Acronyms

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ISTQB

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International Software Testing Qualifications Board

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KDT

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Keyword Driven Testing

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REST

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Representational State Transfer

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SDLC

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Software Development Life Cycle

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SOAP

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Simple Object Access Protocol

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SUT

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System Under Test

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TAA

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Test Automation Architecture

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TAE

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Test Automation Engineer

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TAS

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Test Automation Solution

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TCP

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Transmission Control Protocol

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W3C

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World Wide Web Consortium

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XPath

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(XML Path Language): A query language for selecting nodes from an XML document

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XML

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(eXtensible Markup Language) defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable

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wrapper

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A function in a software library whose main purpose is to call another function, often adding or enhancing functionality while hiding complexity

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WebDriver

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The interface against which Selenium tests are written

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technical debt

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Additional cost of rework caused by choosing to ignore bad designs or implementations in the short term

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pesticide paradox

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A phenomenon where repeating the same test multiple times causes it to find fewer defects

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Page Object Pattern

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A test automation pattern which requires that technical logic and business logic be dealt with at different levels

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modal dialog

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A screen or box which forces the user to interact with it before they can access the underlying screen

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hook

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An interface which is introduced into a system which is created predominately to provide enhanced testability to that system

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framework

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Provides an environment for automated test scripts to execute; including tools, libraries,and fixtures

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fixture

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A test fixture is a mock object or environment used to consistently test some item, device, or piece of software

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Document Object Model

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An API that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document

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comparator

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A tool to automate the comparison of expected results against the actual results