Manual Testing Interview Questions

Ques. Why manual testing is preferred by number of Software companies while good automated tools are available in market?

1. High per-test or maintenance costs are one indicator that a test should be done manually.

2. Need of human judgment  to access the correctness of results, always need human interfere to judge a result.

3. Some times need to install the number of software's and hardware for a testing tool.

4. Sometimes need to reconfigure the system and network, Like operations and maintenance testing.

5. To read the documents and check results we always need humans.

Ques. How many types of CMM levels?

CMM is describe level 3 or above.

Level 3 - Defined

It is characteristic of processes at this level that there are sets of defined and documented rules and standard processes established and will be positive changes over time.

Level 4 - Managed

It is characteristic of processes at this level that, using process metrics, management can effectively control the AS-IS process (e.g., for software development ).

Level 5 - Optimized

It is a characteristic of processes at this level that the focus is on continually improving process performance through both incremental and innovative technological changes/improvements.

Ques: What's the role of documentation in QA?

1. Should be document so that it can be repeatable.

2. Specifications, designs, business rules, inspection reports, configurations, code changes, test plans, test cases, bug reports, user manuals, etc. should all be documented, So that new team member can easily understand and old members can remember.

3. To track the changes and versioning.

4. To Reproduce the bugs.

5. To Test the application as per user requirement.