60 Glossary

QA and Software Testing Glossary

60 QA, automation, API, accessibility and development terms explained clearly.

API

API is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Assert

Assert is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Automação de testes

Automação de testes is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

BDD

BDD is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Boundary value analysis

Boundary value analysis is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Bug

Bug is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Caso de teste

Caso de teste is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

CI/CD

CI/CD is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Cobertura

Cobertura is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Contrato de API

Contrato de API is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Critério de aceite

Critério de aceite is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Dados de teste

Dados de teste is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Defeito

Defeito is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Definition of Done

Definition of Done is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Dublê de teste

Dublê de teste is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

E2E

E2E is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Equivalence partitioning

Equivalence partitioning is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Evidência

Evidência is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Exploratory testing

Exploratory testing is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Fake

Fake is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Feature flag

Feature flag is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Flaky test

Flaky test is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Gherkin

Gherkin is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Idempotência

Idempotência is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Integração

Integração is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

JSON Schema

JSON Schema is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Mock

Mock is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Mutation testing

Mutation testing is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Observabilidade

Observabilidade is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

OpenAPI

OpenAPI is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Pairwise

Pairwise is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Performance testing

Performance testing is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Pirâmide de testes

Pirâmide de testes is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Plano de testes

Plano de testes is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Pré-condição

Pré-condição is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

QA

QA is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Regressão

Regressão is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Requirement traceability

Requirement traceability is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

REST

REST is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Risk-based testing

Risk-based testing is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Sanity test

Sanity test is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Selector CSS

Selector CSS is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Severidade

Severidade is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Shift left

Shift left is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Shift right

Shift right is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Smoke test

Smoke test is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Sprint

Sprint is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

State transition testing

State transition testing is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Stub

Stub is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Test charter

Test charter is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Test data masking

Test data masking is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Test strategy

Test strategy is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Testability

Testability is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Trace

Trace is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Unit test

Unit test is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Usabilidade

Usabilidade is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Valor limite

Valor limite is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

Visual regression

Visual regression is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

WCAG

WCAG is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.

XPath

XPath is a software quality and development concept. Use it with context, risk and observable outcomes rather than as an isolated metric or ritual.