General

[Jani Laakso]

This ticket may contain common definitions and other statements used on other tickets involving current sprint.

Actor definition

Actor "Tester"

• tester that knows fundamentals of programming, mostly script languages
• does not understand well Web technologies

Actor "Developer"

• Application developer that uses IT Mill Toolkit
• understands well Web technologies

Actor "Support"

• IT Mill support team creates documentation, releases products

[Jani Laakso]

Terminology

For documentational and internal purposes.

Marko, if you need to refine these, check e.g. this site http://www.geocities.com/xtremetesting/TestingDictionary.html

Product full name

• IT Mill Toolkit Testing Tools

TT

• Testing Tools

TT Server

• Testing Tools Server which stores testcases, results, launches test cases and orchestrates regression tests

AUT

• Application Under Test (typically an Toolkit application that is to be tested with TT)

AUT Client

• Web browser that contains Toolkit client-side engine (Javascript) including TT engine (TT.js)

AUT Host

• environment where AUT client is run, typically Linux or Windows virtual machine or Mac

AUT Server

• Web application that runs in any Servlet Container

AUT Client executor

• Java Web server which executes commands (mostly through JNI) on AUT Host based on request done by TT Server
• typical commands are: execute TC a in URL b, end and cleanup running / hanged TC processes

AUT Client control panel

• Small div shown on AUT client which shows progress of test case execution and allows controlling test case recording
• TODO: this term is akward, needs better name

TC

• Testcase

TC script

• Testcase script

TS

• Test suite contains multiple testcases in specific execution order

[Jani Laakso]

Replying to Jani Laakso:

=== Terminology ===

AUT Client executor * Java Web server which executes commands (mostly through JNI) on AUT Host based on request done by TT Server * typical commands are: execute TC a in URL b, end and cleanup running / hanged TC processes

Ignore above, "AUT Client executor" is now "TT Worker"

[Marko Gronroos]

Please write "test case" separately in GUI and elsewhere, not "testcase". Same for test results, etc. I think it should normally not be capitalized, except when in titles, etc.