Software Testing Glossary

The importance of the specific defect impact to the design or operation of a component or system.

A programming language/interpreter technique for evaluating compound conditions in which a condition on one side of a logical operator may not be evaluated if the condition on the other side is sufficient to determine the final outcome.

Modeling of selected behavioral characteristics of a physical or theoretical system by another system.

The device, computer program or system used in software testing, operating or behaving similarly with defined one with the same input data.

Acceptance testing performed by users or customers on their site.

A subset of all defined/planned test cases covering the basic functionality of a component or system.

Computer programs, algorithms, documentation and data related to the computer system functioning.

The degree to which software complies or must comply with a set of stakeholder-selected software and/or software-based system characteristics which are defined to reflect the importance of the software to its stakeholders.

Period of time beginning with the inception of the concept of software and ending when the use of the software is not possible any more.

A program of activities designed to improve the performance and maturity of the organization’s software processes and the results of such a program.