The phrase "act of testing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process or action of evaluating or assessing something, typically in a formal or systematic manner.
Example: "The act of testing the new software revealed several critical bugs that needed to be addressed before the launch."
Alternatives: "process of testing" or "testing procedure".
A nursery-school teacher tipped us off to the fact that child psychologists are getting wary of testing children, having come to believe that the child is so sensitive an organism that the very act of testing alters his behavior.
If this evidence turns out to be solid – if it turns out to be attributed to the regime itself – it may turn out to be the case that this was an act of testing those red lines by using small-scale attacks.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, January 21 , 1950 P. 17A nursery-school teacher tipped us off to the fact that child psychologists are getting wary of testing children, having come to believe that the child is so sensitive an organism that the very act of testing alters his behavior.
A different version of the expressivist argument looks beyond the individual act of testing to focus on the social offer of prenatal testing, particularly in a society where it has become routinized, to consider the negative evaluation it expresses about the lives of existing people with disabilities (Press 2000).
8– 11 RDT consumption reflects the act of testing, rather than adherence to the result.
Despite being naive to their pre-shift hydration results, anecdotal reports from several of the participants in our study indicated that they had tried to drink extra water during the shift to "improve" on their pre-shift hydration status, thus the act of testing may increase miner's mindfulness of their hydration status and encourage them to consume more water.
By supporting Braun, the union seemed to act in contradiction of testing and collecting procedures it negotiated.
Previous studies have demonstrated that the mere act of being tested for HIV can be enough to subject a woman to domestic violence [ 51].
Since language testers began to understand the nature of language testing as a social practice in the 1990s, the growing recognition in the field is that "the act of language testing and the language tests themselves are not neutral but are strongly embedded in political, social and educational contexts" (Shohamy 2007, p. 522).
Ratios of tested patients to ACT treatments delivered were calculated by dividing the number of ACT treatments delivered in a given facility-month by the number of patients tested during the same facility-month for each facility.
Also, as the number of tests grow, they act as a safety net, allowing developers to refactor freely, and also try and experiment different approaches to that code.
