Top Software Testing Interview Questions (2024)

• Software Testing Interview Questions for Freshers
  • 1. What is Software testing?
  • 2. What are the different types of testing?
  • 3. What are the principles of software testing?
  • 4. What is regression testing in software testing?
  • 5. What is exploratory testing?
  • 6. What is end-to-end testing?
  • 7. What is unit testing?
  • 8. What is an API?
  • 9. What is a test environment?
  • 10. Explain how does a test coverage tool work?
  • 11. Can you describe the different types of test coverage techniques?
  • 12. Explain black-box testing, white-box testing, and grey-box testing.
  • 13. Is Automation testing in agile methodology useful?
  • 14. Explain test scenarios, test scripts, and test cases in software testing.
  • 15. What is a bug in software testing?
  • 16. State the difference between bugs and errors
  • 17. What is a Test Plan? What does it include?
  • 18. What is a Test Report? What does it include?
  • 19. What do you mean by Test Deliverables?
  • 20. What are different categories of debugging?
  • 21. Write some common mistakes that lead to major issues.
  • 22. What is a user story?
  • 23. List some of the popular software testing tools/frameworks, providing a brief description of each.
  • 24. What is A/B testing?
  • 25. What is defects in software testing?
  • 26. What is spice in software testing?
  • 27. What do you mean by latent defect and masked defect?
  • 28. Can you explain sanity testing in software testing?
  • 29. What is the purpose of TestNG?
  • 30. Is it possible to skip a method or a code block in TestNG?
  • 31. What is the best way to set priority for test cases in TestNG?
  • 32. What is Object Repository?
  • 33. What are the valuable steps to resolve issues while testing?
  • 34. What qualities a software tester should have?