The MSSM in the Light of Precision Data

The potential of present and anticipated future electroweak precision data, including the Higgs boson and top quark masses, for testing quantum effects of the electroweak theory is investigated in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The present status of the theoretical predictions is analyzed. The impact of the parametric uncertainties from the experimental errors of the input parameters is studied, and an estimate for the remaining uncertainties from unknown higher-order corrections is given both in the Standard Model (SM) and the MSSM. Examples of electroweak precision tests in the mSUGRA scenario and the unconstrained MSSM are analyzed, and the status of the global fit to all data is discussed.