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Revision as of 01:19, 6 November 2020
What Testing Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of Manual Testing Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to manual testing concepts. This lesson belongs to the CNMCT Entrance section of the CNM Cyber Placement.
Content
The predecessor lectio is What the Placement Is.
Script
- While testing may mean various things, but, generally, testing can be defined as an endeavor undertaken to try somebody or something out to discover, evaluate, and/or measure the one's capacities and/or characteristics.
- Testing involves two principal roles.
- One role is the subject of testing. This subject may be a human being, a group of people, non-human things, or some systems that include both a human and non-human.
Sometimes, the tested person, people, or things are called testees or examinees.
- Another role is somebody or something who conducts the test. Often, the testing person, people, or things are called testers or examiners. Educators and researchers conduct testing on a regular basis. Proctors are those who watch examinees taking an examination to make sure that the examinees do not cheat. Examiners may have plenty of other titles.
- There are
1.2 Human vs machine tester
1.3 Intervention vs observation
2 See also
2.1 Related lectures
Types Human vs non-human subject
Test subject, testee, examinee Human vs machine tester Intervention vs observation
Key terms
Closing
- Would you like to be enrolled in the CNM Cyber Placement? --Yes/No/I'm not sure
The successor lectio is What Manual Test Is.
