Are you testing or checking?

Vikas Hazrati posts an interesting thought about testing vs. checking at InfoQ:

“Checking is something that we do with the motivation of confirming existing beliefs. [...] Testing is something that we do with the motivation of finding new information.”

So when you “test” your software, are you really testing? Or are you just checking?

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