The aim of part 1 of the standard is to give an overview of the standard and of general software testing concepts and to provide a vocabulary of software testing terms covering the entire software testing life cycle. A working draft of part 1 is currently under development. It is anticipated that this part will include (but not be limited to) the following topics:

• Introduction to software testing
• The role of verification and validation
• Testing as a heuristic
• Exhaustive testing
• Software testing in an organizational and project context
• The testing process
• Generic testing processes in the system life cycle
• Development project sub-processes and their results
• On-going maintenance and its results
• Support processes for the software development life cycle
• Risk-based testing
• Test sub-processes
• Test objectives
• Test item
• Testing of quality characteristics
• Test basis
• Retesting and regression testing
• Test techniques
• Approaches to testing, including risk-based, requirements based, analytic, model-based, scripted, unscripted and automated
• Metrics and measures
• Testing in different life cycle models, including agile, evolutionary and sequential