Glossary

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A/B Test: Refers to the way a test is conducted with different paths.
AC: Acceptance Criteria.
ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act.
ADM: Application Development Maintenance.
AKA: Acronym for Also known as.
AID: Acronym for Application Infrastructure Diagram.
API: Acronym for Application Programming Interface.
API contract: A view of an Application Programming Interface (API) as a formal agreement between the caller and the callee. Often, unit tests help define the API contract by demonstrating the expected behavior.
APM: Application Performance Management.
ARN: Amazon Resource Name.
ART: Average Response Time (term used in Profiler apps).

CLI: Command Line Interface.
CMD: Refers to a command line interface program in the Operating System, also know as Command Line Interface (CLI).
CTA: Call to Action.

ECR: Used in AWS for Elastic Container Registry, aka, Docker image registry.
ECS: Used in AWS for Elastic Container Services, which is a service to launch any Dockerized application in the AWS cloud.
EFM: Enhancement Factory Model.

Framework: A semicomplete application that provides a reusable common structure to share among applications. Developers incorporate the framework into their own applications and extend it to meet their specific needs. Frameworks differ from toolkits by providing a coherent structure rather than a simple set of utility classes. A framework defines a skeleton, and the application defines its own features to fill out the skeleton. The developer code is called appropriately by the framework. Developers can worry less about whether a design is good and focus more on implementing domainspecific functions.

JSON: (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. — Ref: JSON ORG
JSONPath: It is a query language for JSON, similar to XPath for XML. — Ref: JSONPath Syntax

Redis: It is an in-memory data structure store, used as a distributed, in-memory key–value database, cache and message broker, with optional durability. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures, such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, HyperLogLogs, bitmaps, streams, and spatial indexes.

SAP: Enterprise Resource Planning software developed by German Company SAP ERP.
SLA: Service-Level Agreement.
SI: System Integration.
SIT: System Integration Testing.

Tredir: Tredir is a IP:Geolocation service hosted in AWS. It provides a reasonably accurate geographic location of a particular IP address. Our customers teams use Tredir to improve customer experience by serving more relevant content based on geographic location (primary language, Country, state), and in some cases geofencing for content.

Unit Test: A test that examines the behavior of a distinct unit of work. A unit of work is a task that is not directly dependent on the completion of any other task. Within a Java application, the distinct unit of work is often, but not always, a single method.