Ieee 829 1998

IEEE Std 829-1998
(Revision of
IEEE Std 829-1983)

IEEE Standard for Software Test
Documentation

Sponsor

Software Engineering Technical Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 16 September 1998

IEEE-SA Standards Board

Abstract: A set of basic software test documents is described. This standard speciÞes the form and
content of individual test documents. It does notspecify the required set of test documents.
Keywords: test case specification, test design specification, test incident report, test item transmittal report, test log, test plan, test procedure specification, test summary report

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