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Every profession has its own vocabulary.To learn a profession, the first and crucial step is to master its vocabulary.The entire knowledge of a profession is compressed and kept it in its vocabulary.
Take our own software testing profession, while communicating with our collegues, we frequently use terms like 'regression testing', 'System testing', now imagine communicating the same to a person who is not in our profession or who doesn't understand our testing vocabulary, we need to explain in detail each and every term .Communication becomes so difficult and painful.To speak the language of testing, you need to learn its vocabulary.
Find below a huge collection of testing vocabulary
Affinity Diagram
A group process that takes large amounts of language data, such as developing by brainstorming, and divides it into categories
Audit
This is an inspection/assessment activity that verifies compliance with plans, policies and procedures and ensures that resources are conserved.
Take our own software testing profession, while communicating with our collegues, we frequently use terms like 'regression testing', 'System testing', now imagine communicating the same to a person who is not in our profession or who doesn't understand our testing vocabulary, we need to explain in detail each and every term .Communication becomes so difficult and painful.To speak the language of testing, you need to learn its vocabulary.
Find below a huge collection of testing vocabulary
Affinity Diagram
A group process that takes large amounts of language data, such as developing by brainstorming, and divides it into categories
Audit
This is an inspection/assessment activity that verifies compliance with plans, policies and procedures and ensures that resources are conserved.
Baseline
A quantitative measure of the current level of performance.
Benchmarking
Comparing your company's products, services or processes against best practices or competitive practices, to help define superior performance of a product,service or support processes.
Black-box Testing
A test technique that focuses on testing the functionality of the program component or application against its specifications without knowlegde of how the system constructed.
A quantitative measure of the current level of performance.
Benchmarking
Comparing your company's products, services or processes against best practices or competitive practices, to help define superior performance of a product,service or support processes.
Black-box Testing
A test technique that focuses on testing the functionality of the program component or application against its specifications without knowlegde of how the system constructed.
Boundary value analysis
A data selection technique in which test data is chosen from the "boundaries" of the input or output domain classes, data structures and procedure parameters. Choices often include the actual minimum and maximum boundary values, the maximum value plus or minus one and the minimum value plus or minus one.
Branch Testing
A test method that requires that each possible branch on each decision be executed on at least once.
Brainstorming
A group process for generating creative and diverse ideas.
Bug
A catchall term for all software defects or errors.
A data selection technique in which test data is chosen from the "boundaries" of the input or output domain classes, data structures and procedure parameters. Choices often include the actual minimum and maximum boundary values, the maximum value plus or minus one and the minimum value plus or minus one.
Branch Testing
A test method that requires that each possible branch on each decision be executed on at least once.
Brainstorming
A group process for generating creative and diverse ideas.
Bug
A catchall term for all software defects or errors.
Checkpoint(or verification point)
Expected behaviour of the application which must be validated with the actual behaviour after certain action has been performed on the application.
Client
The customer that pays for the product received and receives the benefit from the use of the product.
Condition Coverage
A white-box testing technique that measures the number of or percentage of decision outcomes covered by the test cases designed.100% condition coverage would indicate that every possible outcome of each decision had been executed at least once during testing.
Configuration Management Tools
Tools that are used to keep track of changes made to systems and all related artifacts. These are also known as version control tools.
Configuration testing
Testing of an application on all supported hardware and software platforms.This may include various combinations of hardware types, configuration settings and software versions.
Completeness
A product is said to be complete if it has met all requirements.
Consistency
Adherence to a given set of rules.
Correctness
The extent to which software is free from design and coding defects. It is also the extent to which software meets the specified requirements and user objectives.
Cost of Quality
Money spent above and beyond expected production costs to ensure that the product the customer receives is a quality product. The cost of quality includes prevention, appraisal, and correction or repair costs.
Conversion Testing
Validates the effectiveness of data conversion processes, including field-field mapping and data translation.
Customer
The individual or organization, internal or external to the producing organization that receives the product.
Cyclomatic complexity
The number of decision statements plus one.
Debugging
The process of analysing and correcting syntactic, logic and other errors identified during testing.
Decision Coverage
A white-box testing technique that measures the number of - or percentage - of decision directions executed by the test case designed. 100% Decision coverage would indicate that all decision directions had been executed at least once during testing. Alternatively each logical path through the program can be tested.
Decision Table
A tool for documenting the unique combinations of conditions and associated results in order to derive unique test cases for validation testing.
Defect Tracking Tools
Tools for documenting defects as they are found during testing and for tracking their status through to resolution.
Desk Check
A verification technique conducted by the author of the artifcat to verify the completeness of their own work. This technique does not involve anyone else.
Dynamic Analysis
Analysis performed by executing the program code.Dynamic analysis executes or simulates a development phase product and it detects errors by analyzing the response of the product to sets of input data.
Entrance Criteria
Required conditions and standards for work product quality that must be present or met for entry into the next stage of the software development process.
Expected behaviour of the application which must be validated with the actual behaviour after certain action has been performed on the application.
Client
The customer that pays for the product received and receives the benefit from the use of the product.
Condition Coverage
A white-box testing technique that measures the number of or percentage of decision outcomes covered by the test cases designed.100% condition coverage would indicate that every possible outcome of each decision had been executed at least once during testing.
Configuration Management Tools
Tools that are used to keep track of changes made to systems and all related artifacts. These are also known as version control tools.
Configuration testing
Testing of an application on all supported hardware and software platforms.This may include various combinations of hardware types, configuration settings and software versions.
Completeness
A product is said to be complete if it has met all requirements.
Consistency
Adherence to a given set of rules.
Correctness
The extent to which software is free from design and coding defects. It is also the extent to which software meets the specified requirements and user objectives.
Cost of Quality
Money spent above and beyond expected production costs to ensure that the product the customer receives is a quality product. The cost of quality includes prevention, appraisal, and correction or repair costs.
Conversion Testing
Validates the effectiveness of data conversion processes, including field-field mapping and data translation.
Customer
The individual or organization, internal or external to the producing organization that receives the product.
Cyclomatic complexity
The number of decision statements plus one.
Debugging
The process of analysing and correcting syntactic, logic and other errors identified during testing.
Decision Coverage
A white-box testing technique that measures the number of - or percentage - of decision directions executed by the test case designed. 100% Decision coverage would indicate that all decision directions had been executed at least once during testing. Alternatively each logical path through the program can be tested.
Decision Table
A tool for documenting the unique combinations of conditions and associated results in order to derive unique test cases for validation testing.
Defect Tracking Tools
Tools for documenting defects as they are found during testing and for tracking their status through to resolution.
Desk Check
A verification technique conducted by the author of the artifcat to verify the completeness of their own work. This technique does not involve anyone else.
Dynamic Analysis
Analysis performed by executing the program code.Dynamic analysis executes or simulates a development phase product and it detects errors by analyzing the response of the product to sets of input data.
Entrance Criteria
Required conditions and standards for work product quality that must be present or met for entry into the next stage of the software development process.
Testing Vocabulary