Software Testing Glossary

It is a systematic assessment of the acquisition, support, development, exploitation or maintenance of software.

Testing method in which the test cases are designed and reviewed by the team before executing it.

Testing technique that involves testing of all the functions performed by the people while preparing the data and using these data for automated system.

A view of quality, whereby quality is measured by the degree to which a product or service conforms to its intended design and requirements.

Test plan, which usually covers several levels of testing.

1. The organization's opportunities in the part of effectiveness of used processes and methodologies.
2. The possibility of a software product to avoid failure as a result of defects in the software.

Degree of process improvement across a predefined set of process areas in which all goals in the set are attained.

A structured collection of elements that describe certain aspects of maturity in an organization, and aid in the definition and understanding of an organization's processes.

The arithmetic mean (average) time between failures of a system.

The arithmetic mean (average) time a system will take to recover from any failure.