A measurement performed on motor vehicles, required by the DMV, to prevent issuing valid registration if an excessive amount of waste fumes are produced during typical use. Cars typically are placed on a dynamometer to simulate different driving speeds.

(engineering) Either a static or dynamic test of the relative density of sand, silt, etc. using a penetrometer.

A test in which a potential consumer is asked to determine blindly which of three similar items is not identical to the other two.

(medicine) A medical test in which a sample of saliva is analyzed, often in order to measure a person's hormone levels; such a test administered to an athlete in order to conclusively determine gender.

plural of test suite

Action of performing a Portable Appliance Test or PAT

(computing) Container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.

(software) the phase in software testing that occurs after unit testing and before validation testing, where individual software modules are combined and tested as a group.

(statistics) A kind of specialized t test that tests the significance of a mediation effect.

plural of Sobel test