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" Earlier "assay gold or silver" in a test (c. 1600). Meaning "to administer a test" is from 1939; sense of "undergo a test" is from 1934. Related: Tested; testing.  
  
 
:Being the principle of those capacities and characteristics that are the subject of testing is one role. This principle may be  of a human being, a group of people, non-human things, as well as any systems, including those that combine human beings and non-human things.
 
:Being the principle of those capacities and characteristics that are the subject of testing is one role. This principle may be  of a human being, a group of people, non-human things, as well as any systems, including those that combine human beings and non-human things.

Revision as of 16:26, 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

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. The word originally came to English from Latin testis that meant a witness or one who attests.
Initial meanings of testing included trial to determine the correctness of something for a noun and examining the correctness of and putting to the proof for gerunds and verbs. Many other words such as testament derived from the same Latin root.
In modern English, the term, testing may be used to describe a variety of actions and processes. However, all of those actions and processes involve two principal roles.

" Earlier "assay gold or silver" in a test (c. 1600). Meaning "to administer a test" is from 1939; sense of "undergo a test" is from 1934. Related: Tested; testing.

Being the principle of those capacities and characteristics that are the subject of testing is one role. This principle may be of a human being, a group of people, non-human things, as well as any systems, including those that combine human beings and non-human things.
With regard to one or more human beings, blood test can indicate levels of hemoglobin, cholesterol, white and red cells, and so on. The Placement Admission Test that you have just successfully passed aimed to assess your general knowledge of CNM Cyber. contest


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

Testing

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.

Questions

Placement entrance exam