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Microsoft Interview Question for Software Engineer in Tests






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Some of the simple test cases are
1)Check whether src is not already null
2) check whether there is enough space for dest
to store all the characters in src to dest
3)Check if memory address dest doesn't overlap with the source

- krg85 March 29, 2009 | Flag Reply
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1: src = NULL and dst = NULL
2: src = NULL and dst != NULL
3: src != NULL and dst = NULL
4: src = dst
5: src and dst overlap
6: src and dst are normal values
7: src is smaller in space than dst
8: dst is smaller in space than src

- Balaji April 01, 2009 | Flag Reply
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Hi Balaji, I have a question about the below test cases
7: src is smaller in space than dst
8: dst is smaller in space than src

Here we are given the starting address for source and dest. How can we check the space of the src OR dest?

- Sadineni.Venkat April 22, 2009 | Flag Reply
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size of dest must have defined before you call to copy from source to destination. If the source size is greater, the function should not copy at all. There should not be truncation.

- neo August 28, 2009 | Flag
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Check for BOF

- Anonymous August 03, 2009 | Flag Reply
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strcpy is a banned function at msft

- karthik September 30, 2009 | Flag Reply
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They don't need Mt Fuji moved either. What is your point?

- LOLer October 01, 2009 | Flag
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Good one ;)

- Karachi is AWESOME January 11, 2010 | Flag
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LOLer-> strcpy is widely used by hackers. They do by overflowing the buffer for dest.
that is why strncpy is used instead of strcpy.

- HAHAHA November 18, 2009 | Flag Reply
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You lack sense of humour.

- Mahesh March 26, 2010 | Flag


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