Test Analysis and Design Flashcards
Acceptance Criteria
The criteria that a component or system must satisfy in order to be accepted by a user, customer, or other authorized entity.
Acceptance Test-driven Development
A collaboration-based test-first approach that defines acceptance tests in the stakeholders’ domain language.
Black-box Test Technique
A test technique based on an analysis of the specification of a component or system.
Boundary Value Analysis
A black-box test technique in which test cases are designed based on boundary values.
Branch Coverage
The coverage of branches in a control flow graph.
Checklist-based Testing
An experience-based test technique in which test cases are designed to exercise the items of a checklist.
Collaboration-based Test Approach
An approach to testing that focuses on defect avoidance by collaborating among stakeholders.
Coverage
The degree to which specified coverage items are exercised by a test suite, expressed as a percentage.
Coverage Item
An attribute or combination of attributes derived from one or more test conditions by using a test technique.
Decision Table Testing
A black-box test technique in which test cases are designed to exercise the combinations of conditions and the resulting actions shown in a decision table.
Equivalence Partitioning
A black-box test technique in which test conditions are equivalence partitions exercised by one representative member of each partition.
Error Guessing
A test technique in which tests are derived on the basis of the tester’s knowledge of past failures, or general knowledge of failure modes.
Experience-based Test Technique
A test technique based on the tester’s experience, knowledge and intuition.
Exploratory Testing
An approach to testing in which the testers dynamically design and execute tests based on their knowledge, exploration of the test item and the results of previous tests.
State Transition Testing
A black-box test technique in which test cases are designed to exercise elements of a state transition model.
