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The exit criteria that a component or system must satisfy in order to be accepted by user,
customer, or other authorized entity. - CORRECT ANSWERS Acceptance Criteria
Formal testing with respect to user needs, requirements, and business processes conducted
to determine whether or not a system satisfies the acceptance criteria and to enable the
user, customer or other authorized entity to determine whether or not to accept the system.
- CORRECT ANSWERS Acceptance Testing
The capability of the software product to provide the right or agreed results or effects with
the needed degree of precision. - CORRECT ANSWERS Accuracy
User or any other person or system that interacts with the system under test in a specific
way. - CORRECT ANSWERS Actor
The behavior produced/observed when a component or system is tested. - CORRECT
ANSWERS Actual Result
Testing carried out informally; no formal test preparation takes place, no recognized test
design technique is used, there are no expectations for results and arbitrariness guides the
test execution activity - CORRECT ANSWERS Ad Hoc Testing
A statement on the values that underpin agile software development. The values are:
-individuals and interactions over processes and tools
-working software over comprehensive documentation
-customer collaboration over contract negotiations
-responding to change over following a plan. - CORRECT ANSWERS Agile Manifesto
A group of software development methodologies based on iterative incremental
deveolpment, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-
organizing cross-functional teams. - CORRECT ANSWERS Agile Software Development
,Simulated or actual operational testing by potential users/customers or an independant test
team at the developers site but outside the development organization. Alpha testing is often
employed for off-the-shelf software as a form of internal acceptance testing. - CORRECT
ANSWERS Alpha Testing
Testing the code which enables communication between different processes, programs
and/or systems. API testing often involves negative testing, e.g., to validate the robustness of
error handling. - CORRECT ANSWERS API (application programming interface) Testing
Directed and focused attempt to evaluate the quality, especially reliability, of a test object by
attempting to force specific failures to occur. See negative testing. - CORRECT ANSWERS
Attack
A path by which the original input to a process(e.g. data) can be traced back through the
process, taking process output as a starting point. This facilitates defect analysis and allows a
process audit ti be carried out. - CORRECT ANSWERS Audit Trail
Testware used in automated testing, such as tool scripts. - CORRECT ANSWERS Automated
Testware
The degree to which a component or system is operational and accessible when required for
use. Often expressed as a percentage. - CORRECT ANSWERS Availability
Testing in which two or more variants of a component or system are executed with the same
inputs, the outputs compared, and analyzed in cases of discrepancies. - CORRECT ANSWERS
Back-to-Back Testing
A specification or software product that has been formally reviewed or agreed upon, that
thereafter serves as the basis for further development, and that can be changed only
through a formal change process. - CORRECT ANSWERS Baseline
A sequence of one or more consecutive executable statements containing no branches.
Note: a node in a control flow graph represents a basic block. - CORRECT ANSWERS Basic
Block
,A set of test cases derived from the internal structure of a component or specification to
ensure that 100% of a specified coverage criterion will be achieved. - CORRECT ANSWERS
Basis Test Set
The response of a component or system to a set of input values and preconditions. -
CORRECT ANSWERS Behavior
(1) A standard against which measurements or comparisons can be made. (2) A test that is
used to compare components or systems to each other or to a standard as in (1) - CORRECT
ANSWERS Benchmark Testing
Software developed specifically for a set of users or customers. The opposite is off-the-shelf
software. - CORRECT ANSWERS Bespoke Software
A superior method or innovative practice that contributes to the improved performance of
an organization under given context, usually recognized as the best by other peer
organizations. - CORRECT ANSWERS Best Practices
Operational testing by potential and/or existing customers/users at an external site not
otherwise involved with the developers, to determine whether or not a component or
system satisfies the customer/user needs and fits within the business process. Beta testing is
often employed as a form of external acceptance testing for off-the-shelf software in order
to acquire feedback from the market. - CORRECT ANSWERS Beta Testing
An integration testing approach in which software elements, hardware elements, or both are
combined all at once into a component or an overall system, rather than in stages. See also
integration testing. - CORRECT ANSWERS Big-bang Testing
Procedure to derive and/or select test cases based on an analysis of the specification, either
functional or non-functional, of a component or system without reference to its internal
structure. - CORRECT ANSWERS Black Box Test Design Technique
Testing, either functional or non-functional, without reference to the internal structure of
the component or system. - CORRECT ANSWERS Black Box Testing
A test case that cannot be executed because the preconditions for its execution are not
filled. - CORRECT ANSWERS Blocked Test Case
, An incremental approach to integration testing where the lowest level components are
tested first, and then used to facilitate the testing of higher level components. This process is
repeated until the component at the top of the hierarchy is tested. See also integration
testing. - CORRECT ANSWERS Bottom-up Testing
An input value or output value which is on the edge of an equivalence partition or at the
smallest incremental distance on either side of an edge, for example the minimum or
maximum value of a range. - CORRECT ANSWERS Boundary Value
A black box test design technique in which test cases are designed based on boundary
values. - CORRECT ANSWERS Boundary Value Analysis
The percentage of boundary values that have been exercised by a test suite. - CORRECT
ANSWERS Boundary Value Coverage
See boundary value analysis. - CORRECT ANSWERS Boundary Value Testing
A basic block that can be selected for execution based on a program construct in which one
of two or more alternative program paths is available e.g. case jump, go to, if-then-else. -
CORRECT ANSWERS Branch
The percentage of branches that have been exercises by a test suite. 100% branch coverage
implies both 100% decision coverage and 100% statement coverage. - CORRECT ANSWERS
Branch Coverage
A white box test design technique in which test cases are designed to execute branches. -
CORRECT ANSWERS Branch Testing
A device or storage area used to store data temporarily for differences in rates of data flow,
time or occurrence of events, or amounts of data that can be handled by the devices of
processes involved in the transfer or use of the data - CORRECT ANSWERS Buffer
A memory access failure due to the attempt by a process to store data beyond the
boundaries of a fixed length buffer, resulting in overwriting of adjacent memory areas or the
raising of an overflow exception. - CORRECT ANSWERS Buffer Overflow
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