Software Testing Glossary

Structure of a component or a system determined by the number, type, and the interrelationship of the component parts.

Function of testing of libraries of configuration items, such as standards compliance.

An element of configuration management, which consists of assessment, coordination, approval or rejection, as well as changes to configuration after formal substantiate of identifying the configuration.

A group of people responsible for the assessment and approval or disapproval of proposed changes to configuration items, and for ensuring that proposed changes will be done.

An element of configuration management consisting of selecting the configuration items for the system and fixing its functional and physical characteristics in technical documentation.

It is combination of hardware and/or software designed to manage the configuration and considered in the process of configuration management as a separate entity.

It is science, applying technical and administrative guidance and control for: identification and documenting functional and physical characteristics of a configuration element, control of changes to those characteristics, records and reports on the status of implementation of the changes, and also check of the compatibility with the specified requirements.

Tool providing support for identification and control of configuration items, their status in the context of changes and versions, and release of baselines consisting of configuration items.

Testing technique which determines minimal and optimal configuration of hardware and software, and the effect of adding or modifying resources such as memory, disk drives and CPU.

The process of testing that an implementation conforms to the specification on which it is based.