Software Testing Interview Questions

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 have finished recording,we can instruct QTP to check the properties of specific objects in our application by means of enhancement features available in QTP. When we perform a run session,QTP performs each step in our test or component. After the run session ends,we can view a report detailing which steps were performed,and which one succeeded or failed.

7.What is Actions?

A test is composed of actions. The steps we add to a test are included with in the test’s actions. By each test begin with a single action. We can divide our test into multiple actions to organize our test.

8.What are all the main stages will involve in QTP while testing?

Creating tests or business components
Running tests or business components
Analyzing results

9.How the creation of test will be accomplished in QTP?

We can create the test or component by either recording a session on our application or web site or building an object repository and adding steps manually to the keyword view using keyword-driven functionality. We can then modify our test with programming statements.

10.What is the purpose of documentation in key word view?

The documentation column of the key word view used to displays a description of each step in easy to understand sentences.

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.

Unfortunately even the most recent version of SilkTest has no support for Flex

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

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()

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?