The phrase "a substantive test" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts such as law, accounting, or research to refer to a test that assesses the substance or content of something rather than its form or appearance.
Example: "In the audit process, we will conduct a substantive test to verify the accuracy of the financial statements."
Alternatives: "a content test" or "a material test".
The Iranian nuclear question has become an important symbolic and substantive test of the results of the relationship since their first meeting, when Mr. Bush declared that he had looked into Mr. Putin's soul and found a man he could trust.
The decision will be the first substantive test of the "forum bar", introduced by May when she was home secretary.
The case was considered to be the first substantive test of the "forum bar", which was introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary to allow courts to block extradition if it is in the interests of justice to have a person tried in Britain instead.
When determining the nature, timing and extent of substantive testing, the auditor must consider the costs involved in testing controls and compare that cost to the savings in substantive testing that can occur by relying on the tested controls.
In other words, the auditor trades off control testing and substantive testing to determine the best mix of procedures.
Gerald Boyd, deputy assistant secretary for OST, says that EM often performs field tests of off-the-shelf technology but that in most cases, the product has already undergone substantive testing and peer review elsewhere.
The miniaturization of sequencers with the advent of Illumina's MiSeq and Life Technologies Ion Torrentt is making HTS accessible to many more customers in clinical diagnostics, although incorporating these devices into clinical workflows will require substantive testing and validation.
Anyone who works in technology knows you don't spite the Production Gods and spite the Production Gods the ABS did, from statements made beforehand to apparently a substantive lack of testing.
While researchers often assume that differences are of a substantive nature (particularly when internal consistency, test-retest, and predictive validity estimates are satisfactory), without further testing we cannot rule out the influence of measurement biases (i.e., reasons 1 3) [ 17].
The Dory Guest–Harris instability benchmark extends the scope of current standard test problems by providing a substantive means of validating continuum kinetic simulations of magnetized plasmas in higher-dimensional 3D (x,vx,vy) phase space.
