test case meaning

• Noun: test case  test keys
  1. A representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent
     - test suit

  Derived forms: test cases

  Type of: action, action at law, legal action

  Encyclopedia: Test case

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  [Business]
  noun [C]

  (Law )

  a legal case or other situation whose result will be used as an example when decisions are being made on similar cases in the future:

  The Italian group's bid will serve as a test case for the new takeover laws.

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  [Law]
  A case brought to test a principle of law that, once established, can be applied in other cases. Thus when there are a number of claimants with similar claims, a test case may be brought by one of them, after which the remainder of the claims can be settled out of court on the same basis. Compare REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.

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Examples

1. test case execution under control of the debugger
2. the test case in listings 2 through 4 produce a
3. an evaluation method for test case prioritization
4. which represents a test case in junit
5. test case, the test suite you pass as parameter to