Testing Terminology (Glossary)

Acceptance testing

Ad hoc testing

Agile testing

Alpha testing

Back-to-back testing

Beta testing

Big-bang testing

Black-box testing

Black-box test design technique

Blocked test case

Bottom-up testing

Boundary value

Boundary value analysis

Branch testing

Business process-based testing

Capture/playback tool

Certification

Code coverage

Compliance testing

Component integration testing

Condition testing

Conversion testing

Data driven testing

Database integrity testing

Defect

Defect masking

Defect report

Development testing

Driver

Equivalence partitioning

Error

Error guessing

Exhaustive testing

Exploratory testing

Failure

Functional test design technique

Functional testing

Functionality testing

Heuristic evaluation

High level test case

ISTQB

Incident management tool

Installability testing

Integration testing

Isolation testing

Keyword driven testing

Load testing

Low level test case

Maintenance testing

Monkey testing

Negative testing

Non-functional testing

Operational readiness testing

Pair testing

Peer review

Performance testing

Portability testing

Post-execution comparison

Priority

Quality assurance

Random testing

Recoverability testing

Regression testing

Requirements-based testing

Re-testing

Risk-based testing

Severity

Site acceptance testing

Smoke test

Statistical testing

Stress testing

Stub

Syntax testing

System integration testing

System testing

Test automation

Test case specification

Test design specification

Test environment

Test harness

Test log

Test management tool

Test oracle

Test plan

Test strategy

Test suite

Testware

Thread testing

Top-down testing

Traceability

Usability testing

Use case

Use case testing

Unit test framework

Validation

Verification

Vertical traceability

Volume testing

Walkthrough

White-box testing