Entries Tagged 'Questions & answers' ↓
June 15th, 2008 — QA leadership, QA team skills, Questions & answers, Career in software Testing
Few days back ‘Teresa’ asked me an interesting question.
“I was intrigued by your website because it seems you are truly passionate and interested in testing. In my organization, we’ve found that it’s really hard to keep the GOOD testers in testing. Many of the really skilled testers are always looking for change and want to get out of testing for some reason. I would love to hear if you have any ideas on how to keep the good testers in testing?”
Teresa, first I will address this high attrition rate problem for all employees and then I will come back to addressing “How to keep good testers in testing positions?”
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May 31st, 2008 — Testing Concepts, Questions & answers, Testing Interview questions, Basics of Software testing
Despite of hundreds of web articles on Smoke and sanity testing, many people still have confusion between these terms and keep on asking to me. Here is a simple and understandable difference that can clear your confusion between smoke testing and sanity testing.
Here are the differences you can see:
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May 7th, 2008 — Questions & answers, Testing Interview questions, Web Testing, Basics of Software testing
This is the guest post from VijayD
Question:
What is the difference between client-server testing and web based testing and what are things that we need to test in such applications?
Ans:
Projects are broadly divided into two types of: Continue reading →
February 9th, 2008 — Questions & answers, QA certifications
I have written many articles on software testing certifications. Here is one more ’sample exam questions’ article on CSTE certification. CSTE testing certification is the basic certification to check testers skill and understanding of software testing theory and software testing practices.
If you are applying for CSTE certification check if you can answer at least 75% of the following test questions. Four and half hour CSTE exam consist of 4 parts, Two multiple choice parts and two essay parts.
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February 7th, 2008 — QA team skills, Questions & answers, Career in software Testing, How to be a good tester, Testing Interview questions
This article is the part software testing question and answer series. Here I will answer some reader’s questions asked to me in comments or using contact form. If you have queries on software testing, quality assurance or career in testing then you can ask me these questions in comment section below.
It’s not possible to address each and every question in detail as I observed the questions are on vast topics, for which detail answers will itself require a new article. I will answer such questions in brief here and will also write detail articles separately if required.
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January 15th, 2008 — QTP, Questions & answers, Testing Interview questions, Automation Testing
This post is in continuation with QTP interview questions series. Following questions will help for preparing interview as well as learning the QTP basics.
Quick Test Professional: Interview Questions and answers.
1. What are the features and benefits of Quick Test Pro(QTP)?
1. Key word driven testing
2. Suitable for both client server and web based application
3. VB script as the script language
4. Better error handling mechanism
5. Excellent data driven testing features
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