IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey. (After ieee.org)
ISTQB: International Software Testing Qualification Board
AUT: Application under Test
SUT: System under Test
UAT: User Acceptance Test
API: Application Programming Interface (known as API Testing)
BVT: Build Verification Test (after ISTQB Glossary)
CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration
CASE: Computer Aided Software Engineering (after ISTQB Glossary)
CAST: Computer Aided Software Testing (after ISTQB Glossary)
CLI: Command-Line Interface (known as CLI Testing)
COTS: Commercial Off-the-shelf (after ISTQB Glossary)
CCB: Configuration Control Board
CCB: Change Control Board
CTP: Critical Testing Processes
XSS: cross-site scripting
FDP: Fault Detection Percentage
DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
DOS: denial of service
EMTE: Equivalent Manual Test Effort
FMEA: Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
FMECA: Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis
FTA: Fault Tree Analysis
FPA: Function Point Analysis
GQM: Goal Question Metric
GUI: Graphical User Interface (known as GUI Testing)
IDS: Intrusion Detection System
LCSAJ: Linear Code Sequence And Jump (After ISTQB Glossary)
SSH: Secure Shell
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures
MTTR: Mean Time To Repair
MBT: Model-based Testing
RUP: Rational Unified Process
XP: Extreme Programming – is a software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. (After Wiki)
IDEAL: Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting and Learning – is an organizational improvement model that serves as a roadmap for initiating, planning, and implementing improvement actions.
RACI: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed. It’s a matrix describing the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or process. It is especially useful in clarifying roles and responsibilities. (After ISTQB Glossary)
SMART: A methodology whereby objectives are defined very specifically rather than generically. SMART is an acronym derived from the attributes of the objective to be defined: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.
DDP: Defect Detection Percentage – the number of defects found by a test phase, divided by the number found by that test phase and any other means afterwards.
DLL: Dynamic Link Library. It is a kind of file that contains specific code that many programs can share. (theo Lifewire)
PDCA: Plan-Do-Check-Act. It is a repetitive four-stage model for continuous improvement (CI) in business process management. (theo techtarget)
SPI: Software Process Improvement (after CMMI)
STEP: Systematic Test and Evaluation Process
TMM: Testing Maturity Model
TMMi: Test Maturity Model integration
TPA: Test Point Analysis
TPG: Test Process Group (after CMMI)
TDD: Test-driven Development
DDD: Data-driven Development
DDD: Database Design Document
DDD: Detailed Design Document
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure (after CMMI)
UAT: User Acceptance Test
ST: System Testing
CI: Continuous Improvement
CI: Configuration Item
CR: Change Request
COQ: Cost of Quality
DOM: Document Object Model
ORD: Object Relationship Diagram
QA: Quality Assurance
QC: Quality Control
QMS: Quality Management System
SDK: Software Development Kit
SRR: Software Requirements Review
V&V: Verification and Validation
UML: Unified Modeling Language
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
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