testing

difficile, éprouvant

Assez difficile pour demander beaucoup d’efforts, de patience ou de savoir-faire.

En anglais simple : Difficult enough to require a lot of effort, patience, or skill.

• It was a testing day.
• We faced testing conditions on the mountain.
• These have been testing times for the family.

Synonymes : difficult, challenging, demanding

Contraires : easy

Expressions courantes : testing time, testing conditions, testing period

tests, essais

Activité consistant à vérifier le fonctionnement d’une chose ou si elle est vraie, sûre ou adaptée.

En anglais simple : The activity of checking how well something works or whether something is true, safe, or suitable.

• The testing took two days.
• Safety testing revealed a problem with the toy.
• We need more testing before selling the software.

Comment l'utiliser : testing of something (Testing of the new equipment starts tomorrow.)

Synonymes : evaluation, checking

Expressions courantes : safety testing, product testing, testing of something