Software Testing Glossary

Type of testing in which the tests are carried out to the specimen’s failure, in order to understand a specimen’s structural performance or material behavior under different loads.

Formal or informal testing conducted during the implementation of a component or system, usually in the development environment by developers.

The phase within the ideal model where it is determined where one is, relative to where one wants to be.

Testing the quality of the documentation, for example user manuals or installation guides.

Set, from which correct input and / or output data can be selected.

A black box test design technique that is used to identify efficient and effective test cases when multiple variables can or should be tested together.

White-box testing technique which contains checkings that the program accepts only valid input.

A software component or test tool that replaces the component that provides control and / or call of the component or system.

The process of evaluation of behaviors, such as performance of memory, load of the central processing unit of the system or component during execution.

Tool that provides information about the state of software code during execution.