What Manual Test Is

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What Manual Test 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 Testing 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 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.

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 gerunds and verbs.

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.

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.

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.

For instance, drug tests 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.

Sometimes, the tested objects are called testees or examinees.

On another side, a testing subject is someone or something that administers a 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. Human examiners may have plenty of other titles, but more and more tests are conducted automatically, by computers and machines rather than by people.

Principally, all of tests may be categorized as experimental, interventional, or natural.

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 tests. The duck test asserts that,

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Blood tests would be examples of interventional testing and vaccine testing is an experimental one.

Key terms

Testing

Closing

The successor lectio is What Manual Test Is.