What is software testing and how to prepare for its interview?
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I used to interview testers, some out of college, some with experience, and test managers.
For testers just out of college:
- What is the responsibility of an operating system?
- What do the following terms mean, examples please
o working set
o pre-emption
o semaphore
o critical path
- What's the largest and most complicated program you wrote that works? Describe it.
- Describe how a page fault is handled. Include both hardware and software.
- If you had to build a new CPU but could only use six instructions, which would you use and why?
For candidates with test experience:
- How do you establish test sufficiency in a test plan?
- Describe each of the following terms:
o Unit Test
o Feature Test
o System Test
o Regression test
o White box testing
o Black box testing
o Use cases
- What is the tester's responsibility to do before submitting a defect report to a developer?
- What was the most challenging bug you found, why?
For managers:
- Describe the complete test life cycle
- What measures and metrics should be used through the test life cycle
- How do you balance your time strategically vs tactically?
- What is the test manager's responsibility in each of the following milestone meetings?
o Proposal
o Investigation
o Code Freeze
o Release Readiness
Hi,
I'm a software tester.
Basically I can only speak to my job because procedures vary based on your company.
Essentially my job is the following:
1.) I interface with technical support and customers to track down and analyze bugs in our software that they find.
2.) Regression testing! Yaay!!
Basically when we do a service release or a new version of our product I get to go through and make sure none of the old stuff was broken. (By in large most companies automate this process).
3.) Of course I test new features to ensure they work and didn't break anything that the new feature may be related to.
As far as the interview, you want to let them know you're analytical and (very important) detail oriented.
That's pretty much it. (I do other stuff but my stuff is pretty unique to my company.)
Good luck and God bless on the interview!
BD
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