This is a subset of the full Acutest glossary of software testing terms. This glossary was created to enable people engaged in testing to communicate with one another in a clear and concise manner.
Wherever possible the definitions for testing words come from the glossary of the British Computer Society Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST), which was used to create the Software Testing Vocabulary standard: BS 7925.
Other definitions are from or based on IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology (IEEE standard 610.12-1990) or the IEEE standard 1003.3. In some situations, the terminology and definitions have been revised and extended to provide greater clarity.
- Acceptance criteria
- Acceptance testing
- Ad-hoc testing
- Agile testing
- Alpha testing
- Assurance
- Automated software testing
- Backup and recovery testing
- Beta testing
- Black box test
- Business process testing
- Certification
- Code coverage
- Compatibility testing
- Component testing
- Configuration testing
- Conformance testing
- Contingency testing
- Conversion testing
- Coverage
- Customer acceptance testing
- Customer experience testing
- Data flow testing
- Documentation testing
- End to end testing
- Evaluation testing
- Exhaustive testing
- Exploratory testing
- Failover testing
- Feature testing
- First office application
- Functional testing
- Inspection
- Installability testing
- Installation testing
- Instrumentation
- Integrated testing
- Integration testing
- Interface testing
- Internationalisation testing
- Interoperability testing
- Isolation test
- Load testing
- Localisation testing
- Loopback testing
- Non functional testing
- Operational acceptance testing (OAT)
- Operational testing
- Operation readiness testing (ORT)
- Parallel testing
- Performance testing
- Personalisation testing
- Portability testing
- Process testing
- Product assurance testing (PAT)
- Recovery testing
- Regression testing
- Regulatory requirements testing
- Reliability testing
- Remote test
- Requirements based testing
- Review
- Risk based testing
- Scalability testing
- Security testing
- Site Acceptance Test (SAT)
- Smoke test
- Storage testing
- Stress testing
- Systems integration testing
- Systems testing
- Technical requirements testing
- Test
- Test automation
- Test centre
- Testing
- Testing automation
- Testing requirements
- Unit testing
- Usability testing
- User acceptance testing
- User test
- User testing
- UAT
- Volume testing
- Walkthrough
- White box test
On many programmes and large projects, testing will take up a significant portion of the budget. But it will receive less management attention than an activity of this size warrants.