A TPS report (Testing Procedure Specification) is a document used by a quality assurance group or individual, particularly in software engineering, that describes the testing procedures and the testing process.
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Definition
The official definition and creation is provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as follows:
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In popular culture
After its use in the comedic 1999 film Office Space, "TPS report" has come to connote pointless, mindless paperwork, and an example of "literacy practices" in the work environment that are "meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by an inept and uncaring management" and "relentlessly mundane and enervating". According to the film's writer and director Mike Judge, the abbreviation stood for "Test Program Set" in the movie. In the movie, multiple managers and coworkers inquire about a single error that Peter Gibbons makes in utilizing a wrong cover sheet to send his TPS reports. It is used by Gibbons as an example that he has eight different persons he directly reports to.
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