Manual Testing Interview Questions and Answers

What is Regression Testing ?
What is Smoke Testing ?
What is Sanity Testing ?
What is Retesting ?
What is SDLC ?
What is STLC ?
What is Bug Life Cycle / Defect Life Cycle ?
What is RTM ?
What is Adhoc Testing ?
What is Static Testing ?
What is Dynamic Testing ?
What is Compatibility Testing ?
What is White Box Testing ?
What is Black Box Testing ?
What is Grey Box Testing ?
What is Monkey Testing ?
What is Exploratory Testing ?
What is End To End Testing ?
What is Usability Testing ?
What is Adhoc Testing ?
What is Parallel Testing ?
What is Cross Browser Testing ?
What is Performance Testing ?
What is Unit Testing ?
What is Module Testing ?
What is Integration Testing ?
What is System Testing ?
What is UAT Testing ?
What is Alpha Testing ?
What is Beta Testing ?
What is Error ?
What is Defect ?
What is Bug ?
What is Failure ?
What is Authentication Testing ?
What is Authorization Testing ?
What is Verification in software testing ?
What is Validation in software testing ?
What is Installation Testing ?
What is Port Testing ?
What is Installation Testing ?
What is Security Testing ?
What is Direct URL Testing ?
What is Firewall Testing(or)User Privileges Testing ?
What is Mutation Testing ?
What is SOAK /Reliability Testing ?
What is LOAD Testing ?
What is STRESS Testing ?
What is STORAGE Testing ?
What is Data Volume Testing ?
What is Big Bang /Informal
What is Icremental/Formal Testing
What is Non-functional testing
What is Requirements-based testing
What is Software Testing
What are Quality Assurance and Quality Control
What is Positive and Negative Testing
What is Test Strategy
What is Test Plan and contents available in a Test Plan
What is Test Suite
What is Test Scenario
What is What is Test Closure
What is List out Test Deliverables
What is Unit Testing
What is Integration Testing
What is System Testing
What is Big Bang Approach
What is Top-Down Approach
What is Bottom-Up Approach
What is End-To-End Testing
What is Functional Testing
What is Non-Functional Testing
What is Acceptance Testing
What is Alpha Testing
What is Beta Testing
What is Gamma Testing
What is Recovery Testing
What is Formal Testing
What is Risk Based Testing
What is Exploratory Testing
What is Monkey Testing?
What is Usability Testing
What is Security Testing
What is Soak Testing
What is Performance Testing
What is Load Testing
What is Volume Testing
What is Stress Testing
What is Scalability Testing
What is Concurrency Testing
What is Fuzz Testing
What is Adhoc Testing
What is Interface Testing
What is Reliability Testing
What is Bucket Testing
What is A/B Testing
What is Split Testing
What are the principles of Software Testing
What is Exhaustive Testing
What is Early Testing
What is Defect clustering
What is Pesticide Paradox
What is Walk Through
What is Inspection
Who are all involve in an inspection meeting
What is Bug Severity
What is Bug Priority
What is Tell some examples of Bug Severity and Bug Priority
What is the differe
What is difference between Standalone application, ClientServer application and Web application
What is Bug Life Cycle
What is Bug Leakage
What is Defect Age
What is Error Seeding
What is Showstopper Defect
What is Hot Fix
What is Boundary Value Analysis
What is Equivalence Class Partition
What is Error Guessing ?
What is Decision Table testing
What is State Transition
What is an entry criteria
What is an exit criteria
What is Test Metrics
When to stop testing

Most Asked Manual Testing Questions (2023-2024)
1. What do you understand by software testing?
2. When should you stop the testing process?
3. What do verification and validation mean in software testing?
4. What is static testing? When does it start and what does it cover?
5. Define black-box testing.
6. What is a test plan and what does it include?
7. What is Traceability Matrix?
8. What is meant by test coverage?
9. Is it possible to achieve 100% testing coverage? How would you ensure it?
10. What are unit testing and integration testing?
11. Can we do system testing at any stage?
12. Mention the different types of software testing.
13. What is the difference between a test driver and a test stub?
14. What is agile testing and why is it important?
15. What do you know about data flow testing?
16. What is the purpose of the end-to-end testing?
17. Can you explain the importance of test cases in the manual testing process?
18. What is regression testing, and why is it important?
19. How do you prioritize test cases when you have limited time for testing? ( Everytime asked in Interview)
20. The probability that a server-class application hosted on the cloud is up and running for six long months without crashing is 99.99 percent. To analyze this type of scenario, what test will you perform?
21. What will you do when a bug turns up during testing?
22. How do you test a product if the requirements are yet to be freezed?
23. If a product is in the production stage and one of its modules gets updated, then is it necessary to perform regression testing?
24. How will you overcome the challenges faced due to the unavailability of proper documentation for testing? ( Every company faced )
25. What do you understand about STLC? (Mostly asked)
26. In software testing, what does a fault mean?
27. How do severity and priority relate to each other?
28. Can you describe the defect life cycle and the different stages involved in defect management? ( Asked mostly)
29. What techniques do you use to test database views and stored procedures using SQL queries? How do you ensure their correctness and efficiency?
30. Describe the process you follow for creating and executing test cases in a manual testing environment.
31. What do you mean by defect detection percentage in software testing?
32. What is the average age of a defect in software testing?
33. On the basis of which factors would you consider choosing automated testing over manual testing?
34. Is there any difference between bug leakage and bug release?
35. What is meant by latent defect?