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How would you test a search feature?

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Scenario

Your interview prompt

A knowledge base lets users search articles by title, body, tags, and author. Results show highlighted matches, relevance order, filters, pagination, and a no-results suggestion state.

Manual QA Pro · Module 2 of 9Foundation

Skill outcome

Test design and data coverage

Design coverage for relevance, filters, permissions, pagination, empty states, and changing indexed data.

You will produce

A layered search coverage model

Senior signals to demonstrate

  • Useful oracles
  • Permission boundaries
  • Quality under scale

List flows, risks, edge cases, data conditions, UX, security, API/backend, and performance concerns.

Tip: a stronger answer usually mixes happy path, negative cases, state changes, data, backend, UX, accessibility, and risk.

How to structure your answer

Happy pathNegative casesData rulesSecurity/API risksUX/performance