Software Testing Dictionary

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A

• Automated Software Testing
• Audit
• Assertion Testing
• Anomaly
• Arc Testing
• API Testing
• Alpha Testing
• All-pairs Testing
• Agile Testing
• Age Testing
• Ad Hoc Testing
• Actual Outcome
• Active Testing
• Accessibility Testing
• Acceptance Testing

B

• Business Requirement
• Business Process
• Build Validation
• Bug
• Breadth Testing
• Branch Testing
• Boundary Testing
• Bottom Up Testing
• Black box Testing
• Binary Portability Testing
• Big-Bang Testing
• Beta Testing
• Benchmark Testing
• Behavior Testing
• Bebugging
• Basis Test Set
• Basis Path Testing
• Baseline Artifacts
• Backward Compatibility Testing

C

• Cyclomatic Complexity
• Coverage Items
• Correctness
• Conversion Testing
• Control Flow Path
• Context Driven Testing
• Conformance Testing
• Configuration Testing
• Condition Coverage Testing
• Concurrency Testing
• Compliance Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Comparison Testing
• Code Free Testing
• Code Driven Testing
• Code-Based Testing
• Code Walkthrough
• Code Review
• Code Inspection
• Code Freeze
• Code Coverage
• Cause-Effect Graph
• Capture/Replay Tool
• Capability Maturity Model

D

• Dynamic Testing
• Durability Testing
• Domain Testing
• Documentation Testing
• Development Environment
• Destructive Testing
• Depth Testing
• Dependency Testing
• Delta Release
• Defect Life Cycle
• Defect Logging and Tracking
• Defect
• Decision Coverage Testing
• Debugging
• Database Testing
• Data Flow Testing
• Data Driven Testing
• Data Integrity Testing

E

• Exploratory Testing
• Expected Outcome
• Exit Criteria
• Exhaustive Testing
• Error Seeding
• Error Guessing
• Error
• Equivalence Partitioning Testing
• Entry Criteria
• Endurance Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• Emulator

F

• Fuzz Testing
• Functional Testing
• Functional Requirements
• Functional Decomposition
• Feature Testing
• Feasible Path
• Fault injection Testing
• Fault
• Failure
• Failover Testing

G

• GUI Software Testing
• Grey Box Testing
• Gorilla Testing
• Globalization Testing
• Glass Box Testing

H

• Hybrid Integration Testing
• Heuristics
• Harness

I

• Issues
• Isolation Testing
• Inter Systems Testing
• Internationalization Testing
• Interface Testing
• Integration Testing
• Install/Uninstall Testing
• Inspection
• Infeasible Path
• Independent testing
• Incremental Testing
• Implementation Testing

K

• Known Issues
• Key Performance Indicator
• Keyword Driven Testing

L

• Loop Testing
• Logic Coverage Test
• Localization Testing
• Load Testing
• Load Generator
• LCSAJ Testing

M

• Mutation Testing
• Monkey Testing
• Modularity Driven Testing
• Modified Condition Testing
• Model Based Testing
• Manual Testing
• Maintainability

N

• Non-functional Testing
• Negative Testing

O

• Orthogonal Array Testing
• Operational Testing

P

• Prototype Testing
• Progressive Testing
• Process Cycle Test
• Priority
• Predicted Outcome
• Precondition
• Post Condition
• Positive Testing
• Portability Testing
• Performance Testing
• Penetration Testing
• Peer Review
• Path Testing
• Passive Testing
• Partial Test Automation
• Parallel Testing
• Pairwise Testing
• Pair Testing

Q

• Quality Management
• Quality Control
• Quality Assurance

R

• Root Cause
• Risk Management
• Risk
• Review
• Retesting
• Result
• Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Requirements Based Testing
• Requirements
• Reliability Testing
• Release Note
• Release Candidate
• Regression Testing
• Recovery Testing
• Random Testing

S

• System Under Test
• System Testing
• System Integration Testing
• Syntax Testing
• Symbolic Execution
• Stub
• Structured Walkthrough
• Structural Testing
• Stress Testing
• Storage Testing
• Statistical Testing
• Static Testing
• State Transition
• Stability Testing
• Software Requirement Specification
• Soak Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Simulation
• Security Testing
• Script
• Schedule
• Scenario Testing
• Scalability Testing
• Sanity Testing
• Safety Testing

T

• Traceability
• Total Quality Management
• Top Down Integ. Testing
• Thread Testing
• Test Tools
• Test Strategy
• Test Steps
• Test Plan
• Test Maturity Model
• Test Management
• Test Execution
• Test Environment
• Test Driver
• Test Driven Development
• Test Data Management
• Test Data
• Test Completion Matrix
• Test Completion Report
• Test Completion Criterion
• Test Suite
• Test Case Design Technique
• Test Case
• Test Bed
• Test Basis
• Test Automation
• Test Approach
• Technical Review

U

• User Interface Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Use Case Testing
• Usability Testing
• Unreachable Code
• Unit Testing

V

• Vulnerability Testing
• Volume Testing
• Virtual Users
• Verification Testing
• Validation Testing
• V Model

W

• Workflow Testing
• White box Testing
• Web Application Testing

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