Wiktionary
put to the test
vb. (context idiomatic English) To test something or someone; to evaluate, scrutinize or explore by testing or experimentation.
Usage examples of "put to the test".
It is with this same kind of trust that Buddhist contemplatives receive formal training in Buddhism and try to put to the test the Buddha’.
His scientists, whose best genetic weapon fizzled when put to the test, had failed him.
If anyone is to be put to the test it will be the three men who are probably the most important in the United States today.
This mathematical weaving Hugh had been teaching him for months now, and tonight his learning, and his memory, would be put to the test.