Testing Terminology

[darmstadt]

Thought so, maybe they mean the actual tool: more info

Thanks for that, I actually have it as a PDF (actually met one of the blokes when I was over in PoK last year.) You can find quite a lot at this site here. The software that I'm testing/developing actually runs on MS servers but controls zSeries boxes.

[threaded]

Kind of, I'm testing some software to work with zSeries systems so I'm using zOS as my test system.

Thought so, maybe they mean the actual tool: more info

[darmstadt]

AFAIK:
Using a (usually) automated process for breaking the application/system by giving it bad input data at some point to see if it handles it in an expected manner.

Thanks for that. I thought it was something like that.

[darmstadt]

Are you playing with z/OS?

Kind of, I'm testing some software to work with zSeries systems so I'm using zOS as my test system.

[Spacecadet]

AFAIK:
Using a (usually) automated process for breaking the application/system by giving it bad input data at some point to see if it handles it in an expected manner.

[threaded]

Are you playing with z/OS?

[darmstadt]

What the hell does 'inject' mean in testing? I keep seeing it in documents such as 'Error inject and detailed recovery scenarios are typically part of SVT' and have searched but can't find the exact meaning.