1 What is Component Testing?

Ans -Testing of individual software components (Unit Testing).
Que 2- Whats Compatibility Testing meaning by?
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Ans In Compatibility testing we can test that software is compatible with other elements of system.
Que 3 What is Data Driven Testing?
Ans -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.
Que 4 What is the difference between Positive and Negative Testing?
Ans -Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as test to pass is Positive Testing. Testing aimed at
showing software does not work. Also known as test to fail is Negative Testing
Que 5 - What is fault?
Ans -A fault is condition that causes system to fail in performing the required function.
Que 6 What is Performance Testing and Load Testing?
Ans -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 known as Load Testing.
Ques 7 What is the Re-testing?
Ans - Retesting- Again testing the functionality of the application.
Que 8 What is the importance of Regression testing?
Ans Regression- Check that change in code have not effected the working functionality
Que 9 Why Agile Testing is important?
Ans 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.
Que 10 What is Basis Path Testing?
Ans- A white box test case design technique that uses the algorithmic flow of the program to design tests.
Que 11 What skills needed to be a good test automator?
Ans Good Logic for programming, Analytical skills, Pessimestic in Nature.
Que 12 Why does software have bugs ?
Ans 1.miscommunication
2.programming errors
3.time pressures.
4.changing requirements
5.software complexity
Que 13 How does Bug affect the computer program?
Ans - A fault in a program which causes perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner.
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Que 14 What is Defect?

Ans - If software misses some feature or function from what is there in requirement it is called as defect.
Que 15 What is the full name of CAST?
Ans - Computer Aided Software Testing.
Que 16 What is Capture/Replay Tool?
Ans 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.
Que 17- What is the importance of CMM?
Ans -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.
Que 18 What is Code Inspection?
Ans - 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.
Que 19 What is Code Walkthrough?
Ans- 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 programmers logic and assumptions.
Que 20 - What is Coding?
Ans- It is the generation of source code.
Que 21 - What is Data Dictionary?
Ans A database that contains definitions of all data items defined during analysis.
Que 22 - What is Data Flow Diagram?
Ans - It is modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system.
Que 23 - What are main benefits of test automation?
Ans Its fast, reliable, comprehensive and reusable.
Que 24 What is Gorilla Testing?
Ans - It is a Testing one particular module, functionality heavily.
Que 25 - What is Gray Box Testing?
Ans 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.
Que 26 - What is High Order Tests?
Ans Black-box tests conducted once the software has been integrated.
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Que 27 - What is Independent Test Group (ITG)?

Ans A group of people whose primary responsibility is software testing,
Que 28 What is Boundary Value Analysis?
Ans 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.
Ques 29 - What is Code Complete?
Ans Phase of development where functionality is implemented in entirety bug fixes all that left. All functions found in
the Functional Specifications have been implemented.
Que 30 What is Code Coverage?
Ans 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.
Que 31 What is Cyclomtic Complexity?
Ans It is a measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box testing.
Que 32 What is Quality Assurance?
Ans 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.
Que 33-What is Quality Audit?
Ans 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.
Que34 What is Ramp Testing?
Ans Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
Que 35 What does Recovery Testing mean by?
Ans - It Confirms that the program recover 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.
Que 36 What is Regression Testing?
Ans - Retesting is a previously tested program following modification to ensure that faults have not been introduced or
uncovered as a result of the changes made
Que 37 - What is Security Testing?
Ans 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.
Que 38 What is Smoke Testing?
Ans Smoke Testing is 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 considered it a success if it does
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not catch on fire.

Que 39 What is Static Analysis?
Ans- Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
Que 40 What is the main work of Static Analysis?
Ans It is basically tool that carries out static analysis.
Que 41 What is Static Testing?
Ans Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program
Ques 42 -What is Test Bed?
Ans - An execution environment configured for testing.It 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
enumerate the test beds(s) to be used.
Que 43 What is Test Case?
Ans - 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.
Que 44 What is Load Testing?
Ans See Performance Testing.
Que 45 What is Localization Testing?
Ans - This term refers to making software specifically designed for a specific locality.
Que 46 What is the meaning of Glass Box Testing?
Ans - It is a synonym for White Box Testing.
Que 47 What is Functional Testing?
Ans - 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 focused solely on the outputs generated in response
to selected inputs and execution conditions or Black Box Testing.
Que 48 What is Inspection?
Ans- 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).
Que 49 What is Quality Circle?
Ans - 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.
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Que 50 What is Quality Control?

Ans The operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify requirements of quality.
Que 51 What is Release Candidate?
Ans - 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).
Que 52 What is Scalability Testing?
Ans - Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test gracefully handles increases in work load.
Que 53 What is Software Requirements Specification?
Ans A deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints, and all validation
requirements for software/
Que 54 What is Storage Testing?
Ans - 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.
Que 55 What is Equivalence Partitioning?
Ans- A test case design technique for a component in which test cases are designed to execute representatives from
equivalence classes.
Que 56 What is Exhaustive Testing?
Ans- Testing which covers all combinations of input values and preconditions for an element of the software under test.
Que 57 What is Equivalence Class?
Ans- A portion of a components input or output domains for which the components behavior is assumed to be the
same from the components specification.
Que 58 What is Functional Decomposition?
Ans - A technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional hierarchy for the software.
Que 59 What is Functional Specification?
Ans IT is a document that describes in detail the characteristics of the product with regard to its intended features.
Que 60 What is Conversion Testing?
Ans -Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing systems for use in replacement systems.
Que 61 - What could go wrong with test automation?
Ans Choice of automation tool and the set of test cases
Que 62 What is Debugging?
Ans - It is the process of finding and removing the causes of software failures.
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Que 63 What is Component?

Ans- A minimal software item for which a separate specification is available.
Que 64 What are different names for Unit Testing?
Ans Component testing, program testing, Module testing
Que 65 What is CMM?
Ans -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.
Que 66 What is Cause Effect Graph?
Ans A graphical representation of inputs and the associated outputs effects which can be used to design test cases.
Que 67 What is Boundary Testing?
Ans -Test which focus on the boundary or limit conditions of the software being tested. (Some of these tests are stress
tests).
Que 68 What is Bug?
Ans A fault in a program which causes it to perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner.
Que 69 -What is Beta Testing?
Ans -Testing of a release of a software product conducted by customers.
Que 70 - What is Binary Portability Testing?
Ans -Testing an executable application for portability across system platforms and environments, usually for
conformation to an ABI specification.
Que 71 -What is Black Box Testing?
Ans 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
Que 72- What is Basis Set?
Ans -The set of tests derived using basis path testing.
Que 73 What is Baseline?
Ans The point at which some deliverable produced during the software engineering process is put under formal
change control.
Que 74 What is Endurance Testing?
Ans Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with prolonged execution.
Que 75 What is Metric?
Ans 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.
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Que 76 What is Quality Policy?

Ans - The overall intentions and directions of an organization as regards quality as formally expressed by top
management.
Que 78 What is Stress Testing?
Ans -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.
Que 79 What is Monkey Testing?
Ans -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.
Que 80 What is Concurrency Testing?
Ans 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
Que 81 What is Backus-Naur Form?
Ans A meta language used to formally describe the syntax of a language.
Que 82 What is Basic Block?
Ans A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches.
Que 83 What is Sanity Testing?
Ans Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to determine if its basically operational.
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