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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
test case
noun
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▪ If it goes to court it could be an important test case.
▪ It promised, in a very real sense, a test case for our theories of the behavior of impactors.
▪ Mrs Ruth Annison, association secretary, thought the Redmire branch would become a test case for similar lines elsewhere.
▪ Substitute biology teacher John Scopes volunteered to be the test case.
▪ The infuriated Abbot put forward a test case by sending a monk with a wagonload of corn across the bridge.
▪ This is symptomatic of the adversarial relationship schools have with Woodhead, but it is also an extremely important test case.
▪ Van Gogh as the subject for a biographer is thus a test case.
▪ With Magic as a high-profile test case, the world will see an HIV-positive person living the life he chooses.
Wiktionary
test case

n. 1 (context legal English) A legal action intended to set a precedent. 2 (context computing English) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.

WordNet
test case

n. a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent [syn: test suit]

Wikipedia
Test case

A test case, in software engineering, is a set of conditions under which a tester will determine whether an application, software system or one of its features is working as it was originally established for it to do. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test oracle. In some settings, an oracle could be a requirement or use case, while in others it could be a heuristic. It may take many test cases to determine that a software program or system is considered sufficiently scrutinized to be released. Test cases are often referred to as test scripts, particularly when written - when they are usually collected into test suites.

Test case (law)

In case law, a test case is a legal action whose purpose is to set a precedent. An example of a test case might be a legal entity who files a lawsuit in order to see if the court considers a certain law or a certain legal precedent applicable in specific circumstances. This is useful, for example, in order to later file similar lawsuits in similar circumstances.

Government agencies sometimes bring test cases in order to confirm or expand their powers.

Usage examples of "test case".

Next year my people in Chicago will engineer a test case to get a ruling that any form of operant screening of employees by private corporations is an invasion of privacy and unconstitutional.

I surrender myself to the Gestapo, a test case to determine whether or not I, a distinguished guest and reliable taxpayer who has never failed to contribute to the police welfare fund and to the firemen's ball, can in fact be locked up for no reason whatever.

One of the slower freighters had already gotten under way to the safety zone, and that test case was the one she was most concerned about.