Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Web Testing Interview Questions

1. Describe some of the possible web page futures.

2. Question: What are possible configurations that could affect the testing strategy of any web site?
Answer: Hardware platform (PC, Mac), Browser software and version, Browser Plug-Ins, Browser settings options, Video resolution and Color Depth, text size

3. What is website usability testing.
Ans:- Usability testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users…Testing to check “User Friendliness”

4. Why spell checker is not enough during testing spelling on web page?
Ans:- Because there are Pictures/Logos/Photos that may contain wrong spellings and the spell checker is not able to identify those errors.

5. Question: Name a few website mistakes that could cause configuration and compatibility bugs.
Answer: Non standard colors, frames, tables etc.

6. Question: What the latest web technologies do you know?
Answer: RSS

7.Question: Name some Alternative Browsers.
Answer: Opera, Mozilla

8. Describe some Caching Issues.
:-Cache is
A) HTML meta tags to prevent page caching. Every single possible combination and none work.
B) PHP Headers to prevent page caching. Every single possible combination and none work.
C)Proxy server caching issues.
NOTE:-So its slow down the overall Performance of the system. So we used to clean up the old cache time by time.

9. What HTML standard?

10.What web specific types of testing?

11.What is static and what is dynamic web page?

12.Question: Can the Netscape scripting host without plug-ins run Microsofts JScript on the client side?
Answer: No

13. Question: What is Glyphs?
Answer: Glyph is the picture of the character.

14.What techniques will cause double-byte problems to show up?
Ans:- ColdFusion MX is not compatible for unixs(Solaris).

15. What is Alt Key Input?

16. How will you decide when and what to test during performance testing?

17. Question: What types of web testing security problems do you know?
Answer:(Denial of Service (DoS) attack, buffer overflow)

18. Question: What types HTTP Response Codes do you know?
Answer: ( 2xx – success, 3xx – Redirection, 4xx – Client Error, 5xx – Server Error)

19. What errors can occur when the page loads?

20. What are the metrics what can be used during performance testing?

21. What HTML file extension can be used?

22. What are the differences between testing WEB application and testing client-sever
application?

23. Write test cases for Search Engine?

24. Difference between HTTP and HTTPS? Explain how the data is secured in
HTTPS?

25. What does DNS contains?

26. What is the difference between authentication and authorization?

27. What type of security testing you performed?

28. Difference between GUI and Usability Testing