Control flow graph

Term: “control flow graph”. It is the abstract representation of all the event (path) sequences in the execution of a component or system.

Cause-effect graph

Term: “cause-effect graph”. It is the graphic representation of inputs or stimuli (causes) with their associated outputs (effects), that can be used to design test cases.

Risk management

Term: “risk management”. It is the systematic application of procedures and practices to the tasks of identification, analysis, priorization and control of risks.

Test management

Term: “test management”. It is the planning, stimation, monitoring and control of the testing activities, normally by a test manager.

Problem management

Term: “problem management”. Look up defect management.

Configuration management

Term: “configuration management”. It is the discipline dealing with the application of technical and administrative management and monitoring to the identification and documentation of the physical and functional characteristics of a configuration element, monitoring their changes, logging and reporting about the state of the implementation and change process, and to...

Incident management

Term: “incident management”. Incident management is the process of recognition, research, measurements, and incident solving. The process consists in logging incidences, classifying them, and determining their impact. [IEEE 1044]

Memory leak

Term: “memory leak”. It is a defect in the dynamic memory allocation logic that causes a failure to free memory after finishing its usage, and it causes an eventual program failure due to insufficient memory.

Failure rate

Term: “failure rate”. It is the quotient of failure cases of a given category for a specific unit of measurement, such as failures for time unit, failures for transaction unit, or failures for program executions. [IEEE 610]