Software Testing Glossary

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.

The number or category assigned to the attribute of an entity by means of measurement.

The process of assigning of number or category to entity to describe an attribute of this entity.

It is the scale, restricting data analysis type that can be performed on it.

It is a defect in program logic of dynamic memory allocation, which causes inability to free the allocated memory after the program has finished using it, and ultimately leading to the failure of the program due to lack of memory.

Testing based on a standard set of tests, for example, a checklist, a quality standard, or a set of generalized test cases.

Measurement scale and a method used for measurement.