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Glossary of Software QA/Testing
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Testing
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(1)The process of operating a system or component under specified conditions, observing or recording the results, and making an evaluation of some aspect of the system or component.
(2) The process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions, i.e. bugs, and to evaluate the features of the software items.
Acceptance Testing
Testing conducted to determine whether or not a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and to enable the customer to determine whether or not to accept the system. Contrast with testing, development; testing, operational.
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Formal testing conducted to determine whether or not a system satisfies its acceptance criteria—enables an end user to determine whether or not to accept the system.
Boundary value Testing
A testing technique using input values at, just below, and just above, the defined limits of an input domain; and with input values causing outputs to be at, just below, and just above, the defined limits of an output domain.
Top-down Testing
An integration testing technique that tests the high-level components first using stubs for lower-level called components that have not yet been integrated and that stimulate the required actions of those components.
Error-based Testing
Testing where information about programming style, error-prone language constructs, and other programming knowledge is applied to select test data capable of detecting faults, either a specified class of faults or all possible faults.
Partition Testing
This method categorizes the inputs and outputs of a class in order to test them separately. This minimizes the number of test cases that have to be designed.
To determine the different categories to test, partitioning can be broken down as follows:
- State-based partitioning - categorizes class operations based on how they change the state of a class
- Attribute-based partitioning - categorizes class operations based on attributes they use
- Category-based partitioning - categorizes class operations based on the generic function the operations perform
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