What is Soak Testing?
Running a system at high load for a prolonged period of time. For example, running several times more transactions in an entire day (or night) than would be expected... Read more »
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What is Smoke Testing?
A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software work. Originated in the hardware testing practice of turning on a new piece of hardware for... Read more »
What is Scalability Testing?
Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test gracefully handles increases in work load. Read more »
What is Release Candidate?
A pre-release version, which contains the desired functionality of the final version, but which needs to be tested for bugs (which ideally should be removed before... Read more »
What is Ramp Testing?
Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down. Read more »
What is Race Condition?
A cause of concurrency problems. Multiple accesses to a shared resource, at least one of which is a write, with no mechanism used by either to moderate simultaneous... Read more »
What is Quality System?
The organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources for implementing quality management. Read more »
What is Quality Policy?
The overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality as formally expressed by top management. Read more »
What is Quality Management?
That aspect of the overall management function that determines and implements the quality policy. Read more »
What is Quality Control?
The operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify requirements of quality. Read more »
What is Quality Circle?
A group of individuals with related interests that meet at regular intervals to consider problems or other matters related to the quality of outputs of a process... Read more »
What is Quality Audit?
A systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements... Read more »
What is Quality Assurance?
All those planned or systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the... Read more »
What is Monkey Testing?
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. Read more »
What is Metric?
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... Read more »