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| About the Book |
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| Organizational Hierarchy |
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| Resume Preparation Guidelines |
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| Salary Negotiation |
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| Interview Rating Sheet |
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| Common Questions Asked During Interviews |
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| How to Read This Book |
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In which software life cycle phase does testing occur? |
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Can you explain the PDCA cycle and where testing fits in? |
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What is the difference between white box, black box, and gray box testing? |
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2 | (1) |
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What is the difference between a defect and a failure? |
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What are the categories of defects? |
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4 | (1) |
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What is the difference between verification and validation? |
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4 | (1) |
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How does testing affect risk? |
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4 | (1) |
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Does an increase in testing always improve the project? |
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5 | (1) |
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How do you define a testing policy? |
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6 | (1) |
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Should testing be done only after the build and execution phases are complete? |
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7 | (2) |
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Are there more defects in the design phase or in the coding phase? |
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9 | (1) |
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What kind of input do we need from the end user to begin proper testing? |
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10 | (1) |
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What is the difference between latent and masked defects? |
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11 | (1) |
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A defect which could have been removed during the intitial stage is removed in a later stage. How does this affect cost? |
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12 | (1) |
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Can you explain the workbench concept? |
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13 | (3) |
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What's the difference between alpha and beta testing? |
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16 | (1) |
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Can you explain the concept of defect cascading? |
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17 | (1) |
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Can you explain how one defect leads to other defects? |
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17 | (1) |
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Can you explain usability testing? |
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18 | (1) |
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What are the different strategies for rollout to end users? |
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18 | (1) |
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Can you explain requirement traceability and its importance? |
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19 | (1) |
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What is the difference between pilot and beta testing? |
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20 | (1) |
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How do you perform a risk analysis during software testing? |
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21 | (1) |
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How do you conclude which section is most risky in your application? |
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21 | (4) |
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What does entry and exit criteria mean in a project? |
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25 | (1) |
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On what basis is the acceptance plan prepared? |
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25 | (1) |
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What's the relationship between environment reality and test phases? |
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26 | (1) |
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What are different types of verifications? |
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27 | (1) |
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What's the difference between inspections and walkthroughs? |
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27 | (1) |
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Can you explain regression testing and confirmation testing? |
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28 | (1) |
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What is coverage and what are the different types of coverage techniques? |
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29 | (1) |
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How does a coverage tool work? |
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29 | (1) |
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What is configuration management? |
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30 | (1) |
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Can you explain Can the baseline concept in software development? |
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30 | (2) |
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What are the different test plan documents in a project? |
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32 | (1) |
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How do test documents in a project span across the software development lifecycle? |
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33 | (1) |
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Can you explain inventories? |
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34 | (1) |
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How do you do analysis and design for testing projects? |
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34 | (1) |
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Can you explain calibration? |
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34 | (2) |
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Which test cases are written first: white boxes or black boxes? |
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36 | (1) |
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Can you explain cohabiting software? |
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37 | (1) |
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What impact ratings have you used in your projects? |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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Explain the SDLC (Software Development LifeCycle) in detail? |
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39 | (1) |
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Can you explain the waterfall model? |
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39 | (1) |
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Can you explain the big-bang waterfall model? |
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39 | (1) |
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Can you explain the phased waterfall model? |
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39 | (1) |
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Explain the interative model, incremental model, spiral model, evolutionary model and the V-model? |
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39 | (1) |
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Explain unit testing, integration tests, system testing and acceptance testing? |
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What's the difference between system testing and acceptance testing? |
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46 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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What group of teams can do software testing? |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (12) |
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Can you explain boundary value analysis? |
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49 | (1) |
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What is a boundary value in software testing? |
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49 | (1) |
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Can you explain equivalence partitioning? |
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49 | (3) |
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Can you explain how the state transition diagrams can be helpful during testing? |
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52 | (1) |
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Can you explain random testing? |
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53 | (1) |
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Can you explain monkey testing? |
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53 | (1) |
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What is negative and positive testing? |
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54 | (1) |
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Can you explain exploratory testing? |
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54 | (1) |
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What are semi-random test cases? |
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55 | (1) |
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What is an orthogonal arrays? |
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56 | (1) |
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Can you explain a pair-wise defect? |
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56 | (2) |
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Can you explain decision tables? |
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58 | (1) |
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How did you define severity ratings in your project? |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (6) |
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What is a software process? |
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61 | (1) |
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What are the different cost elements involved in implementing a process in an organization? |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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What is a maturity level? |
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64 | (1) |
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Can you explain process areas in CMMI? |
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64 | (1) |
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Can you explain tailoring? |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (38) |
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What is CMMI and what's the advantage of implementing it in an organization? |
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67 | (1) |
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What's the difference between implementation and institutionalization? |
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68 | (1) |
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What are different models in CMMI? |
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69 | (1) |
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Can you explain staged and continuous models in CMMI? |
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69 | (3) |
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Can you explain the different maturity levels in a staged representation? |
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72 | (1) |
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Can you explain capability levels in a continuous representation? |
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73 | (2) |
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Which model should we use and under what scenarios? |
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75 | (1) |
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How many process areas are present in CMMI and what classification do they fall in? |
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75 | (2) |
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Can you define all the levels in CMMI? |
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77 | (3) |
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What different sources are needed to verify authenticity for CMMI implementation? |
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80 | (1) |
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Can you explain the SCAMPI process? |
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81 | (1) |
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How is appraisal done in CMMI? |
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81 | (1) |
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Which appraisal method class is best? |
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82 | (2) |
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Can you explain the importance of PII in SCAMPI? |
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84 | (1) |
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Can you explain implementation of CMMI in one of the key process areas? |
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85 | (3) |
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What are all the process areas and goals and practices? |
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88 | (1) |
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Can you explain all the process areas? |
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88 | (17) |
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105 | (12) |
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105 | (1) |
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Can you explain the different methodology for the execution and the design process stages in Six Sigma? |
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105 | (2) |
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What are executive leaders, champions, master black belts, green belts, and black belts? |
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107 | (2) |
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What are the different kinds of variations used in Six Sigma? |
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109 | (3) |
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Can you explain standard deviation? |
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112 | (3) |
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Can you explain the fish bone/Ishikawa diagram? |
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115 | (2) |
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117 | (10) |
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What is meant by measures and metrics? |
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117 | (1) |
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Can you explain how the number of defects are measured? |
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118 | (1) |
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Can you explain how the number of production defects are measured? |
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119 | (1) |
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Can you explain defect seeding? |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (1) |
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Can you explain unit and system test DRE? |
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121 | (3) |
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How do you measure test effectiveness? |
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124 | (1) |
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Can you explain defect age and defect spoilage? |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (20) |
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What are good candidates for automation in testing? |
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127 | (1) |
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Does automation replace manual testing? |
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127 | (1) |
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Which automation tools have you worked with and can you explain them briefly? |
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128 | (8) |
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How does load testing work for websites? |
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136 | (2) |
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Can you give an example showing load testing for Websites? |
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138 | (6) |
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What does the load test summary report contain? |
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144 | (1) |
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Can you explain data-driven testing? |
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145 | (1) |
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Can you explain table-driven testing? |
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145 | (1) |
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How can you perform data-driven testing using Automated QA? |
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145 | (2) |
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What are the different ways of doing black box testing? |
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Can you explain TPA analysis? |
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Can you explain function points? |
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Can you explain an application boundary? |
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Can you explain the elementary process? |
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Can you explain the concept of the static and dynamic elementary processes? |
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Can you explain FTR, ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ, and GSC? |
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How can you estimate the number of acceptance test cases in a project? |
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Can you explain how TPA works |
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How do you create an estimate for black box testing? |
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How do you estimate white box testing? |
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Is there a way to estimate acceptance test cases in a system? |
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