| Item |
Description |
| ITIL |
IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a consistent and comprehensive documentation of best practice for IT Service Management.
ITIL consists of a series of books giving guidance on the provision of quality IT services, and on the accommodation and environmental facilities needed to support IT. |
| Inference |
New knowledge inferred from existing facts. |
| Inference engine |
Software that provides the reasoning mechanism in an expert system. In a rule based expert system, typically implements forward chaining and backward chaining strategies. |
| Infrastructure |
The organisational artifacts needed to perform testing, consisting of test environments, test tools, office environment and procedures. |
| Inheritance |
The ability of a class to pass on characteristics and data to its decendants. |
| Input |
A variable (whether stored within a component or outside it) which is read by the component |
| Input Domain |
The set of all possible inputs |
| Input Value |
An instance of an input |
| Integration testing |
Testing performed to expose faults in the interfaces and in the interaction between integrated components. |
| Intelligent Agent |
Software that is given a particular mission, carries out that mission, and then reports back to the user. |
| Interface testing |
Integration testing where the interfaces between system components are tested. |
| Isolation testing |
Component testing of individual components in isolation from surrounding components, with surrounding components being simulated by stubs. |
| Item |
The individual element to be tested. There usually is one test object and many test items. |
