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 lifecycle. 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
• Software testing in an organizational context
• The testing process
• The relationship between testing and development
• Implications of software development lifecycle models (e.g. waterfall, spiral, agile)
• Types of testing, test techniques and test phases/levels
• Risk-based testing
• Test items
• System requirements verification
• System requirements validation