Software Quality Control Nomenclature:

- Verifying: comparing the code predictions

- Validating: Comparing the prediction of code with test data

- Version Testing: Comparing output of the current version with output of the previous version

- Installation Testing: Comparing the result with newly installed code to the sample result code

- Development Code: Code tested only by the software developer.

- Alpha Code: Testing of the software product internally by selected users.

- Beta Code: Code testing internally by a large numbers of users.

- Released Code: Well tested and documented code that is officially distributed.