Some Basic Testing Concepts

A test is simply a tool that is used to measure something. To narrow that definition a little – after all, we do measure stuff all the time without having any interest in testing it – a test is usually formal, in the sense that is it created and applied with a purpose and intentionally. I may measure a television set because I have an idle curiosity about its size, but if I'm in the market for a new television, and I have a specific space to put the set, then I'm measuring that TV for a very definite reason…and I'm therefore testing that television for its ability to meet my space restrictions. Some Basic Testing Concepts...