Question

Which is applied to a manufactured system?

(a) bit pattern

(b) parity pattern

(c) test pattern

(d) byte pattern

I had been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Testing in division Validation of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

Correct option is (c) test pattern

For explanation I would say: For testing any devices or embedded systems, we use some sort of selected inputs which is known as the test pattern and observe the output and is compared with the expected output. These test patterns are normally applied to the manufactured systems.