online medical dictionary | definition of test

<testing> The process of exercising a product to identify differences between expected and actual behaviour. Typically testing is bottom-up: unit testing and integration testing by developers, system testing by testers, and user acceptance testing by users.

Test coverage attempts to assess how complete a test has been.

2. The second stage in a generate and test search algorithm.

(01 Aug 2003)

1. A significant chemical reaction.

2. A reagent. For specific test.

(11 Mar 2008)