Muhammad Irfan

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Testing Types

Which testing types do you know?

This comprehensive list covers a lot of testing types will help you to properly respond on this QA interview question, but most likely still missed a few types of testing techniques. As potential candidate for QA Engineer position, you do not need to memorize all testing types in order to provide and answer on QA interview question, but it would be nice you could name at least a ten testing types, and even better if you could give the complete definition of some of the testing types and explain how you used them in your testing career.

  • Acceptance Testing
  • Ad Hoc Testing
  • Aesthetics testing
  • Agile Testing
  • All-pairs testing
  • Alpha testing
  • API testing
  • Automated testing
  • Beta testing
  • Black box testing
  • Boundary testing
  • Cloud testing
  • Comparison testing
  • Compatibility testing
  • Conformance testing
  • Consistency testing
  • Database testing
  • Data-driven testing
  • Deployment testing
  • Documentation testing
  • Domain testing
  • Dry run testing
  • End to end testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • Fault injection testing
  • Functional testing
  • Fuzz testing
  • Gray box testing
  • Guerrilla testing
  • GUI testing
  • Hybrid testing
  • Installation testing
  • Integration testing
  • Interface testing
  • Internationalization testing
  • Interoperability testing
  • Keyword-driven testing
  • Life cycle testing
  • Load testing
  • Localization testing
  • Logic testing
  • Manual testing
  • Migration testing
  • Mobile testing
  • Monkey testing
  • Mutation testing
  • Negative testing
  • Pair wise testing
  • Performance testing
  • Pilot testing
  • Positive testing
  • Protocol testing
  • Recovery testing
  • Regression testing
  • Reliability testing
  • Requirements testing
  • Risk based testing
  • Sanity testing
  • Scalability testing
  • Scenario testing
  • Scripted testing
  • Security testing
  • Smoke testing
  • Soak testing
  • Specification testing
  • Standards testing
  • State testing
  • Stress testing
  • System testing
  • Testability testing
  • Unit testing
  • Upgrade testing
  • Usability testing
  • Web testing
  • White box testing