Software Testing Glossary

The smallest element of the software, which can be tested separately.

Software testing performed in order to detect defects in the interfaces and interaction between integrated components.

Description of a component’s functions in terms of its output values for certain input values under certain conditions, and the required non-functional behavior.

Software Testing of individual components.

Two or more single conditions joined by logical operators (AND, OR, XOR), for example ‘A> B AND C> 1000’.

Multi-user testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing the same application code, module or database records.

It is a Boolean expression that can be either True or False, for example A > B.

Percentage of conditions that have been tested by a set of tests. 100% condition coverage requires that each separate condition in every expression solution has been tested as True and False.

Type of software testing where each condition is executed by making it true and false, in each of the ways at least once.

Percentage of all single condition outcomes, that affect the decision condition coverage results that have been checked by the set of test scenarios. 100% condition determination coverage presupposes 100% decision condition coverage.