O que são relatórios TPS?

SET DO PROGRAMA DE TESTE

De acordo com o diretor Mike Judge, os relatórios da TPS representam o Programa de Testes no filme .

I guess I can settle this once and for all," Mike Judge, the movie's writer and director, said of the dreaded report his protagonist, Peter Gibbons, failed to attach a cover sheet to, despite his eight bosses' memo to do so. "When I was an engineer, it stood for Test Program Set. Isn't that exciting?"

Na cultura popular, os Relatórios TPS são definidos como documentos burros num ambiente :

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.

Há também uma definição no dicionário urbano sobre os relatórios do TPS definindo-os como Total Pointless Coisas (entre outras coisas).

A postagem da Wikipédia para relatórios TPS (sim, existe) lista a seguinte definição, do Institute of Engenheiros Elétricos e Eletrônicos:

IEEE 829 – Test Procedure Specification The Test Procedures are developed from both the Test Design and the Test Case Specification. The document describes how the tester will physically run the test, the physical set-up required, and the procedure steps that need to be followed. The standard defines ten procedure steps that may be applied when running a test.