Acronyms & Abbreviations Related to Software Testing
ACM Association for Computing Machinery. AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies AIAT Artificial Intelligence Applications Testing ANSI American National Standards Institute http://www.ansi.org/ AMC Average Method Complexity AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Publication ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers ASTF Automated Software Test Framework ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATP Acceptance Test Procedure ASTF Automated software test framework ATLM Automated testing lifecycle methodology ATRT Automated test and retest ATG Automated test generator ATLM Automated testing lifecycle methodology AUT Application under test
BCS British Computer Society BERT Bit Error Test (Diagnostic Tests) BIST Built-in self-test (Diagnostic Tests) BS British Standard BONDING Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group BR Business Requirement BRS Business Requirement Specification. BS7925-1 British Standard BS 7925-1 Vocabulary of terms in software testing BVA Boundary Value Analysis
CA configuration accounting CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering CC configuration control CDR critical design review CE critical error CERT Computer Emergency Response Team CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol CISP Cardholder information security program CI Configuration item CID Configuration identification CM Configuration management CMM Capability Maturity Model CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integrated CMP Configuration management plan COA Cost of achievement COPS Common Open Policy Service CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf COF cost of failure CR Change Request CRC Class, Responsibility, Collaboration COQ cost of quality CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DDD Database design document DDS Data distribution service DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation DDS Digital Data System DES Data -Encryption Standard DEF Defense Standard DHS Department of Homeland Security (U.S.) DDD Detailed Design Document DFD Data Flow Diagram DOD Department Of Defense (USA) DOM Document Object Model DRE Defect Removal Efficiency DSDM Dynamic Systems Development Methodology DTI Department of Trade and Industry —(UK)
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association EIA Electronic Industries Association ERD Entity Relationship Diagram ETSI European Telecom Standards Institute
FDD Functional Design Document FDD Feature driven development - software development process. It is one of a number of Agile methods for developing software. FVT Function verification test FA functional audit FAQ Frequently Asked Questions FTP File Transfer Protocol FDA Food and Drug Administration FnPt Function point FC Function Count FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act —(U.S.) FP Function Point FTC Federal Trade Commission —(U.S.)
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile GUI Graphical User Interface
HCM Hardware configuration management HIPAA Healthcare Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HIPO Hierarchy, Input, Processing, Output
IDE Integrated Development Environment IDD Interface design document IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IDL Interface design language IRC Internet relay chat IPsec Internet Protocol Security ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISO International Organization for Standards
JAD Joint Application Development JTC1 Joint Technical Committee 1
KLOC Thousands of lines of code
LCL Lower control limit LCSAJ Linear Code Sequence And Jump (a software analysis method) LOC Lines of code
MDD Model-driven development (agile model-driven development - AMDD) MOD Ministry of Defence —(UK) MoSCoW M - MUST have this; S - SHOULD have this if at all possible; C - COULD have this if it does not affect anything else; W - WON'T have this time but WOULD like in the future. MTBF Mean Time Between Failure MTTF Mean Time To Fail MTTR Mean Time To Repair MTTCF Mean time to critical failure
NCSA National Cyber Security Alliance NFR Nonfunctional requirements NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NBS National British standard
ORD Object Relationship Diagram OCM Operational configuration management OSI Open Systems Interconnection
PA Physical audit PDR Preliminary design review PERT Program Evaluation and Review technique Diagram PIR Postimplementation review PCRTS Problem and Change Request Tracking System PIM Platform-Independent Model PIPEDA Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIM Platform-independent model POF Probability of Failure POST Power- On Self - Test (Diagnostic Tests) PSI Platform-Specific Implementation PT Problem Ticket PTR Problem trouble report
QA Quality Assurance QC Quality Control QMS Quality Management System QoS Quality of Service
RAD Rapid Application Development RAT Real Application Testing [Abbreviation used by Oracle] RCA Root cause analysis RTM Requirements traceability matrix RFC Request for Change RFC Request for comments RFP Request for Proposal RMI Remote Method Invocation ROI Return on Investment RIB Reflexive User Interface Builder RTM Requirements traceability matrix
SADT Systems Analysis and Design Technique SC Security Checklist SCA Source Code Analyzer SCR Software Change Request SDK Software Development Kit SC Standards committee SDLC Software development life cycle SDP Software development plan SEI Software Engineering Institute SG Standards group SIR System Investigation Report SLC Software life cycle SQS Software quality system SQSP Software quality system plan SRR Software requirements review SDD System and software design document SSH Secure Shell SOA Service-oriented architecture STAF Software testing automation framework Std standard (IEEE designation) STEP Systematic Test and Evaluation Process STL Software testing lifecycle STR Software trouble report STR System trouble report SUT System Under Test
TCB Trusted Computing Base TCDY Test case design yield TDD Test-driven development TLS The Transport Layer Security TOE Target of Evaluation TQC Total quality control TTCN Testing and Test Control Notation TTCN-1 Tree and Tabular Combined Notation version 1 TTM Test traceability matrix TRR Test readiness review
UCL upper control limit UDF unit development folder UML Unified Modelling Language UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UML TP UML Testing Profile URI Uniform Resource Identifier URL Uniform Resource Locator USM User-based Security Model UTC Usability-Test Candidate
XP eXtreme Programming VE Virtual environment V&V Verification and validation VNC Virtual network computing
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