Software Testing Glossary

A metric that shows progress toward a defined criterion.

Software testing used to convert data from existing systems for their use in replacement systems.

A dashboard-style representation of the status of corporate performance data.

The total cost of quality related activities, which is often split into the prevention cost, appraisal cost, internal failure cost and external failure cost.

Acronym for commercial off-the-shelf software.

Level to which a certain element of the coating was tested by test suite. It is usually expressed as a percentage.

Measuring of reached covering in relation to a given element of the covering during the test run according to predefined criteria.

It is an entity or property used as a basis for test coverage, for example, equivalence partitions or operators in code.

The tool which provides an objective measurement of what structural elements (such as statements or branches) were tested by sets of tests.

An element necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission.