TPS report

The standard defines ten procedure steps that may be applied when running a test.

[1] Its use in popular culture increased after the comedic 1999 film Office Space.

In the movie, multiple managers and coworkers inquire about an error that protagonist Peter Gibbons (played by Ron Livingston) makes in omitting a cover sheet to send with his "TPS reports".

According to the film's writer and director Mike Judge, the abbreviation stood for "Test Program Set" in the movie.

[2] After Office Space, "TPS report" has come to connote pointless, mindless paperwork,[3] 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".