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Maintainability:

Maintainability is the degree to which a component or system can be modified by the intended maintainers.

Maintenance:

Maintenance is the process of modifying a component or system after delivery to correct defects, improve quality attributes, or adapt to a changed environment.

Maintenance Testing:

Maintenance Testing is the testing to track the changes to an operational system or the impact of a changed environment to an operational system.

Master Test Plan:

Master Test Plan is a test plan that is used to coordinate multiple test levels or test types. This is generic to multiple modules or functionalities.

Maturity:

Maturity are of two types:

(1) The capability of an organization with respect to the effectiveness and efficiency of its processes and work practices. This follows the CMMI practices.

(2) The degree to which a component or system meets needs for reliability under normal operation.

Measure:

The number or category assigned to an attribute of an entity by making a measurement.

Measurement:

The process of assigning a number or category to an entity to describe an attribute of that entity.

Memory leak:

Memory Leak occurs when a memory access failure due to a defect in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to release memory after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program and/or other concurrent processes to fail due to lack of memory.

Metric:

A Metric is a A measurement scale and the method used for measurement.

Milestone:

Milestone is a point in time in a project at which defined (intermediate) deliverables and results should be ready.

Model-Based Testing:

Model-Based Testing based on or involving models.

Moderator:

Moderator acts a neutral person who conducts a usability test session.

Monitoring Tool:

Monitoring Tool is a software tool or hardware device that runs concurrently with the component or system under test and supervises, records and/or analyzes the behavior of the component or system.

References:

Wikipedia

ISTQB