Cheat sheet
Delta Testing Glossary
This glossary contains all the terms necessary for getting your company to speak the language and understand the potential of delta testing.
PDF · 4 pages · August 24, 2021
You say delta testing, a colleague says field testing, and someone else says beta testing or dogfooding. The terms vary across departments, and it helps when everyone is speaking the same language.
The glossary defines the common terms in one place, from the three kinds of feedback testers give to the scores that show how a project is going, and it lists the other names that go with many of them. Share it with stakeholders so everyone works from the same definitions.
What’s inside
Four testing use cases
Competitive, employee, product iteration, and product release testing are each defined, along with the other names they go by, such as dogfooding or field testing.
Issues, ideas, and praise
It defines the three key feedback types: problems testers ran into, ideas that would improve their experience, and the features they adored.
Scores that show project health
Delta Health, Impact, and Success scores are explained, along with feedback impact, tester impact, and satisfaction scores, so you can say how a project is doing.
