Software testing/glossary

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[edit] Anomaly

In software testing an anomaly is everything that differs from expectation. This expectation can result from a document or also from a persons notion or experiences. Also an anomaly can be a feature or an usability problem, because the testobject may be correct regarding the specification - but it can be improved. Another possibility for an anomaly is that a tester executed the testcase wrong and therefore the expected result is also wrong.

see here for more info.

(see IEEE 1044-1993: Standard Classification for Software Anomalies., page 1, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, USA, 1994, ISBN 1-55937-383-0)

[edit] Software

Is more than just source code. There belongs also: programs, procedures and documentation, and data for the concerning processing on a computer system. We (the tutors of this course) count also any testware.

(see IEEE 610-1990: The collection of computer programs, procedures and data, together with possibly associated documentation necessary to understand, install and use it.)

[edit] Testware

Including any kind of products, which is helpful for testing. Especially persons from the testing field produce these:

test plans, test cases, test reports, anomaly reports, input files/scripts for test tools, ...

They all should be reusable and therefore managed by configuration management.