Glossary of Terms

Terms

Reliability - The ability of a system to work correctly, even when things go wrong. The things that can go wrong are called faults.

Scalability - The ability of a system to cope with an increase in load.

Maintainability - The ability in which a system can be modified to add features, improve performance, correct faults, or other attributes.

Fault Tolerance - The ability of a system to respond in the event of failures or faults in one or more of its components.

Load Parameters - Metrics used to measure scalability.