The phrase "abandoning testing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the decision to stop or discontinue testing processes or procedures.
Example: "After careful consideration, the team decided that abandoning testing was necessary to meet the project deadline."
Alternatives: "discontinuing testing" or "ceasing testing".
Abandoning testing would "be equivalent to saying 'O.K., because there are some players that cheated in Major League Baseball, we should stop keeping score, because that only encourages people to take steroids,' " said Thomas J. Kane, director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, who has received funding from the Gates Foundation.
Explanations for abandoning tests of new treatments earlier than planned are often hazy.
In 1989, Avon was among the first cosmetics company to abandon testing product ingredients on animals, relying on computer modeling, laboratory tests and human subjects.
Well, he's entitled to his opinion... Clarins abandoned testing on animals in 1987 - the first French company to do so.
The team were forced to abandon testing after just seven laps because of a hydraulic leak in the Honda engine.
Despite still suffering with the fever that forced him to abandon testing after just 11 laps on Thursday, Lewis Hamilton made everyone sit up and take notice with what he did on Friday.
"This is likely in part because identifying parent domains is much easier (even inside an agency), and in part because most agencies have a 'long tail' of unused, abandoned, testing, or staging subdomains," explains Eric Mill, senior advisor on technology policy and strategy for the General Services Administration.
World champion Lewis Hamilton, who said he was still not feeling 100% fit after a fever had forced him to abandon testing on Thursday, was third fastest on another solid day for Mercedes on the 'medium' tyre - two grades harder than the 'super-soft'.
That's the bottom line, and that's what must be addressed, but we can't abandon testing or accountability.
Earlier this month, the company announced that it had abandoned tests of aprepitant, also known as Substance P, for depression.
Later, Mr. Smith led the way to another piece of evidence of nature's adaptability: an abandoned test well that the snakes are using as an underground den.
