testing

1 the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"

2 an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

3 the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned [syn: examination]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ

Verb

testing

1. present participle of test

Test, TEST or Tester may refer to:

• Test (student assessment), an assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities
• test (Unix), a Unix command for evaluating conditional expressions
• Test (biology), the shell of sea urchins and the shell of certain microorganisms
• TEST (x86 instruction), an x86 assembly language instruction
• River Test, England
• Andrew Martin or Test, a professional wrestler
• Experiment, part of the scientific method, to verify or falsify an expectation with an observation

People with the surname Tester

surname Tester

• Jon Tester, Democratic Junior Senator from Montana, USA
• Ralph Tester, head of a section at British codebreaking station Bletchley Park

See also

• Electronic test equipment
• Exam
• Fire test
• Legal tests
• List of tests
• Multimeter
• Psychological testing
• Primality test, as an example of a mathematical test
• Quality control
• Software testing - further categorized into functional testing, SIT, Load testing and UAT
• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Test-driven development
• Test match (disambiguation)
• Test method

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