Testing Terminology (Test Glossary) | Manual Testing Tutorial PDF

Testing Terminology (Test Glossary):-

1. Test Strategy
2. Test Plan
3. Test Case
4. Test Log
5. Error, Defect & Bug
6. Summary Report
7. Test Bed
8. Test Suite
9. Testing Policy
10. Testing Process
11. Testing Standard
12. Testing Measurement

1. Test Strategy:

It is a Company level document and developed by Quality Analyst. A testing strategy defines Testing approach followed by testing team
(or)
(An approach to be followed by testing team in testing a build).

2. Test Plan:

A schedule to be followed by testing team in testing.

3. Test Case:

A test condition to be applied on software build.

4.Test Log: 

A result of test case interms of passed / failed.

5. Error, Defect & Bug:

A mistake in coding is called error. This error detected by tester during testing is called defect or issue. This defect or issue accepted by programmers to resolve is called bug.

6. Summary Report:

Defines work progress
Eg: Daily reports, weekly reports and Monthly report.

7. Test Bed:

Total Testing, information and test environment is called as test bed.

8. Test Suite:

All the combination of all the different test cases is called as test suite.

9. Testing Policy:

It is a Company level Document and developed by Quality Control
Document and developed by quality control people (almost Management). The testing policy defines Testing Objective.

10. Testing Process:

Proper Planning before starts testing

11. Testing standard:

1 defect per 250 LOC (Lines of Code)
1 defect per 10 FP (Functional Points)
(Eg: No. Of Screens, (or) no. Of forms, (or) no. Of reports, no. Of queries etc.)

12. Testing Measurement:

QAM (Quality Assessment Measurements)
TMM (Test Management Measurements)
PCM (Process Capacity Measurements)
NOTE: The other name for test case document is functional test plan