QA Testing

The context-driven school of software testing is flavor of Agile Testing that advocates continuous and creative evaluation of testing opportunities in light of the potential information revealed and the value of that information to the organization right now.

The process of testing that an implementation conforms to the specification on which it is based. Usually applied to testing conformance to a formal standard.

Multi-user testing geared towards determining the effects of accessing the same application code, module or database records. Identifies and measures the level of locking, deadlocking and use of single-threaded code and locking semaphores.

Testing of individual software components (Unit Testing).

A synonym for White Box Testing.

Testing the features and operational behavior of a product to ensure they correspond to its specifications. Testing that ignores the internal mechanism of a system or component and focuses solely on the outputs generated in response to selected inputs and execution conditions. or Black Box Testing.

A document that describes in detail the characteristics of the product with regard to its intended features.

A technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional hierarchy for the software.

Testing which covers all combination's of input values and preconditions for an element of the software under test.

A test case design technique for a component in which test cases are designed to execute representatives from equivalence classes.

A portion of a component's input or output domains for which the component's behaviour is assumed to be the same from the component's specification.

Testing a complete application environment in a situation that mimics real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or systems if appropriate.

Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with prolonged execution.

A device, computer program, or system that accepts the same inputs and produces the same outputs as a given system.

Testing software through executing it. See also Static Testing.

A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.

Examines an application's requirements for pre-existing software, initial states and configuration in order to maintain proper functionality.

A standard of measurement. Software metrics are the statistics describing the structure or content of a program. A metric should be a real objective measurement of something such as number of bugs per lines of code.

Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here and there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.

A white box testing technique that exercises program loops.