Testing Terminology: QA and Developer Dictionary

Systematization of key testing terms: bugs and defects, test cases and checklists, environments, releases, regression, smoke, sanity, acceptance, CI statuses, and quality metrics.

Term Map: How to talk about testing precisely

theory

Bug, defect, error, and incident: What is the difference

theory

Test Documentation: Test Case, Checklist, Suite, and Report

theory

Types of Checks: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, and Acceptance

theory

Environments, CI Statuses, and Quality Metrics

theory