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Acceptance Testing:Testing conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether to accept asoftware product. Normally performed to validate the software meets a set of agreedacceptance criteria.

Black Box Testing:Testing based on an analysis of the specification of a piece of software withoutreference to its internal workings. The goal is to test how well the componentconforms to the published requirements for the component.

Data Objects: An input or output that is user visible. Data Objects are document objects consistingof factual information normally arranged into datafiles (1.2.10) or tables (1.2.10.1)which are used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation.

Debugging:

Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, ordefects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making itbehave as expected.

Desk-checking:Checking source code created with an editor before compiling it to check fortypographical and other errors.

Domain:Domain of a variable is a (mathematical) set that includes all possible values of avariable of a function.

Dynamic testing:Dynamic Testing (or dynamic analysis) is testing software through executing it. Aterm used in software engineering to describe the testing of the dynamic behavior ofcode.

Formal Inspections:(Also known as Fagan Inspection) Formal Inspection refers to a structured processof trying to find defects in development documents, programming code,specifications, designs and others artifacts during various phases of the software

development program. Fagan Inspection is a group review method used to evaluateoutput of a given process.

Firmware:Firmware is a term sometimes used to denote the fixed, usually rather small,programs that internally control various electronic devices. Typical examples rangefrom end-user products such as remote controls or calculators

Language Processor: A program that performs tasks, such as translating and interpreting, required forprocessing a specified programming language. Note: Examples of language

processors include a Fortran processor and a COBOL processor.

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Pachinko Code:Pachinko is a japanese gaming device (for gambling) used for amusement andprizes. Pachinko code as the name implies, is not predictable and not testable.

Path Sensitizing:

Choosing a set of input values to force the execution of a component to take a givenpath.

Predicate: A logical expression which evaluates to TRUE or FALSE, normally to direct theexecution path in code.

Regression (Software): A software regression is a software bug which makes a feature stop functioning asintended after a certain event (for example, a system upgrade, system patching or achange to daylight saving time).

Software Quality Assurance:Software testing is a process used to identify the correctness, completeness andquality of developed computer software.

Spaghetti code:Unstructured, or poorly structured program source code; especially code with manyGOTO statements (or their equivalent).

Static testing:Static testing (Static Analysis) takes place without running an application or itsmodules. It can include source code reviews, code inspections, and softwarewalkthroughs.

Structured programming: A style of programming in which the programmer divides his program's source codeinto logically structured chunks of code.

Test Case:The specification (usually formal) of a set of test inputs, execution conditions, andexpected results, identified for the purpose of making an evaluation of some

particular aspect of a Target Test Item.

Unachievable Path: A functionally meaningful processing path in the code for which there is nocombination of input values that will force that path to be executed.

Unreachable Code:Code for which there is no combination of input values that will cause the code to beexecuted.

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Walk-throughs:The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through thealgorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along theway.

White Box Testing: :

Testing based on an analysis of internal workings and structure of a piece of software.

Includes techniques such as Branch Testing and Path Testing

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