ISTQB chapter 1

1. Why testing is necessary?
2. What are errors, faults and failures? Explain are they same or different?
3. What are necessary things to avoid faults?
4. What is exhaustive testing?
5. Justify this statement: “Prioritise tests so that, whenever you stop testing, you have done the best testing in the time available”.
6. Why influence testing needed?
7. What are different levels of test planning? Define each.
8. Define.
   1. Test planning
   2. A test case
   3. Test specification
   4. Execution
   5. Recording
   6. Check test completion
9. What are the test completion criteria?
10. Why test? Define.
11. Define traditional testing approach?
12. What is testing paradox?
13. Who wants to be a tester?
14. What are the responsibility of tester?
15. What are various level of dependence?
16. When re-testing is require?
17. Define regression testing?
18. How regression testing is related automation?
19. How important are expected results?
20. How to prioritise testing?

 

ISTQB chapter 2

1. Define each step of V-model? How it work in late test design and early test design?
2. What is VVT? Describe it.
3. Why testing is expensive?
4. What do software faults cost?
5. How testing is expensive for you?
6. What are the high level test planning?
7. What are the different test plan?
8. Define component testing? What are the component testing strategy?
9. Define each step of component test process?
10. What are the different test design techniques?
11. Why integration testing in the small?
12. Define top-down integration?What are the advantage and disadvantage of top-down integration?
13. Define bottom-up integration?What are the advantage and disadvantage of bottom-up integration?
14. What are the advantage and disadvantage of minimum capability integration?
15. Why we are planning integration?
16. Define
    1. System testing
    2. Functional system testing
    3. Non-functional system testing
    4. Requirements-based testing
    5. Business process-based testing
    6. Performance Tests
    7. Multi-User Tests
    8. Usability Tests
    9. Security Tests
    10. Documentation Testing
    11. User acceptance testing
    12. Contract acceptance testing
    13. Alpha test
    14. Beta test
    15. Maintenance testing
17. What are the difference between alpha and beta testing?
18. What to test in maintenance testing?

 

ISTQB chapter 3

1. What are the benefit of reviews? Why is it cost-effective?
2. What to review/Inspect at each level of V-model?
3. What are different types of review of  a document?
4. What are the different point to review of a document?
5. Is inspection and reviews different from each others? Define it.
6. Define the different process of inspection?
7. What a static analysis do?
8. How data flow analysis is useful for static analysis?
9. What is Cyclomatic complexity?

 

ISTQB chapter 4

1. What are the dynamic test techniques?
2. What are the advantages of different test techniques?
3. Define black box test design and measurement techniques?
4. Why do both EP(equivalence partitioning) and BVA(boundary value analysis)?
5. What is decision table? Describe each component?
6. How we find rationalising outputs from decision table?
7. Why Rationalising is danger?
8. Define white box test design and measurement techniques?
9. Define
   1. Statement coverage
   2. Decision coverage
   3. Paths through code
   4. Paths through code with loops
10. Differentiate black-box and white-box testing?
11. What is error guessing? How we derive a error guess?

 

ISTQB chapter 5

1. Describe the organisational structures for testing?
2. Write advantage and disadvantage on each:
   1. Testing by development team
   2. Testing by developers
   3. Tester on development team
   4. Independent test team
   5. Internal test consultants
   6. Third party test
3. What are the usual choices test?
4. What are the skill needed in testing? Why.
5. What is configuration management? What are the different topics in configuration management?
6. Define products for configuration management in testing?
7. Describe test cycles / iterations?
8. How time to report a faults?
9. What is diverging S-curve? How to use it?
10. What is incident? Describe Incident management?
11. Describe incident cycle?
12. Differentiate severity versus priority?
13. What are the different standards for testing?How they use?

 

ISTQB chapter 6

1. What are the different testing tool classifications? How they fit at different stage of V-model?
2. Define:
   1. Requirements testing tools
   2. Static analysis tools
   3. Test design tools
   4. Test data preparation tools
   5. Test running tools - character-based, GUI
   6. Comparison tools
   7. Test harnesses and drivers
   8. Performance test tools
   9. Dynamic analysis tools
   10. Debugging tools
   11. Test management tools
   12. Coverage measurement
3. What the main things to remember in captured test scripts?
4. How to do automated verification?
5. What are the different scripted manual testing?