Accessibility
20 terms
WCAG, ARIA and assistive-tech testing concepts.
AccessibilityAccessibility AuditAccessibility TestingAccessible Name
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The vocabulary of quality.
309 testing terms in plain English, written for practitioners mid-task. Pick a category to dive in, or search any term.
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AI & LLM Testing
31 terms
Testing LLM-powered systems — evals, grounding, prompt safety and non-deterministic behaviour.
Agent observabilityAgentic testingAgentic WorkflowAI Testing
API Security
11 terms
OWASP API Top 10 permission and auth-flow terms.
Access TokenAuthorizationBOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization)JWT
API Testing
29 terms
Request/response, contract and integration testing terms.
API MockingAuthenticationContract TestingCORS
Automation
24 terms
End-to-end, unit, framework and CI execution concepts.
Architecture Decision Record (ADR)AssertionAuto-waitingCondition Coverage
CI/CD
14 terms
Pipeline, deployment and release-gating terms.
ArtifactBlue-Green DeploymentBuildCanary Deployment
General
30 terms
Cross-cutting QA fundamentals that don't belong to one tool.
Code CoverageDaylight Saving Time (DST)Defect DensityDefect Leakage
Infrastructure
2 terms
Environment and tooling infrastructure terms.
ContainerDocker
Manual Testing
27 terms
Exploratory, scripted and session-based human testing.
Ad-hoc TestingAlpha TestingBeta TestingBoundary Value Analysis
Methodology
15 terms
BDD, TDD and the test-design techniques behind them.
ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development)BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)Chaos EngineeringModel-Based Testing
Mobile Testing
15 terms
Testing native, hybrid and mobile-web apps across devices — platforms, gestures, permissions and offline behaviour.
Android TestingANR (Application Not Responding)AppiumBiometric Authentication
Performance
23 terms
Load, stress and latency under real-world traffic.
Apache JMeterBaseline TestingCachingCapacity Planning
Product Management
16 terms
Delivery, metrics and prioritisation terms QA touches.
AARRR metrics (Pirate metrics)Acceptance criteriaCohort analysisJobs to be Done (JTBD)
Security
23 terms
App and data security concepts QA engineers verify.
Access ControlAudit LogCookieCSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Test Data
8 terms
Creating, managing and protecting the data tests run against — fixtures, seeds, synthetic data and masking.
CSV (Comma-Separated Values)Data MaskingData-Driven TestingSeed Data
Testing
4 terms
Broad testing terms pending recategorisation.
ImpactProbability (in risk-based testing)RiskTraceability
Version Control
7 terms
Git workflow terms for automation repositories.
BranchCherry-pickCommitGit Tag
Web Automation
10 terms
Selectors, waits and the browser-control surface.
ActionabilityAutocompleteBrowser ContextData Visualization