Software Testing Glossary

The leader and main person responsible for the inspection or any other review process.

The percentage of all single condition outcomes that independently affect a decision outcome that have been exercised by a test case suite.

A white box test design technique in which test cases are designed to execute single condition outcomes that independently affect a decision outcome.

Software testing technique which requires creation of small, independent scripts that represent modules, sections, and functions of the application under test.

A software tool or hardware device that runs concurrently with the component or system under test and supervises, records and/or analyses the behavior of the component or system.

It is a random choice testing from a wide range of inputs by randomly pressing buttons, without taking into consideration the way the system will be used in reality.

Percentage of combinations of all single condition outcomes within one and the same operator that have been tested by a set of tests. 100% multiple condition coverage presupposes 100% condition determination coverage.

Development of tests by white box method in which test cases are designed in order to execute combinations of single condition outcomes (within the same statement).

Method of determining the set of tests completeness by measuring the degree to which a set of tests can distinguish the program from its minor variations.

Method of software testing which involves modifying programs’ source code or byte code in small ways in order to test sections of the code that are seldom or never accessed during normal tests execution.