QA Dictionary

The QA & Testing Glossary

Master the vocabulary of quality assurance. From Alpha testing to Zero-day exploits, explore our comprehensive A-Z guide.

A

3 Terms

A/B Testing
Acceptance Criteria
API Testing

B

2 Terms

Backlog
Baseline

C

4 Terms

Change Request (CR)
CI/CD Pipeline
Code Coverage
Critical Bug

D

3 Terms

Data-Driven Testing
Defect Density
Definition of Done (DoD)

E

3 Terms

End-to-End (E2E) Testing
Equivalence Partitioning
Exploratory Testing

F

3 Terms

Factory Pattern
Failure Analysis
Functional Testing

G

3 Terms

Garbage Collection (GC)
Gherkin
Governance (QA)

H

3 Terms

Happy Path
Heuristic Testing
Hotfix

I

3 Terms

Impact Analysis
Incident Management
Integration Testing

J

3 Terms

Jenkins
Job Description (QA)
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

K

2 Terms

Kanban
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

L

3 Terms

Linting
Load Testing
Logging (Test)

M

3 Terms

Master Test Plan (MTP)
Mocking
Mutation Testing

N

3 Terms

Negative Testing
Node.js (in QA)
Non-Functional Testing

O

1 Terms

Object Repository

P

3 Terms

Page Object Model (POM)
Pair Testing
Performance Testing

Q

3 Terms

Quality Assurance (QA)
Quality Control (QC)
Quality Gates

R

3 Terms

Regression Testing
Risk-Based Testing (RBT)
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

S

3 Terms

Security Testing
Shift-Left Testing
Smoke Testing

T

3 Terms

T-Shaped Tester
Test Case
Test Strategy

U

3 Terms

Unit Testing
Usability Testing
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

V

3 Terms

V-Model
Validation
Verification

W

3 Terms

Waterfall Model
WebDriver (W3C Standard)
White-Box Testing

X

3 Terms

X-Ray Vision (QA Intuition)
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
XPath (XML Path Language)

Y

2 Terms

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)
Yield (Resource Management)

Z

3 Terms

Zero-Bug Policy
Zombie Process (Automation)
Zone Testing