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For questions concerning proper naming of events, activities, practices, or tools used in SQA. Using a proper terminology helps team collaboration and hence improves the overall quality of a Product.

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Term for accumulated hacks making code maintenance too expensive

Consider Ward Cunningham's technical debt metaphor. It isn't exactly what you describe. Technical debt is more the accumulation of hacks and workarounds, even if the accumulated expense is not yet "to …
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Is this a good simplification of fake object types?

Your summaries are fine. Alas, I don't think they'll help you avoid confusion when you talk to other people. If people in a conversation are using the words differently, you'll have to sort out the m …
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Am I tester or just checker?

Preface about my biases: I don't find the term "checking" evocative, and I don't find the distinction between checking and testing helpful. Given that... First, the word only suggests that checking i …
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Is my test a perf unit functional smoke test or something else?

Categories can help. Categories can help with some things. You might use categories to help indicate: Who will write or run the tests. For example, unit tests are generally written by developers (an …
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