Software Testing Glossary

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.

An abstract representation of calling relationships between subroutines in a program.

Five-level system describing the key elements of an effective software development process. Maturity model includes the best practices of planning, design and management of software development and support processes.

The system which describes the key elements of effective development process and product support.

Type of test execution tool, in which the input information is recorded during manual testing in order to generate automated test scripts that can be executed later.

The analysis of defects to determine their root cause.

A graphical representation used to organize and display the interrelationships of various possible root causes of a problem.