- (assertion) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
- (assertion) affirmation: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- In a financial audit, management assertions or financial statement assertions is the set of information that the preparer of financial statements (management) is providing to another party. Financial statements represent a very complex and interrelated set of assertions. ...
- (Assertion (programming)) In computer programming, an assertion is a predicate (for example a true–false statement) placed in a program to indicate that the developer thinks that the predicate is always true at that place.
- (assertion) A component of a regular expression that must be true for the pattern to match but does not necessarily match any characters itself. Often used specifically to mean a zero width assertion.
- (assertion) A logical expression specifying a program state that must exist or a set of conditions that program variables must satisfy at a particular point during program execution.
- (assertion) A piece of data, transmitted in an XML document, that contains authorization and authentication information about a user. The assertion is used to facilitate secure business transactions.
- (ASSERTION) a statement that is debatable, as opposed to fact. Sometimes it is explicitly stated while sometimes it is implicit.
- (Assertion) A declaration or claim. Typically, when the term assertion is used in conjection with privilege management it tends to connote a claim formatted with a particular formal syntax. ...
- (Assertion) A method that will pass or fail the test method if certain conditions are met. The most basic assertion is the familiar assert_equal. If the two objects passed to assert_equal are not equal, then the assertion will fail, which causes the test to fail. ...
- (Assertion) A statement that something should be true. In xUnit-style Test Automation Frameworks, this is realized as an Assertion Method that fails when the actual outcome passed to it does not match the expected outcome.
- (Assertion) A statement that the author/speaker believes to be true. (See “Claim.”)
- (Assertion) A statement within an Argument that supports or refutes its parent.
- (Assertion) Any expression which is claimed to be true. [W3C definition source]
- (Assertion) Marathon’s terminology for a check point in a test script.
- (Assertion) Stating an opinion as a fact
- (Assertion) Strong claims about the truth of something.
- (Assertion) The identity information provided by an Identity Provider to a Service Provider.
- (Assertion) “What’s the assertion?” was a term used to ask how events were transpiring at any given time, used in the same way as “Que pasa?” “What’s happenin’ bro?” or “what’s gannin’ on?”
- (assertion) A categorical statement made by the author, speaker, narrator, or character which generalizes an opinion usually about human nature. A "for or against" stance taken by the writer of a personal essay (also called a proposition). ...
- (assertion) A statement of what must be true. In Java, assertions are generally found in comments.
- (assertion) Something declared or stated positively.
- (assertion) The act of claiming that a proposition is true. In ordinary language, "The door is shut" is an assertion, while "I wonder if the door is shut" and "Please shut the door" are not.
- (assertion) Within a closed domain models of security, a statement about a user that is inherently trusted. Assertions, with inherent trust, may be contrasted with claims, which are only trusted to the extent that a trust relationship exists with the issuer of the claim.
- (assertion) a logical expression in the database of true or currently believed facts.