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Company:  Capgemini Sent By: Anusha  Date of Interview:  4th Aug,2012 Interview Questions: What is Incremental and Partial Load? What is Group By? Differnce between Smoke and SanityTesting ? what is Regression Testing? Howto get an employee Id from Employee Table? OLAP and OLTP? What are Surrogate Keys? fact and dimension Table? Semi fact table? Transformation [...]

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Install Testing is done to ensure that the software and its components get installed successfully and function properly post Installation.While doing Installation testing, Test engineer should keep in mind the following points: Product Installer should check for the pre-requisites needed for the software. Product Installer should give user the default install location of the software. [...]

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A mixture of white-box and black-box testing. Gray/grey box testing is a software testing technique that uses a combination of black box testing and white box testingGray/grey box testing is not black box testing, because the tester does know some of the internal workings of the software under Test. In gray/grey box testing, the tester [...]

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There are some software testing certification programs that can support the professional aspirations of software testers and quality assurance specialists. ISTQB – International Software Testing Qualifications Board CSTE – Certified Software Tester CSTP – Certified Software Test Professional CTM – Certified Test Manager CSPM – Certified Software Project Manager CSPE – Certified Software Process Engineer [...]

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- Image Checkpoints enable you to check the properties of a Web image. You can check an area of a Web page or Application as a bitmap. While creating a Test or component, you specify the area you want to check by selecting an object. You can check an entire object or any area within [...]

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Software failure occurs when the software does not do what the user expects to see. A software fault, on the other hand, is a hidden programming error. A software fault becomes a software failure only when the exact computation conditions are met, and the faulty portion of the code is executed on the CPU. This [...]

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This is the most common question I have heard during the Interviews! And, most of the times I have seen candidates getting confused and confusing the questioner as well with their answers! Even though you are working in a real time environment, and deal with the Regression and Re-testing scenarios, it is very confusing to [...]

We have heard this many times- We are an international brand! Or, we have international clients. So, how do these companies become international? Do they just sell their products to a wider audience? Yes, but something more than that as well. They also customize their products according to the needs and cultures of their customers. That means, [...]

We live with bugs! Yes, everything revolves around a bug for us software testers. Whatever we talk, measure, find, Report are all in terms of bugs. But, do we actually know how much responsibility lies in our hands when we find a bug? How much contribution we are making towards the Product we are testing [...]

What is Crowdsourcing? Out sourcing work to crowd, instead of out sourcing to a particular company or person. Best example uTest Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call  – wikipedia.org CrowdConf 2010 video Where [...]