Draft Glossary
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Acceptance Testing: Planned evaluation by a customer (and / or customer proxy) to determine whether a system satisfies their expectations.
Acceptance Criteria: Articulated or explicit customer expectation(s).
Requirement: a capability that must be met or possessed by the software in order to satisfy the customer's or user's expectations
Functional Test: A procedure to verify a required software capability or feature
Para-Functional Test: A procedure to verify an aspect of software beyond capability or features (such as reliability, usability, scalability, security, performance, installability, compatibility, portability, etc.)
Acceptance test: A procedure to verify that an acceptance criteria is met.
Customer: The person or ?company? representative who will acquire ownership of the software system.
Customer Proxy: A designated representative of the customer, who can fill the role of the customer as needed.
User: The person who will interact with the completed and/or deployed software system.
Heuristic: an informal method to discover more information about a problem; a rule-of-thumb
Readiness Testing: Planned evaluation by the delivery team to prepare for acceptance testing.