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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – ISTQB Definition
Last Updated: July 12, 2026 · SoftwareTestPilot QA Team
Official ISTQB Definition
A discipline that applies software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations problems to build scalable and reliable systems.
In simple words
Google-invented discipline that treats ops as a software problem.
Exam tip
SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortems are core SRE ideas.
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