| Item |
Description |
| Error |
A human action producing an incorrect result |
| Error Guessing |
A test case design tecnique where the experience of the tester is used to postulate which faults might occur and to design tests specifically to expose them |
| Evaluation report |
A document produced at the end of the test process summarizing all testing activities and results. It also contains an evaluation of the test process and lessons learned. |
| Executable statement |
A statement which, when compiled, is translated into object code, which will be executed procedurally when the program is running and may perform an action on program data. |
| Exhaustive testing |
The last executable statement within a component. |
| Exit point |
The last executable statement within a component. |
| Expected outcome |
The behaviour predicted by the specification of an object under specified conditions. |
| Expert system |
A domain specific knowledge base combined with an inference engine that processes knowledge encoded in the knowledge base to respond to a user's request for advice. |
| Expertise |
Specialized domain knowledge, skills, tricks, shortcuts and rules-of-thumb that provide an ability to rapidly and effectively solve problems in the problem domain. |
