Terms
Definitions
- Inspection: "A type of peer review that relies on visual examination of documents to detect defects, e.g. violations of development standards and non-conformance to higher level documentation. The most formal r..."
- Verification: "Confirmation, through the provision of objective evidence, that specified (system) requirements have been fulfilled."
- Verification Task: "A verification task refers to a quality assurance process step that executes a verification."
- VDI 3695: "VDI/VDE Guidelines for the engineering, evaluation, and optimization of industrial plants. This set of guideline covers individual aspects: (a) fundamentals and procedure, (b) Processes, (c) Method..."
- Validation: "Confirmation by examination and through provision of objective evidence that the
requirements for a specific intended use or application have been fulfilled"
- Test Automation Framework: "A test automation framework is essentially a set of guidelines for creating and designing test cases. It is a conceptual part of automated testing that helps testers to use resources more efficiently."
- Test Automation Framework: "A test automation Framework incorporates (a) test processes that provides guidelines for planning, creating, executing, and reporting test scenarios and test cases and (b) a tool chain that provide..."
- Quality Improvement: "The systematic approach to reduction or elimination of waste, rework, and losses in production process."
- Quality Improvement: "Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, formal approach to the analysis of practice performance and efforts to improve performance."
- Quality Assurance: "Quality assurance (QA) is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part ..."
- Model Quality Assurance: "In context of PSE, models represent the outcome of different disciplines, such as mechanics, electrics and software disciplines. In context of multi-disciplinary engineering, these models need to b..."
- Human-Based Quality Assurance: "Human-Based Quality Assurance refers to quality assurance activities, such as software inspection, reviews, or manual testing, that require human experts to execute quality assurance tasks"
- Effectiveness: "The degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved. In contrast to efficiency, effectiveness is determined without reference to costs and, whereas effi..."
- Efficiency: "The comparison of what is actually produced or performed with what can be achieved with the same consumption of resources (money, time, labor, etc.). It is an important factor in determination of p..."
- Engineering Artifact Quality: "Engineering Artifact Quality refers to quality attributes that belong to engineering artifacts, such as completeness, correctness, consistency etc. "