CDR Critical design review
CE Critical error
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CICD or CI/CD continuous integration and continuous delivery as combined practices.
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
CMT Configuration Management Tool
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
CSFs Critical Success Factors
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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
DIKW Data-to-Information-to-Knowledge-to-Wisdom.
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
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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.)
FMEA Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
FP Function Point
FPA Function Point Analysis.
FTC Federal Trade Commission —(U.S.)
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
GUI Graphical User Interface
GTAC Google Test Automation Conference
GTA Google Test Analytics
HCM Hardware configuration management
HIPAA Healthcare Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
HIPO Hierarchy, Input, Processing, Output
HOL Higher Order Logic
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IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
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
IoT internet of things
I-P-0 Input-Process-Output
IPsec Internet Protocol Security
ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
lSLE Integrated Software Lifecycle Environment
ISO International Organization for Standards
ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
JAD Joint Application Development
JTC1 Joint Technical Committee 1
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KBSA Knowledge-Based Software Assistant
KLOC Thousands of lines of code
LCL Lower control limit
LCSAJ Linear Code Sequence And Jump (a software analysis method)
LOC Lines of code
LSRT Long-Sequence Regression Testing
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
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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
OKRs Objectives and key results
PA Physical audit
PaaS Platform as a Service
PCA Performance and Coverage Analysis
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
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QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
QMS Quality Management System
QoS Quality of Service
QAaaS QA as a service
QUES Quality Evaluation System
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
RST Reverse Semantic Traceability
RPF Record and Playback framework
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SA Structured Analysis
SaaS Software as a Service
SADT Systems Analysis and Design Technique
SCA Static Code Analysis
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
SDP Service design package
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
SKMS Service Knowledge Management System
SMIS Security Management Information System
SMARTS Software Maintenance and Regression Test System
SSH Secure Shell
SOA Service-oriented architecture
STAF Software testing automation framework
Std standard (IEEE designation)
STEP Systematic Test and Evaluation Process
START Structured Testing and Requirements Tool
STL Software testing lifecycle
STR Software trouble report
STR System trouble report
SUT System Under Test
SETs Software engineers in test
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TaaS Testing as a Service.
TCAT Test Coverage Analysis Tool
TCB Trusted Computing Base
TCDY Test case design yield
TDD Test-driven development
TDGEN Test filelData Generator
TLS The Transport Layer Security
TMM Test Maturity Model
TOE Target of Evaluation
TPA Test point analysis
TPI Test Process Improvement
TPT Time Partition Testing
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
TEMs Test engineering managers
TAP Test Automation Program
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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
VE Virtual environment
V&V Verification and validation
VNC Virtual network computing
XP eXtreme Programming
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