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| − | :[[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 [[noun]] ''testis'' that meant ''a witness'' or ''one who attests'' or, possibly the related [[verb]], ''testari'' that meant ''to bear witness.'' ''Testament'' literally means a ''witness testimony.'' | + | : |
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| − | :In Old English, 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 [[gerund]]s and [[verb]]s.
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| − | :Another Latin word, ''contestari'' derived from the assimilated [[preposition]] meaning ''with, together'' and the [[verb]], ''testari''. The English word, ''contest'', literally means ''testing several objects together''.
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| − | :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, a testing subject is one role and a tested object is another role.
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| − | :The tested object bears those capacities and characteristics that are the subject of testing. This object may be 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 such as motor racing teams. The tested object can be defined as someone or something that undergoes a test.
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| − | :For instance, [[drug test]]s determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolites. The [[Placement Admission Test]] that you have just successfully passed aimed to assess your general knowledge of [[CNM Cyber]]. One governments may study the effects of those laws that neighboring governments impose.
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| − | :Sometimes, the tested objects are called [[testee]]s or [[examinee]]s.
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| − | :On another side, a testing subject is someone or something that administers a test. Often, the testing person, people, or things are called [[tester]]s or [[examiner]]s. [[Educator]]s and [[researcher]]s conduct testing on a regular basis. [[Proctor]]s are those who watch ''examinees'' taking an examination to make sure that the ''examinees'' do not cheat. Human ''examiners'' may have plenty of other titles, but more and more ''tests'' are conducted automatically, by computers and machines rather than by people.
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| − | :Principally, all of tests may be categorized as ''experimental'', ''interventional'', or ''natural''.
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| − | :[[Observation]] is an essential part of any test. Those tests that include nothing, but ''observation'', are natural. Two examples of natural tests are temperature checks and so-called [[duck test]]s. The ''duck test'' asserts that,<blockquote>If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.</blockquote>
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| − | :Blood tests would be examples of interventional testing and vaccine testing is an experimental one.
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