"convincing test" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to a test or assessment that is done or performed in order to prove the validity of something. For example: "The scientist conducted a convincing test to prove the effectiveness of the new drug."
We discuss the standards needed for a convincing test of the audience design hypothesis.
Fracture toughness of bulk materials is a topic of classical measurements, but that of thin films, especially hard and superhard thin films, is a different matter owing to specimen dimensions (thickness) and lack of convincing test procedure.
First, we introduce a new and convincing test of the quantitative performance of search and matching models.
Studies on transition temperature under high pressure are another convincing test for the characterization of participating phonon modes in the wide energy scale of phonon spectrum.
I think people are going to sit back and think about what would be another convincing test" to rule out even more possible shapes.
A more convincing test of this hypothesis requires demonstration that fertility within modern populations covaries with the magnitude of trade-off effects.
But other experts are not convinced the test is worth the cost.
It was a means to an end: The better the examiner convinced the test subject that the machine could pick out the lies, the more dramatic the results would be.
On Saturday, Mr. Obama's aides declared that he had passed a threshold test: convincing a huge national audience that he could be commander in chief.
Scientists are still struggling to come to terms with the recent announcement that a 13-year-old boy has passed the Turing test, convincing a panel of judges that he is an actual human being.
