people or devices that examine or try out something to assess its quality or performance
From test + -er, from Old French test 'pot, vessel' used for assaying metals
From medieval alchemists testing metals in clay pots to modern software testers finding bugs, the concept of testing has always been about proving quality! Those old 'test' pots gave us our modern word.
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