ISTQB Foundation Level
False-fail end result - ANStest end result - disorder mentioned however no illness exists in take
a look at item
Error - Mistake - ANSHuman movement produces an wrong result
Defect (computer virus, fault) - ANSFlaw in a component or gadget causing aspect or gadget to
fail to carry out required feature.
Failure - ANSDeviation of the component or system from its expected shipping, carrier or result.
Quality - ANSThe diploma to which a factor, gadget or system meets certain necessities and/or
user/customer needs and expectancies.
Risk - ANSA issue that would bring about destiny terrible effects; typically expressed as effect
and chance.
False-skip end result - ANSA check end result which fails to identify the presence of a defect
that is truly present in the take a look at item.
Testing - ANSAlso recognise as evaluation. The process along with all life-cycle activities both
static and dynamic, worried with planning, guidance, and assessment of software merchandise
and associated paintings merchandise to decide that they're in shape for motive and to detect
defects.
Requirement - ANSA situation or functionality wanted with the aid of a person to clear up a
problem or achieve an objective that must be met or possessed by using a gadget or device
aspect to fulfill a settlement, popular, specification, or other formally imposed record.
Review - ANSAn assessment of a product or challenge popularity to check discrepancies from
deliberate effects and to propose enhancements. Examples encompass control assessment,
informal review, technical evaluate, inspection, and walkthrough.
Debugging - ANSThe process of locating, studying, and getting rid of the reasons of failures in
software program.
Confirmation trying out (re-trying out) - ANSTesting that runs test cases that failed the remaining
time they have been run, in an effort to affirm the achievement of corrective actions.
Test Strategy - ANSA excessive-stage description of the take a look at tiers to be accomplished
and the checking out within the ones levels for an company or program (one or greater projects)
,Test Execution - ANSThe system of walking a check at the thing or device under check,
generating actual effects
Test technique - ANSThe implementation of the take a look at method for a selected
assignment.
Test Plan - ANSA document describing the scope, technique, assets, and agenda of intended
check sports. It identifies among others test items, the functions to be examined, the checking
out obligations, who will do every task, degree of take a look at independence, the test
surroundings, the test design strategies, and access an exit standards to be used, and the
reason for their preference, and any risks requiring contingency making plans. It is a report of
the check making plans technique.
Test monitoring - ANSA take a look at control undertaking that deals with the sports related to
periodically checking the popularity of a check project. Reports are organized that evaluate the
actuals to that which changed into deliberate.
Test condition - ANSAn item or occasion of a factor or system that could be tested by means of
one or more check cases, e.G. A characteristic, transaction, feature, satisfactory attribute, or
structural element.
Test basis - ANSAll files from which the requirements of a issue or machine may be inferred.
The documentation on which the test cases are primarily based. If a report can be amended
most effective by way of manner of formal change process, then the take a look at basis is
known as a frozen test foundation.
Test Data - ANSData the exists earlier than a test is carried out, and that affects or is affected by
the issue or gadget underneath test. Example - in a database
Coverage (take a look at coverage) - ANSThe diploma, expressed as a percentage, to which a
specified insurance item has been exercised by using a take a look at suite.
Test manner specification (test manner, take a look at script, manual check script) - ANSA
record specifying a sequence of movements for the execution of a take a look at.
Test Suite - ANSA set of several take a look at cases for a factor or system beneath test, where
the post situation of one take a look at if regularly used because the precondition for the next
one.
Incident - ANSAlso known as deviation. Any occasion occurring that requires research.
Testware - ANSArtifacts produced at some stage in the test manner required to plan, design,
and execute checks, inclusive of documentation, scripts, inputs, predicted results, set-up, and
, clean-up processes, files, databases, surroundings, and any extra software or utilities utilized in
testing.
Regression trying out - ANSTesting of a previously tested program following change to ensure
that defects have no longer been introduced or uncovered in unchanged regions of the
software, as a result of the modifications made. It is done while the software or its environment
is changed.
Exit Criteria - ANSThe set of regularly occurring and precise conditions, agreed upon with the
stakeholders, for permitting a system to be officially finished. The cause of exit standards is to
save you a mission from being taken into consideration finished whilst there are nonetheless
superb parts of the assignment which have no longer been completed. Exit standards are used
to document in opposition to and to plan whilst to stop trying out.
Test log - ANSA chronological document of applicable details about the execution of tests.
Test precis document - ANSA file summarizing testing sports and effects. It is also incorporates
an assessment of the corresponding check items towards exist standards.
Error Guessing - ANSA test layout technique where the revel in of the take a look at is used to
anticipate what defects is probably gift in the element or device under check because of
mistakes made, and to layout checks in particular to show them.
Independence of checking out - ANSSeparation of duties, which encourages the
accomplishment of objective trying out
Test policy - ANSA excessive level document describing the ideas, approach, and most
important targets regarding trying out.
Verification - ANSConfirmation by examination and thru provision of objective evidence that
distinctive necessities have been fulfilled.
Validation - ANSConfirmation by using examination and via provision of goal evidence that the
necessities for a specific intended use or application have been fulfilled.
V-version - ANSA framework to describe the software program improvement lifecycle sports
from necessities specification to preservation. The V-version illustrates how testing sports can
be included into each section of the software program improvement lifecycle.
Test level - ANSA institution of take a look at activities which are organized and managed
together. A check stage is linked to the duties in a undertaking. Examples of check ranges are
aspect take a look at, integration check, gadget test, and reputation test.
Integration - ANSThe method of combining components or structures into large assemblies.