Acronyms and abbreviations in software testing


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 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATP Acceptance Test Procedure BCS British Computer Society 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 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 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 DTI Department of Trade and Industry —(UK) EIA Electronic Industries Association ERD Entity Relationship Diagram ETSI European Telecom Standards Institute FDD Functional Design Document 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 HIPO Hierarchy, Input, Processing, Output IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 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 LOC lines of code MDD model-driven development (agile model-driven development - AMDD) MOD Ministry of Defence —(UK) MTBF Mean Time Between Failure MTTF Mean Time To Fail MTTR Mean Time To Repair NCSA National Cyber Security Alliance NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NBS National British standard ORD Object Relationship Diagram OSI Open Systems Interconnection PA physical audit PDR preliminary design review PERT Program Evaluation and Review technique Diagram PIR postimplementation review RTM requirements traceability matrix PCRTS Problem and Change Request Tracking System PIM Platform-Independent Model PIPEDA Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act POF Probability of Failure PSI Platform-Specific Implementation PT Problem Ticket QA Quality Assurance QC Quality Control QMS Quality Management System QoS Quality of Service RAD Rapid Application Development RFC Request for Change RFC Request for comments RFP Request for Proposal RMI Remote Method Invocation ROI Return on Investment 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 SSH Secure Shell Std standard (IEEE designation) STEP Systematic Test and Evaluation Process STR software trouble report SUT System Under Test TCB Trusted Computing Base TDD Test-driven development TLS The Transport Layer Security TOE Target of Evaluation TTCN Testing and Test Control Notation 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

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