Test

Definitions

General

A test is

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the process of exercising a product to identify differences between expected and actual behavior.

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Security

A test is a

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type of assessment method that is characterized by the process of exercising one or more assessment objects under specified conditions to compare actual with expected behavior, the results of which are used to support the determination of security control effectiveness over time.

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See also

• Acceptance test
• Acceptance test plan
• Acceptance testing
• Active security testing
• Alpha testing
• Alternate site test
• Application security testing
• Assurance testing
• Automated testing
• Basic testing
• Benchmarking
• Beta testing
• Blackbox test
• Business continuity test
• Capacity testing
• Compatibility testing
• Compliance testing
• Computer-aided testing
• Component test
• Comprehensive testing
• Computer Forensics Tool Testing
• Conformance testing
• Connectivity testing
• Contingency testing
• Covert security testing
• Crisis management test
• Developmental testing
• End-to-end testing
• External security testing
• Face Recognition Vendor Test
• Fault injection testing
• Field test
• Filtration test
• Focused testing
• Full-interruption/full-scale test
• Functional testing
• Fuzz testing
• Gamma testing
• Glassbox test
• Incremental testing‎‎
• Integration testing
• Interface testing
• Internal security testing
• Interoperability testing
• Limit check
• Live test demonstration
• Load testing
• Manual testing
• Module test
• Numeric test
• Online speed test
• Open test
• Operational acceptance test
• Operational testing
• Overt security testing
• Parallel test
• Penetration testing
• Performance testing
• Physical testing
• Postelection audit testing
• Product acceptance test
• Readiness testing
• Regression testing
• Remote access testing
• Resiliency testing
• Scalability testing
• Secret test
• Security test and evaluation
• Security testing
• Self testing
• Simulated loss of data center site test
• Simulation
• Software correctness testing
• Software testing
• Specialized testing
• Statement testing
• Stress testing
• Structured walk-through test
• System acceptance testing
• System testing
• Testbed
• Test Access Port
• Test assertion
• Test assumptions
• Test data
• Test environment
• Test facility
• Test plan
• Test readiness review
• Test scenario
• Test script
• Test strategy
• Testability
• Third-party testing
• Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment
• Transaction testing
• Unit testing
• Virtual testing
• Volume testing
• Voting system security testing
• Zero-knowledge test