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Software Testing Interview Questions: Part 1 (Beginner Level)

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Why a software needs to be tested?
Why do software have bugs?
Who in the company is responsible for Quality?
Should we test every possible combination/scenario for a program?
How will you describe testing activities?
Do you have a favorite QA book? Why?
How do we regression testing?


What is:
- the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?
- the difference between QA and Testing?
- the difference between Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing?
- the difference between a Bug and an Enhancement?
- is the purpose of the testing?
- the difference between Ad-hoc Testing, Monkey Testing and Exploratory Testing?
- the difference between Stress Testing and Load Testing?
- the sequence of succession in STLC - Software Testing Life Cycle?
- the difference between Verification and Validation?
- Defect Density?
- the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?
- Negative Testing?
- Incremental Integration Testing?
- the difference between Unit Testing, Component Testing and Integration Testing?
- the difference between Requirements & Specifications?
- the difference between Statement Coverage, Branch Coverage and Path Coverage?
- the difference between Software Testing and Debugging?
- the difference between a Bug and a Defect?
- are Baseline Documents?
- the difference between System Testing and End-to-End Testing or E2E Testing?
- the difference between Alpha Testing and Beta Testing?
- the difference between a Test Plan and a Use Case?
- the difference between Bug Priority & Bug Severity?
- difference between Waterfall Model and V Model?
- the difference between Static Testing and Dynamic Testing?
- the difference between Black Box Testing & White Box Testing?


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