Software Engineer in Test Interview Questions
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AnswersWhy do we need abstract classes?
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Aricent Software Engineer in Test Object Oriented Design - 0of 0 votes
AnswerOn campus Microsoft for SDET:
- Techno October 15, 2008
1. Why SDET ?
2. How do you approach a testing problem - Explain ?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow will you test a soda can?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test - 0of 0 votes
AnswersYou are given a set of reference files (.txt files). The files contain sentences in English language. You have to write a function to process these files. The input to the function is path to the files. Take each file, read each line and process it so that you get first word last, last word first and so on (reversing the order of the words) and send the words to a function that translates each word into Hebrew. Assume that you already have the function that translates to Hebrew. You just have to use it. Function prototype is not provided. You can make your assumptions.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test C - 2of 0 votes
Answerscode a function that returns the nth fibnocci number... coded it the most efficient way by using 3 variable... Then the interviewer wrote the recursive form and asked me what are the pros and cons of your(iterative) approach and recursive approach.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswersREverse the words of a string.. Code it and write test cases.. Here many test cases failed ... Since I was able to point out myself what went wrong I think that covered up for the buggy code I wrote.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswersTell me about yourself and briefly describe what is in your resume
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 4of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a canoe, what test cases would you write for it.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing - 0of 0 votes
AnswersYou have a coke machine that is spitting 2-3 coke cans a second. You have a requirement to test every coke can that comes out. What test cases will you automate?
- offerFromMS October 14, 2008
He made me think for 15 mins to get all possible wired things that you can test.. and also how you can test...
This truly required a lot of thought .. In the end he was impressed ( lucky me :) )| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswerYou are a consulting company, that had done good once upon a time and now is in a almost bankrupt situation.
- offerFromMS October 14, 2008
Then a big client comes and says that they wanted to code a distributed application using HTTP. You know that for the scenario the client is describing, SOAP would do a much better job. But the client is adamant at going with HTTP. What would you do?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow would you go about testing a pen? If you needed 10 weeks to test the pen comprehensively and you are 5 weeks into your work. Then they give another pen based on a new technology and ask you to test it along with the original pen within the remaining 5 weeks. What do you do?
- offerFromMS October 14, 2008
a) you shout at management saying that this is crazy
b) You work overtime to complete the work
c) you inform the management that the time is not sufficient
I said a combination of b and c.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing Behavioral - -1of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a string as input , say " ababcdcec", the output should be the number of times the character that has repeated the maximum. In the example a occurs twice, b occurs twice, c occurs thrice, d and e once each.. Thus the function should return 3.
- offerFromMS October 14, 2008
Asked to write test cases for this.( wrote arnd 10 ) for which the interviewer said that the testcases are 80-90% compprehensive| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhy Microsoft? Which is your technically most challenging project?
- offerFromMS October 14, 2008
NOTE: These 2 questions were asked in every round of 5 onsite interview rounds| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 1of 0 votes
AnswerHow was your experience? What went bad you did during the day?
- AD October 11, 2008
Test blind windows.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test General Questions and Comments - 1of 0 votes
AnswersRound 3:
- AD October 11, 2008
Something about me.... My intership project...
This guy asked me twice if i know C#. I told me NO both of the times.
Q1. reverse the string. Example "This is test" to "sihT si tset".... key point here was do not assume that "space" is the onlu delimiter....ask this Question.
he again asked me if i know C#. this time I said if u can give me the class and its functions, I can try.
Then he gave be 2 DayTime objects and a random function... return the random date between these 2 dates.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 1of 0 votes
AnswersFirst Interview at Redmond...Lunch Interview.. with SDET-II. half of that happened in his office, rest of it in the canteen
- AD October 11, 2008
Why SDET?
Given an unsorted array, return the first repeadted integer? I gave him first the bitmap solution.. he said somebody has solved the same problem in the same way...:D... but there is more simpler solution. ... then i gave him the hasttable solution... then code it....later tested it.
Test a vending macine?
Few details about the project.
Over to lunch where he asked what challenging tasks you have faced? I kept him busy by asking lots of Q rather the other way round.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 1of 0 votes
AnswersThis is the phone interview. I was interviewing for SDET.
- AD October 11, 2008
Why MS?
Why SDET?
Tell me something about youself?
Given a sorted LL, insert an element at a given position. Test it?
Do you have any questions for me.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
Answershow to free memory allocated to an array with new function?
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Google Software Engineer in Test C - 0of 0 votes
AnswerWhat's code coverage?
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Google Software Engineer in Test Testing - 0of 0 votes
AnswersThere are two collections of objects C1 and C2. C1 can be any thing - Flowers, Fruits, Foot Balls etc.. and C2 also same. How can you find out if C1 is a subset of C2 or C2 is a subset of C1 or both are equal? Provide algorithm, code and test cases.
- Nachiketha October 08, 2008
The interviewer was expecting a linear algorithm - the algorithm with a time complexity of O(n)| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat was the most difficult problem you solved so far?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Experience - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow do you find out if a given string S1 is a substring of another string S2? Provide algorithm, code and test cases.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow big was the team during your Internship?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Experience - 4of 0 votes
AnswersThere is an array of 52 numbers ? How do you shuffle this array ? Whats the complexity of your algorithm ? What are the possible test cases ? How do you change the design and or code if this program is used by a house wife or casino?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat are the problems with User Interface Design in a project?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Experience - 0of 0 votes
AnswersDo you prefer to work on the front end or back end of a product? What are the pros and cons of working on Front end and back end ?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Experience - 0of 0 votes
AnswerWhat did you study? Tell me about your projects and thesis.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Experience - 1of 1 vote
AnswersReverse a string , . don't use any temp variable to store the string .
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Apple Microsoft Software Engineer / Developer Software Engineer in Test String Manipulation - 0of 0 votes
AnswersIdentify the regular expression in a given string such that the pattern does not repeat. For example, to identify the pattern 'foo' only once in an input.
- Anonymous October 06, 2008
'jhkhfoojkkj' should be identified right
'kjhfooaaaaafoo' should not be| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Google Software Engineer in Test String Manipulation