What is Acceptance Testing?
Testing conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether to accept a
software product. Normally performed to validate the http://www.testingbrain.com/FAQS/Default.html# - - software meets a set of
agreed acceptance criteria.
What is Accessibility Testing?
Verifying a product is accessible to the people having disabilities (deaf,
blind, mentally disabled etc.).
What is Conversion Testing?
Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing systems
for use in replacement systems.
What is Cyclomatic Complexity?
A measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box
testing.
What is Data Dictionary?
A database that contains definitions of all data items defined during
analysis.
What is Data Flow Diagram?
A modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system.
What is Data Driven Testing?
Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by externally
defined data values, maintained as a file or spreadsheet. A common technique
in Automated Testing.
What is Debugging?
The process of finding and removing the causes of software failures.
What is Defect?
Nonconformance to requirements or functional / program specification
What is Dependency Testing?
Examines an application's requirements for pre-existing software, initial
states and configuration in order to maintain proper functionality.
What is Depth Testing?
A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
What is Dynamic Testing?
Testing software through executing it. See also Static Testing.
What is Emulator?
A device, computer program, or system that accepts the same inputs and
produces the same outputs as a given system.
What is Endurance Testing?
Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with prolonged
execution.
What is End-to-End testing?
Testing a complete application environment in a situation that mimics
real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network
communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or systems
if appropriate.
What is Equivalence Class?
A portion of a component's input or output domains for which the component's
behaviour is assumed to be the same from the component's specification.
What is Equivalence Partitioning?
A test case design technique for a component in which test cases are
designed to execute representatives from equivalence classes.
What is Exhaustive Testing?
Testing which covers all combinations of input values and preconditions for
an element of the software under test.
What is Functional Decomposition?
A technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional
hierarchy for the software.
What is Functional Specification?
A http://www.testingbrain.com/FAQS/Default.html# - - document that describes in detail the characteristics of the product with
regard to its intended features.
What is Functional Testing?
Testing the features and operational behavior of a product to ensure they
correspond to its specifications.
Testing that ignores the internal mechanism of a system or component and
focuses solely on the outputs generated in response to selected inputs and
execution conditions.
See also What is Black Box Testing.
What is Glass Box Testing?
A synonym for White Box Testing.
What is Gray Box Testing?
A combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies? testing a
piece of software against its specification but using some knowledge of its
internal workings.
What is High Order Tests?
Black-box tests conducted once the software has been integrated.
What is Independent Test Group (ITG)?
A group of people whose primary responsibility is software testing,
What is Inspection?
A group review quality improvement process for written material. It consists
of two aspects; product (document itself) improvement and process
improvement (of both document production and inspection).
What is Integration Testing?
Testing of combined parts of an application to determine if they function
together correctly. Usually performed after unit and functional testing.
This type of testing is especially relevant to client/server and distributed
systems.
What is Installation Testing?
Confirms that the application under test recovers from expected or
unexpected events without loss of data or functionality. Events can include
shortage of disk space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out
conditions.
What is Load Testing?
See Performance Testing.
What is Localization Testing?
This term refers to making software specifically designed for a specific
locality.
What is Loop Testing?
A white box testing technique that exercises program loops.
What is Metric?
A standard of measurement. Software metrics are the statistics describing
the structure or content of a program. A metric should be a real objective
measurement of something such as number of bugs per lines of code.
What is Monkey Testing?
Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here and
there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.
What is Negative Testing?
Testing aimed at showing software does not work. Also known as "test to
fail". See also Positive Testing.
What is Path Testing?
Testing in which all paths in the program source code are tested at least
once.
What is Performance Testing?
Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with
specified performance requirements. Often this is performed using an
automated test tool to simulate large number of users. Also know as "Load
Testing".
What is Positive Testing?
Testing aimed at showing software works. Also known as "test to pass". See
also Negative Testing.
What is Quality Assurance?
All those planned or systematic actions necessary to provide adequate
confidence that a product or service is of the type and quality needed and
expected by the customer.
What is Quality Audit?
A systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality
activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether
these arrangements are implemented effectively and are suitable to achieve
objectives.
What is Quality Circle?
A group of individuals with related interests that meet at regular intervals
to consider problems or other matters related to the quality of outputs of a
process and to the correction of problems or to the improvement of quality.
What is Quality Control?
The operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify
requirements of quality.
What is Quality Management?
That aspect of the overall management function that determines and
implements the quality policy.
What is Quality Policy?
The overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality
as formally expressed by top management.
What is Quality System?
The organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and
resources for implementing quality management.
What is Race Condition?
A cause of concurrency problems. Multiple accesses to a shared resource, at
least one of which is a write, with no mechanism used by either to moderate
simultaneous access.
What is Ramp Testing?
Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
What is Recovery Testing?
Confirms that the program recovers from expected or unexpected events
without loss of data or functionality. Events can include shortage of disk
space, unexpected loss of communication, or power out conditions.
What is Regression Testing?
Retesting a previously tested program following modification to ensure that
faults have not been introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes
made.
What is Release Candidate?
A pre-release version, which contains the desired functionality of the final
version, but which needs to be tested for bugs (which ideally should be
removed before the final version is released).
What is Sanity Testing?
Brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to determine
if its basically operational. See also Smoke Testing.
What is Scalability Testing?
Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test
gracefully handles increases in work load.
What is Security Testing?
Testing which confirms that the program can restrict access to authorized
personnel and that the authorized personnel can access the functions
available to their security level.
What is Smoke Testing?
A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software work.
Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new piece of
hardware for the first time and considering it a success if it does not
catch on fire.
What is Soak Testing?
Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time. For example,
running several times more transactions in an entire day (or night) than
would be expected in a busy day, to identify and performance problems that
appear after a large number of transactions have been executed.
What is Software Requirements Specification?
A deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral
requirements, all constraints, and all validation requirements for software/
What is Software Testing?
A set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in software.
What is Static Analysis?
Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
What is Static Analyzer?
A tool that carries out static analysis.
What is Static Testing?
Analysis of a program carried out without executing the program.
What is Storage Testing?
Testing that verifies the program under test stores data files in the
correct directories and that it reserves sufficient space to prevent
unexpected termination resulting from lack of space. This is external
storage as opposed to internal storage.
What is Stress Testing?
Testing conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the limits
of its specified requirements to determine the load under which it fails and
how. Often this is performance testing using a very high level of simulated
load.
What is Structural Testing?
Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece
of software. See also White Box Testing.
What is System Testing?
Testing that attempts to discover defects that are properties of the entire
system rather than of its individual components.
What is Testability?
The degree to which a system or component facilitates the establishment of
test criteria and the performance of tests to determine whether those
criteria have been met.
What is Testing?
The process of exercising software to verify that it satisfies specified
requirements and to detect errors.
The process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between
existing and required conditions (that is, bugs), and to evaluate the
features of the software item (Ref. IEEE Std 829).
The process of operating a system or component under specified conditions,
observing or recording the results, and making an evaluation of some aspect
of the system or component.
What is Test Automation? It is the same as Automated Testing.
What is Test Bed?
An execution environment configured for testing. May consist of specific
hardware, OS, network topology, configuration of the product under test,
other application or system software, etc. The Test Plan for a project
should enumerated the test beds(s) to be used.
What is Test Case?
Test Case is a commonly used term for a specific test. This is usually the
smallest unit of testing. A Test Case will consist of information such as
requirements testing, test steps, verification steps, prerequisites,
outputs, test environment, etc.
A set of inputs, execution preconditions, and expected outcomes developed
for a particular objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or
to verify compliance with a specific requirement.
Test Driven Development? Testing methodology associated with Agile
Programming in which every chunk of code is covered by unit tests, which
must all pass all the time, in an effort to eliminate unit-level and
regression bugs during development. Practitioners of TDD write a lot of
tests, i.e. an equal number of lines of test code to the size of the
production code.
What is Test http://www.testingbrain.com/FAQS/Default.html# - - Driver ?
A program or test tool used to execute a tests. Also known as a Test
Harness.
What is Test Environment?
The hardware and software environment in which tests will be run, and any
other software with which the software under test interacts when under test
including stubs and test drivers.
What is Test First Design?
Test-first design is one of the mandatory practices of Extreme Programming (XP).It
requires that programmers do not write any production code until they have
first written a unit test.
What is Test Plan?
A document describing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of
intended testing activities. It identifies test items, the features to be
tested, the testing tasks, who will do each task, and any risks requiring
contingency planning. Ref IEEE Std 829.
What is Test Procedure?
A document providing detailed instructions for the execution of one or more
test cases.
What is Test Script?
Commonly used to refer to the instructions for a particular test that will
be carried out by an automated test tool.
What is Test Specification?
A document specifying the test approach for a software feature or
combination or features and the inputs, predicted results and execution
conditions for the associated tests.
What is Test Suite?
A collection of tests used to validate the behavior of a product. The scope
of a Test Suite varies from organization to organization. There may be
several Test Suites for a particular product for example. In most cases
however a Test Suite is a high level concept, grouping together hundreds or
thousands of tests related by what they are intended to test.
What is Test Tools?
Computer programs used in the testing of a system, a component of the
system, or its documentation.
What is Thread Testing?
A variation of top-down testing where the progressive integration of
components follows the implementation of subsets of the requirements, as
opposed to the integration of components by successively lower levels.
What is Top Down Testing?
An approach to integration testing where the component at the top of the
component hierarchy is tested first, with lower level components being
simulated by stubs. Tested components are then used to test lower level
components. The process is repeated until the lowest level components have
been tested.
What is Total Quality Management?
A company commitment to develop a process that achieves high quality product
and customer satisfaction.
What is Traceability Matrix?
A document showing the relationship between Test Requirements and Test
Cases.
What is Usability Testing?
Testing the ease with which users can learn and use a product.
What is Use Case?
The specification of tests that are conducted from the end-user perspective.
Use cases tend to focus on operating software as an end-user would conduct
their day-to-day activities.
What is Unit Testing?
Testing of individual software components.
What is Validation?
The process of evaluating software at the end of the software development
process to ensure compliance with software requirements. The techniques for
validation is testing, inspection and reviewing
What is Verification?
The process of determining whether of not the products of a given phase of
the software development cycle meet the implementation steps and can be
traced to the incoming objectives established during the previous phase. The
techniques for verification are testing, inspection and reviewing.
What is Volume Testing?
Testing which confirms that any values that may become large over time (such
as accumulated counts, logs, and data files), can be accommodated by the
program and will not cause the program to stop working or degrade its
operation in any manner.
What is Walkthrough?
A review of requirements, designs or code characterized by the author of the
material under review guiding the progression of the review.
What is White Box Testing?
Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece
of software. Includes techniques such as Branch Testing and Path Testing.
Also known as Structural Testing and Glass Box Testing. Contrast with Black
Box Testing.
What is Workflow Testing?
Scripted end-to-end testing which duplicates specific workflows which are
expected to be utilized by the end-user.
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