I saw that is somehow popular to create sometimes a 101 list, so I though I would create one myself.

The list is about the terms encountered, most of them in testing folklore,job ads, some relevant some not, but in general words related to testing.

1. Tester

2. QA

3. Test Case

4. Test Plan

5. Selenium

6. Automated Test

7. Pyhon

8. Programming experience

9. Agile

10. White Box

11. Black Box

12. Grey Box

13. Verification

14. Validation

15. SQA

16. GUI testing

17. Unit Testing

18. Integration Testing

19. System Testing

20. Regression Testing

21. Acceptance Testing

22. Alpha Testing

23. Beta Testing

24. Performance Testing

25. Load Testing

26. Stability Testing

27. Usability Testing

28. Security Testing

29. PEN (Penetration) Testing

30. Internationalization and Localisation

31. Destructive Testing

32. Smoke Testing

33. Ad-hoc Testing

34. Waterfall

35. Test Cycle

36. V-model

37. Tools

38. Exploratory Testing

39. Pass

40. Fail

41. Input

42. Output

43. Testing Team

44. Test Team Lead

45. QA Lead

46. Testing methods

47. Associate tester

48. Junior Tester

49. Senior Tester

50. Specifications

51. Documentation

52. Bug

53. Bug Report

54. Bug Tracker

55. Jira

56. Bugzilla

57. QTP

58. Test Run

59. Coverage

60. ISTQB

61. ISEB

62. Certification

63. Test Specialist

64. Check

65. Values

66. Oracle

67. Algorithm

68. Heuristic

69. Statistic

70. Model

71. State

72. Step-by-step description

72. Expected result

73. Actual Result

74. Test Suite

75. Test Summary

76. Test Scenario

77. Test Procedure

78. SUT (System under test)

79. Test harness

80. executed tests

81. Test execution engine

82. Test script repository

83. Manual Testing

84. Assumption

85. Session based testing

86. Path

87. Test environment

88. User acceptance testing

89. Risk

90. Test estimation

91. Test configuration

92. Test results

93. Investigation

94. Error

96. Windows and Linux environments

97. Test Analist

98. Test Phase

99. Test Design

100. Fix

101. Test Experience

Well I might have duplicated or forget some important ones but this are pretty common terms used when referring to testing. It might not be in the same context but they are there and maybe it shouldn’t be.

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1. Albert Gareev says:

   July 14, 2010 at 1:11 pm

   Couldn’t find “Software Quality” in the first 10

   As well, You can keep going with the following.

   Stress Testing, as you mentioned Load Testing
   Sanity Testing, as you mentioned Smoke Testing
   Sapient Testing, as you mentioned Manual Testing
   Defect and Issue, since you mentioned Bug
   WATIR, since you mentioned Selenium
   TestComplete, since you mentioned QTP

   …and so on.

   Names of the recognized leaders in testing industry would be a nice fit, too.

   Good luck!

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2. Eusebiu Blindu says:

   July 14, 2010 at 1:18 pm

   @ Albert Gareev

   Thanks Albert. Yeah I did actually as an exercise. I went more with the job ads then saw other links in wikipedia and go through there. With names of industry I wanted to insert some of the most popular, but it was more a desire to insert like 80 percent “bad” terms or term used without real value or without their meaning and 20 percent “good” terms.

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