Ans: Good code is which has readability, modularity, layering, design, efficiency, elegance and clarity.

What are five common solutions to software development problems?

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Appropriate requirements
Realistic schedules
Adequate testing
Stick to initial requirements where feasible    
Communication

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Inadequate requirements from the clients
Unrealistic schedules
Insufficient testing
Given different work under the existing process
Miscommunication

Ans: The tester to developer ratio is been interesting indication number of people performing testing activities compared to the number of people in developing. Ratios have dramatically increased in the favor of testers during short life of software engineering discipline. The ration was previously about 1:5-10 means one tester for every five to ten developers. Presently the ration has been increased towards 1:2 to 1:4

Ans: Quality assurance deals with prevention of defects in the product that has been developed. Testing is used to control the quality of system; it mainly focuses towards detecting and removal of defects.

Ans: Stress testing is use to check the peak loads of the application. Load testing is used to check how many users are accessing the application and time taken to check the application degrades or failed.

Ans: This is scripted end to end testing which duplicates the specific workflow, which is expected to utilize by end user.

Ans: Usability testing is used to check the user friendliness of product which can help users to learn easily.

Ans: Top down testing is an integration testing approach where component at the top of hierarchy is tested first, with low level components that are simulated by stubs. These tested components are then used for testing of lower level components. This process will be repeated till all lower level components are tested.

Ans: Total quality management is a organizations commitment towards development of a process to achieve high quality and customer satisfaction.