Sentence examples for test assertions from inspiring English sources

Rifkin had recently joined the Cape Downwinders, a group of local residents concerned about the plant's safety, and hoped to test assertions by a Pilgrim manager that the airspace above the plant was secure.

Further research similar to Borgerding ([2012]) will be needed to directly test assertions regarding the complex interactions between biology teachers, their instruction, and education standards related to evolution.

The BioRuby source tree contains over 580 documented classes, 2800 public methods and 20 000 unit test assertions.

Because we have taken a unit-test-based approach the initial design of our convention verification software used Schematron, an ISO Standard for testing assertions about the structure of XML documents.

As Hitchens's fact checker at Vanity Fair, I often test his assertions by contradicting them.

The company's research lab is full of competitors' products labeled "natural," and employees of Burt's Bees test those assertions.

Toward the end, I said we'd need to do a blow-by-blow fact-checking exercise to test which assertions were correct.

The assistant treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, said the ACCC had established the facts in the gas market after the confidential nature of contracts, prices and negotiations had hampered the ability of previous reviews to disentangle and test the assertions about the market.

Psychologists in Norway decided to test the assertions made by Petra Hesser, head of IKEA in Germany, in 2008 that women are better than men at assembling flat-pack furniture because they read the instructions carefully.

By revealing them, investors would have been better informed of the risks the bank was taking, and more able to test the assertions of management that the situation was under control.

To test these assertions, the current study first observed the trabecular microstructure of the Cybister beetle and confirmed that the trabeculae are solid.