Software Testing Glossary

The degree to which a component, system or process meets specified requirements and/or user/customer needs and expectations.

Part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled.

A feature or characteristic that affects an item’s quality.

The operational techniques and activities, part of quality management, that are focused on fulfilling quality requirements.

A special milestone in a project.

Coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to quality.

A risk related to a quality attribute.

A matrix describing the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or process.

Type of testing consisting in raising an input signal continuously until the system breaks down.

Development of tests using a black box method, in which test cases are chosen to match the functional cross-section, usually using an algorithm of pseudo-random selection.