Testing can means different
Testing is — among other things — reviewing the product and ideas and descriptions of it, looking for significant and relevant inconsistencies.
Testing is — among other things — experimenting with the product to find out how it may be having problems—which is not “breaking the product”.
Testing is — among other things — something that informs quality assurance, but is not in and of itself quality assurance.
Testing is — among other things — helping our clients to make empirically informed decisions about the product, project, or business.
Testing is — among other things — a process by which we systematically examine any aspect of the product with the goal of preventing surprises.
Testing is — among other things — a process of interacting with the product and its systems in many ways that challenge unwarranted optimism.
Testing is — among other things — observing and evaluating the product, to see where all those defect prevention ideas might have failed.
Testing is — among other things — a special part of the development process focused on discovering what could go badly (or what is going badly).
Testing is — among other things — exploring, discovering, investigating, learning, and reporting about the product to reveal new information.
Testing is — among other things — gathering information about the product, its users, and conditions of its use, to help defend value.
Testing is — among other things — raising questions to help teams to develop products that more quickly and easily reveal their own problems.
Testing is — among other things — helping programmers and the team to learn about unanticipated aspects of the product we’re developing.
Testing is — among other things — helping our clients to understand the product they’ve got so they can decide if it’s the product they want.
Testing is — among other things — using both tools and direct interaction with the product to question and evaluate its behaviours and states.
Testing is — among other things — exploring products deeply, imaginatively, and suspiciously, to help find problems that threaten the value.
Testing is — among other things — performing actual and thought experiments on products and ideas to identify problems and risks.
Testing is — among other things — thinking critically and skeptically about products and ideas around them, with the goal of not being fooled.
Testing is — among other things — evaluating a product by learning about it through exploration, experimentation, observation and inference.
