As a tester of many years I’ve often been victim of the fabled interview question “How would you test…” followed by some object plucked from the realms of imagination.
These things have ranged from toasters, to phones, to chocolate bars, to one person who asked how I would test the temperature of the water in their glass (to this day I can’t get my head around what they were after).
When interviewing others I’ve prefered to avoid such questions in favour of asking directly how to test web services and apis. My question to the community is what things have you been asked to ‘test’ and do people find these questions useful when performing interview assessments?