Software Test Data Glossary Definition

Term Software Test Data
Definition

Software Test Data is data prepared or selected to exercise software behavior during manual testing, automated testing, validation, or troubleshooting.

Context & Usage

Test data may include normal cases, boundary values, invalid values, anonymized production-like data, security cases, and regulated validation evidence. This is distinct from machine-learning test data, which evaluates a trained model on held-out examples.

Related concepts include Unit Testing, Regression Testing and Test Case.

Categories Knowledge Management and Content Governance, Software Development and Programming, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Access Management