Glossary
Our glossary page provides definitions of key terms and concepts in the fields of coding, testing and AI.
C
- Canary Testing
- CAST
- Cat (Contract Acceptance Testing)
- Change Failure Rate
- Chaos Testing
- CI/CD
- Clean Code
- Cloud-Based Testing
- Code Analysis
- Code Churn
- Code Coverage
- Code Debugging
- Code Dependency Analysis
- Code Generation
- Code Integrity
- Code Obfuscation
- Code Quality
- Code Quality Measurement
- Code Reliability
- Code Reusability
- Code Smell
- Code Splitting
- Code Versioning
- Compatibility Testing
- Component Integration Testing
- Component Tests
- Concurrency Testing
- Container Orchestration
- Context-Aware Code Reviews
- Continuous Merge
- Continuous Performance Engineering
- Continuous Testing
- COTS
- Cross Browser Testing
- Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Cross-Site Scripting
- CSS Testing
- Cucumber Testing
- Cyclomatic Complexity
D
- DAST (Static and dynamic application security testing)
- Data-Driven Testing
- Decision Coverage
- Decision Table Testing
- Defect Density
- Defect Tracking
- Developer Experience Index (DXI)
- Developer Portal
- Developer Self-Service
- DevOps Test Automation
- DevRels (Developer Relations)
- Documentation as code
- Dynamic Code Analysis
S
- Sandwich Integration Testing
- Sanity Testing
- SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
- Scalability Testing
- Scriptless Test Automation
- SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)
- Secure Code Review
- Secure Coding
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle
- Security Testing in Software Testing
- Service Virtualization
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Shift Right
- Shift-left Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Soak Testing
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- Software Dependency Management
- Software Engineering Intelligence
- Software Extensibility
- Software Portability
- Software Quality Management
- Software Testability
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- Software Traceability
- Source Code Management
- SPACE Framework
- Specification-Based Testing
- Spike Testing
- Sprint Goal
- Stability Testing
- State Transition Testing
- Statement Coverage
- Static Testing
- STRESS Testing
- Structural Testing
- Synthetic Monitoring
- System Integration Testing (SIT)
T
- Technical Debt
- Test Analysis
- Test Automation Framework
- Test Case Management
- Test Case Prioritization
- Test Completion
- Test Data Generation
- Test Driven Development
- Test Environment
- Test Execution
- Test Fixture
- Test Harness
- Test Infrastructure
- Test Log
- Test Maintenance
- Test Maturity Model (TMM)
- Test Observability
- Test Plan
- Test Runner
- Test Scenario
- Test Script
- Test Suite
- Testing Pyramid
- Throughput in Performance Testing
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