Software Testing and Validation Key Terms [draft]

Debugging
Process
Testing
Validation
Verification

Error
Failure
Fault
Metric
Quality
metric
Review
Software quality
Software quality assurance group
Test
Test bed
Test case
Test oracle

Fault model
Feature
Precondition
Postcondition

Certification
Finite state machine
System state
Usage profile

Branch/statement adequate
Defined variable
Def-use path
Mutation adequate
Path
Used variable

Cluster
Load
Test harness
Unit
Use case

Cost driver
Feature
Goal
Milestone
Plan
Policy
Procedure
Work breakdown structure

Baseline
Milestone
Project controlling
Project monitoring

Review
Testing

Measure
Measurement
Metric
Quality attribute
Quality factor
Quality requirement

Availability
Confidence
Discriminant
Maintainability
Operational profile
Quality
Quality control
Software quality assurance
Software reliability
Trustworthiness
Usability