ACM Association for Computing Machinery

AI artificial intelligence

AI-T artificial intelligence-based system testing ontology

ANN artificial neural network

API application programming interface

APM application performance management

AR/MR augmented and mixed reality

BDD behaviour-driven development

BLO Basic Linux Ontology

BoK body of knowledge

CI/CD continuous integration/continuous deployment

CORA core ontology for robotics and automation

CQ competency question

CRS cloud robotics systems

CSV comma separated values

DL description logic

DOLCE descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering

DX digital experiences

EDA exploratory data analysis

EO enterprise ontology

ETL extract, transform and load

EU European Union

GAEN Google Apple Exposure Notifications

GDPR General Data Protection Regulation

GPS global positioning system

GPX GPS exchange format

GUI graphical user interface

HAL hardware abstraction layer

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HRPA human resource participation

I4.0 Industry 4.0

IA intelligent agent

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IoT Internet of Things

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISTQB International Software Testing Qualifications Board

IT information technology

ITOM IT operations management

IVS intelligent vision system

KR knowledge representation

LTP Linux Test Project

MAS multi-agent system

MBT model-based testing

ML machine learning

MSE mean square error

NFT non-fungible token

NIST National Institute of Science and Technology (US)

NLP natural language processing

ODE ontology-based software development environment

OSOnto operating system ontology

OWL Web Ontology Language

PAE process and activity execution

PRPA procedure participation

RDF Resource Description Framework

ROCO cloud-robotic-system domain ontology

ROI return on investment

ROoST Reference Ontology on Software Testing

RPA resource participation

SDLC software development life cycle

SoS System of Systems

SQL Structured Query Language

SRT site reliability testing

STOWS Software Testing Ontology for Web Service

STVO spatio-temporal, visual domain ontology

SUMO suggested upper merged ontology

SWEBOK Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

SwTO^I Software Test Ontology Integrated

TaaS Testing-as-a-Service

TOVE Toronto virtual enterprise

UFO unified foundational ontology

UI user interface

UK United Kingdom

UML Unified Modeling Language

US United States

UX user experiences

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WPPA work product participation

WWW World Wide Web

XAI explainable artificial intelligence

XML Extensible Markup Language