Testing interview questions

Scenario-style prompts with sample answer outlines. Focus is on how you would design and reason in real codebases.

  1. 01Testing strategy and tradeoffsHow do you decide what to test at the unit, integration, and UI level in a large iOS app?
  2. 02Designing for testabilityYou inherit a feature that's hard to test. How do you refactor or redesign it to make it testable without over-engineering?
  3. 03Testing asynchronous and concurrent codeHow do you reliably test async/await code and concurrency-heavy features to avoid flakiness and race conditions?
  4. 04Maintaining a healthy test suiteAs a codebase grows, test suites often become slow and brittle. How do you keep tests fast, reliable, and valuable over time?
  5. 05Balancing speed vs confidenceHow do you balance the need for fast iteration with the need for strong test coverage and confidence in releases?