Software Testing Glossary

Development of tests using a black box, in which test cases are designed on the basis of boundary values.

Percentage of boundary values that have been tested by a set of tests. 

Software testing technique in which tests are designed to include representatives of boundary values.

Mainframe, which can be selected for execution, based on the logical structure of the program, in which is accessible one of two or more alternative paths, for example, case, jump, go to, if then-else.

Percentage of branches that have been executed by test suite. 100% coverage of branches presupposes 100% statement and decision coverage.

Development of tests by white box method, in which test cases are designed in order to execute branches.

A test suite that exercises the full functionality of a product but does not test features in detail.

Device or a memory area used for temporary storage of data in order to compensate the differences in the speed of data flow, timing or frequency of events.

Memory access defect caused by the process attempts to store the data that exceed limits of buffer fixed length, resulting in adjacent memory locations overwrite or overflow exceptions evocation.

An approach to software testing in which test cases are designed on the basis of descriptions and / or knowledge of business processes.