| ABBREVIATION | FULL FORM |
| AD | Application Development |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| DNS | Domain Name Servers |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization |
| SERPs | Search Engine Results Pages |
| SERPs | Search Engine Results Pages |
| Href | Hyperlink |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DHTML | Dynamic HyperText Markup Language |
| EULA | End User License Agreement |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages ; Java Server Programming |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| XHTML | Extensible HyperText Markup Language |
| Acronyms and abbreviations in software Development |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACS | Access Control Server |
| AICPA | American Institute of Certified Public Accountants |
| AICPA SGP | AICPA Standard of Good Practice |
| AICPA TSC | AICPA Trust Services Criteria |
| AMC | Average Method Complexity |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| AQAP | Allied Quality Assurance Publication |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
| ASBDC-US | Association of Small Business Development Centers |
| ARS | EAutomated Reasoning Systems |
| ASL | Action Specification Language |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| ATP | Acceptance Test Procedure |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| BITS | Framework: Managing Technology Risk for Information Technology Service Provider Relationships |
| BNF | Backus–Naur Form |
| BOGSAT | Bunch of Guys Sitting Around a Table |
| BPM | Business Performance Measure |
| BSA | Business Software Alliance |
| CACM | Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery |
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CBO | Coupling Between Object Classes |
| CCM | CORBA Component Model |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| TLD | Top-level domain(.com,.uk,.org,.ext..) |
| CCTLD | Country code top-level domain(.co.in, .co.uk, ext...) |
| WWW | world wide web |
| CFC | Central Flow Control |
| CGF | Corporate Governance Framework |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CIAO | Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office |
| CIS | Center for Internet Security |
| COBIT | Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies |
| COCOMO | Constructive Cost Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COSO | Committee on Sponsoring Organizations |
| CSE | Communications Security Establishment |
| CWM | Common Warehouse Metamodel |
| DACC | Design Assertion Consistency Checker |
| DCL | DEC Control Language |
| DEF STAN | Defense Standard |
| DFD | Dataflow Diagram |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security (U.S.) |
| DIT | Depth of Inheritance Tree |
| DMP | Deficiency Management Plan |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DSDM | Dynamic Systems Development Method |
| DSI | Delivered Source Instruction |
| DSML | Domain-Specific Modeling Language |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry (UK) |
| EDEM | Expectation-Driven Event Monitoring |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ETA | Event Tree Analysis |
| ZIP | Compressed file archive ( InfoZIP - PKZip - WinZip) |
| RAR | Roshal Archive (WinRAR compressed file format; file extension) |
| ETSI | European Telecom Standards Institute |
| FMEA | Failure mode and effective analysis |
| FMECA | Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis |
| FSM | Finite State Machine |
| FSR | Financial Services Roundtable |
| FTA | Fault Tree Analysis |
| GAISPC | Generally Accepted Information Security Principles Committee |
| GAPP | Generally Accepted Principles and Practices |
| GASSP | Generally Accepted System Security Principles |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out |
| HIPAA | Health Information Portability and Accountability Act |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IAIP | Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection (Directorate of the DHS) |
| ICAEW | Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales |
| ICE | In-Circuit Emulator |
| IDEF | Military equivalent of SADT |
| IDL | Interface Description Language |
| IIA | The Institute of Internal Auditors |
| IIOP | Internet Inter ORB Protocol |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| ISACA | The Information Systems Audit and Control Association |
| ISAPI | Internet Server Application Programming Interface |
| ISF | Information Security Forum |
| ISG | Information Security Governance |
| ISSA | Information Systems Security Association |
| ITCG | Information Technology: Control Guidelines 1998 |
| ITGIG | IT Governance Implementation Guide |
| ITT | Initial Training Time |
| ITT | Invitation To Tenders |
| J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| KDSI | 1000 DSIs |
| KPQM | Key Performance Quality Measure (aka BPM) |
| LCSAJ | Linear Code Sequence and Jump |
| LDRA | Liverpool Data Research Associates |
| LISI | Levels of Information Systems Interoperability |
| MDA | Model-Driven Architecture |
| MDD | Model-Driven Development |
| MOD | Ministry of Defense — (UK) |
| MOF | Meta-Object Facility — (In UML ) |
| MPI | Merchant server Plug-In |
| NCSS | Non-Commented Source Statements |
| NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology |
| NOC | Number of Children |
| NSAPI | Netscape Server Application Programming Interface |
| OCT | Operationally Critical Threat |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OMT | Object Modeling Technique |
| PCA | Performance and Coverage Analyzer |
| PCAOB | Public Company Accounting Oversight Board |
| PCS | Partnering for Cyber Security |
| PIM | Platform-Independent Model |
| PIPEDA | Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act |
| POF | Probability of Failure |
| PSI | Platform-Specific Implementation |
| QMS | Quality Management System |
| QOS | Quality of Service |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RFC | Request for Change |
| RFC | Response for a Class |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| RSS | Rich Site Summary |
| SADT | Systems Analysis and Design Technique |
| SC | Security Checklist |
| SCA | Source Code Analyzer |
| SCA | Source Code Analyzer |
| SCR | Software Change Request |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SEI | Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| SME | Subject Matter Expert |
| SNAC | Systems and Network Attack Center |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOX | Sarbanes–Oxley Act |
| SPEC | Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| STT | Subsequent Training Time |
| TCB | Trusted Computing Base |
| TOE | Target of Evaluation |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration |
| UML | Universal Modeling Language |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| UTC | Usability-Test Candidate |
| UTCS | UTC Score |
| VAF | Value Adjustment Factor |
| VEE | Virtual Execution Environment |
| WMC | Weighted Methods per Class |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XP | eXtreme Programming |
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| Database Testing used by Oracle and Abbreviaton related |
| RAT | Real Application Testing |
| SPA | SQL Performance Analyzer |
| ATS | Oracle Application Testing Solution |
| STS | SQL Tuning Set |
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| Abbreviations in Software Testing |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery. |
| AFIPS | American Federation of Information Processing Societies. |
| AIAT | Artificial Intelligence Applications Testing. |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| STS | SQL Tuning Set |
| AMC | Average Method Complexity |
| AQAP | Allied Quality Assurance Publication |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ASTF | Automated Software Test Framework |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATP | Acceptance Test Procedure |
| ASTF | Automated software test framework |
| ATLM | Automated testing lifecycle methodology |
| ATRT | Automated test and retest Q |
| ATG | Automated test generator |
| ATLM | Automated testing lifecycle methodology |
| AUT | Application under test |
| BCS | British Computer Society |
| BERT | Bit Error Test (Diagnostic Tests) |
| BIST | Built-in self-test (Diagnostic Tests) |
| BS | British Standard |
| BONDING | Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group |
| BR | Business Requirement |
| BRS | Business Requirement Specification |
| BS7925-1 | British Standard BS 7925-1 Vocabulary of terms in software testing |
| BVA | Boundary Value Analysis |
| CA | Configuration accounting |
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CC | Configuration control |
| CDR | Critical design review |
| CE | Critical error |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CISP | Cardholder information security program |
| CI | Configuration item |
| CID | Configuration identification |
| CM | Configuration management |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integrated |
| CMP | Configuration management plan |
| CMT | Configuration Management Tool |
| COA | Cost of achievement |
| COPS | Common Open Policy Service |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| COF | Cost of failure |
| CR | Change Request |
| CRC | Class, Responsibility, Collaboration |
| COQ | cost of quality |
| CRUD | Create, Read, Update, Delete |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DDD | Database design document |
| DDS | Data distribution service |
| DBA | Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation |
| DDS | Digital Data System |
| DES | Data -Encryption Standard |
| DEF | Defense Standard |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security (U.S.) |
| DDD | Detailed Design Document |
| DFD | Data Flow Diagram |
| DOD | Department Of Defense (USA) |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DRE | Defect Removal Efficiency |
| DSDM | Dynamic Systems Development Methodology |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry —(UK) |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
| ERD | Entity Relationship Diagram |
| ETSI | European Telecom Standards Institute |
