The document provides concise definitions for various types of software testing. Key testing types include ad hoc testing, accessibility testing, alpha and beta testing, component testing, and many others, each with specific purposes and methodologies. The definitions also cover performance, usability, security, and recovery testing, highlighting the importance of assessing software functionality, compatibility, and user satisfaction.

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1) What’s Ad Hoc Testing ?
A testing where the tester tries to break the software by randomly
trying functionality of software.
2) What’s the Accessibility Testing ?
Testing that determines if software will be usable by people with
disabilities.
3) What’s the Alpha Testing ?
The Alpha Testing is conducted at the developer sites and in a
controlled environment by the end user of the software
4) What’s the Beta Testing ?
Testing the application after the installation at the client place.
5) What is Component Testing ?
Testing of individual software components (Unit Testing).
6) What’s Compatibility Testing ?
In Compatibility testing we can test that software is compatible with
other elements of system.
7) What is Concurrency Testing ?
Multi-user testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing
the same application code, module or databaserecords. Identifies and
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measures the level of locking, deadlocking and use of single-threaded
code and locking semaphores.
8) What is Conformance Testing ?
The process of testing that an implementation conforms to the
specification on which it is based. Usually applied to testing
conformance to a formal standard.
9) What is Context Driven Testing ?
The context-driven school of software testing is flavor of Agile Testing
that advocates continuous and creative evaluation of testing
opportunities in light of the potential information revealed and the
value of that information to the organization right now.
10) What is Data Driven Testing ?
Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by externally
defined data values, maintained as a file or spreadsheet. A common
technique in Automated Testing.
11) What is Conversion Testing ?
Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing
systems for use in replacement systems.
12) What is Dependency Testing ?
Examines an application’s requirements for pre-existing software,
initial states and configuration in order to maintain proper
functionality.
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13) What is Depth Testing ?
A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
14) What is Dynamic Testing ?
Testing software through executing it. See also Static Testing.
15) What is Endurance Testing ?
Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with
prolonged execution.
16) What is End-to-End testing ?
Testing a complete application environment in a situation that mimics
real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network
communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or
systems if appropriate.
17) What is Exhaustive Testing ?
Testing which covers all combinations of input values and
preconditions for an element of the software under test.
18) What is Gorilla Testing ?
Testing one particular module, functionality heavily.
19) What is Installation Testing ?
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Confirms that the application under test recovers from expected or
unexpected events without loss of data or functionality. Events can
include shortage of disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or
power out conditions.
20) What is Localization Testing ?
This term refers to making software specifically designed for a specific
locality.
21) What is Loop Testing ?
A white box testing technique that exercises program loops.
22) What is Mutation Testing ?
Mutation testing is a method for determining if a set of test data or test
cases is useful, by deliberately introducing various code changes
(‘bugs’) and retesting with the original test data/cases to determine if
the ‘bugs’ are detected. Proper implementation requires large
computational resources
23) What is Monkey Testing ?
Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here and
there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.
24) What is Positive Testing ?
Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as “test to pass”.
See also Negative Testing.
25) What is Negative Testing ?
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Testing aimed at showing software does not work. Also known as “test
to fail”. See also Positive Testing.
26) What is Path Testing ?
Testing in which all paths in the program source code are tested at least
once.
27) What is Performance Testing ?
Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or
component with specified performance requirements. Often this is
performed using an automated test tool to simulate large number of
users. Also know as “Load Testing”.
28) What is Ramp Testing ?
Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
29) What is Recovery Testing ?
Confirms that the program recovers from expected or unexpected
events without loss of data or functionality. Events can include shortage
of disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out
conditions.
30) What is the Re-testing testing ?
Retesting- Again testing the functionality of the application.
31) What is the Regression testing ?
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Regression- Check that change in code have not effected the working
functionality
32) What is Sanity Testing ?
Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to
determine if its basically operational.
33) What is Scalability Testing ?
Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test
gracefully handles increases in work load.
34) What is Security Testing ?
Testing which confirms that the program can restrict access to
authorized personnel and that the authorized personnel can access the
functions available to their security level.
35) What is Stress Testing ?
Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability
of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal
operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the
results.
36) What is Smoke Testing ?
A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software
work. Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new
piece of hardware for the first time and considering it a success if it
does not catch on fire.
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37) What is Soak Testing ?
Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time. For
example, running several times more transactions in an entire day (or
night) than would be expected in a busy day, to identify and
performance problems that appear after a large number of transactions
have been executed.
38) What’s the Usability testing ?
Usability testing is for user friendliness.
39) What’s the User acceptance testing ?
User acceptance testing is determining if software is satisfactory to an
end-user or customer.
40) What’s the Volume Testing ?
We can perform the Volume testing, where the system is subjected to
large volume of data.
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