int Q : What if 1 M test cases are given to automate in a day

[phanindranath]

Hi

This is a simple scenario we can understand, how i can divert the questioning scenario from "automating the 1 M test cases in a day" to "how the manual approach helps in deciding the approach for the automation?". :-)

And now considering the answers that you have provided, in general, any simple application does not need so many test cases and no company will spend such a long time just to build the manual test cases unless the application is very complex. Either the application should be very complex and hence needs more test cases. If the application is very complex, then all the manual test cases needs to be executed atleast once. If only 50% of them are executed, and if the remaining test cases (in case fails) then the application cannot be stable enough to go for the automation.

So finally we can provoke the interviewer to say the whether the application is simple or complex.
Ultimately the depends upon the interviewer, but all these queries just highlights the confidence level and the various approaching strategies of us.

Hope this might have given some clarification. :-)

Thanks
Phanindra