Software Testing Interview Question and Answers

81. What is the difference between Error,Fault and Failure?
 
  • Error : A human interaction which produces an incorrect result. It can also be called as Mistake.
  • Fault : A manifestation of an error in software. A fault, if encountered may cause a failure.
  • Failure : Deviation of the software from its expected delivery or service.
 
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82. What is the difference between Retest and Regression Testing?
  Retesting is conducted to ensure that the bug has been fixed correctly by the developer and Regression Testing is conducted to ensure that there are no side effects due to bug fixes.
 
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83. What is a Service Pack?
  Service Pack Contains code changes of all the patches released before this services pack. Service Pack is also called as Maintenance Update. This is released for easy maintenance of software. Usually a service pack is released once in six months.
 
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84. What is Software Metrics?
  Software Metrics is a measurement of how well an organization is performing with respect to different activities it carries out.
 
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85. Why is Smoke Testing Essential?
  Smoke Testing is essential since testing believes that testing a product which is not meeting certain basic functional requirements is waste of time and it doesn’t result good quality of the software. So in order to ensure that build is meeting basic functionality goals before further detailed testing, we conduct smoke testing.
 
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