The following terms have been submitted as either new terms (N) or changes to current terms (C) in the Living Glossary.
Term |
Definition |
Type |
Last date for comments |
| Performance requirements | A specification of the required performance for a system/software. | N | No date set |
| Comment from Paula Cope | A detailed specification of requirement performance targets the system/software must attain which should be used to measure against when performing Performance Testing. | ||
| Performance testing | Proposed:
Testing to determine whether a system/software meets the specified performance requirements. Current: Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with specified performance requirements. |
C | No date set |
| Storage | In a computer, one
or more bytes that are used to store data.
[IEEE 610] |
N | No date set |
| Comment from Peter Morgan | Is it necessary to further potentially qualify “storage”? E.g. “The storage can be on a variety of media, internal or external, and compressed or not”. Just a thought. | ||
| Comment from Marco Giromini | Ok for me | ||
| Storage requirements | A specification of the required storage for a system/software. | N | No date set |
| Storage testing | Proposed:
Testing to determine whether a system/software meets the specified storage requirements. Current: Testing whether the system meets its specified storage objectives. |
C | No date set |
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