Interview Questions

Exploratory testing: means testing an application without a test plan and test script. In exploring testing test explore the application on the basis on his knowledge. The tester has no knowledge about the application previously. He explores the application like an end user and try to use it. While using the application his main motive is to find the bugs which are in the application.

Specification-driven testing: means to test the functionality of software according to the user requirements. In this, tester inputs multiple data and monitors the outputs from, the test object. In this testing tester evaluate the showstopper bugs which break the major functionality of the application. This type of testing requires test plan and test.

•  NO_CACHE – It is used for not caching values.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE – Result column preloads and compares the column into the memory, prior to executing the lookup.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE is used when the table can exactly fit in the memory space.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE – Result column loads and compares the column into the memory when a function performs the execution.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE is suitable while looking up the highly repetitive values with small subset of data.

When we create string with new() Operator, it’s created in heap and not added into string pool while String created using literal are created in String pool itself which exists in PermGen area of heap.

String s = new String("Test");

does not put the object in String pool , we need to call String.intern() method which is used to put them into String pool explicitly. its only when you create String object as String literal e.g. String s = "Test" Java automatically put that into String pool.

What are your weaknesses?

This is a very common interview question for many jobs across industries. Most people feel Answering strengths is easy but weaknesses is difficult. If approached the right way this question will give you chance to build trust. You have 3 options/approaches to answer this question. 

1. Deny having any weaknesses. This approach is least common and surely not the way to go.

2. Spin a Weakness into a strength. Like, "I'm a perfectionist" or "I care too much"

Note - This is very common approach and some interviewers think you are not being honest. 

3. Give an honest answer (Recommended). Answer the question honestly without shooting yourself in the foot. 

E.g. My weakness is public speaking, I am working on it. Ofcourse make sure this is not the primary requirement of the job. 

$_SERVER and $_ENV arrays contain different information. The information depends on the server and operating system being used. Most of the information can be seen of an array for a particular server and operating system. The syntax is as follows:

foreach($_SERVER as $key =>$value)

{ echo “Key=$key, Value=$value\n”; }

No. The mode is specified via the SYSCTL DD card in the JCL.

Htmlentities() converts all applicable characters to HTML entities. While htmlspecialcharacter()converts special characters to HTML entities. This means htmlentities( ) will check for non English language characters, such as French accents, the German umlaut, etc.