Software Testing Glossary

Testing performed by people who are co-located with the project team but are not fellow employees.

Type of an equal analysis based on visual inspection of the documents to find errors.

Quality assurance work that focuses on what customers will need to do to install and set up the new software successfully.

It is the software ability to be installed in a certain environment.

It is the process of software installability testing.

Instructions provided in any medium, which help the user to carry out the installation process.

Software on any medium that helps to perform the installation process. Generally the wizard performs the installation process, informs about the results of installation and gives an opportunity to select the variant of installation.

Insertion of additional code into the program in order to gather information about program runtime behavior. For example, to measure the code coverage.

Software tool for equipping of control instruments.

A special type of test “to smoke” for taking a decision, whether component or system is ready for further detailed software testing.