Glossary

End-to-end test

Also called: E2E test

A full validation that traverses the process from the portal request through to the report, covering execution, service levels, notifications, closure and survey.

A full validation that traverses the process from the portal request through to the report, covering execution, service levels, notifications, closure and survey. It must be closed with a record signed by the process owner.

Walking the whole process, from request to report, finds a class of failure component tests never see: the ones that appear in the seams between systems and between departments.

Related terms

Ex-ante simulation

Testing designed time thresholds against the real or observed distribution of cases before activating them.

Executable configuration

The materialization of the design on the platform: states, activities, forms, transitions, rules, related data, assignments and notifications.

Five-dimension validation

The minimum scope of integral testing: functional, data, rules, objective and evidence.

Impact matrix

The analysis of which artifacts a change affects, which tests must be repeated and what must be re-approved.