Test Bed

A test bed (also commonly spelled as testbed in research publications) is a platform for experimentation of large development projects. Test beds allow for rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and new technologies.

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Test bed is the envaironment that is required to test software.
This include requirement of H/W S/W Memory cpu speed operating system etc.

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An executing environment configuring for a testing environment is called test bed.

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Test Bed is an environment containing the hardware instrumentation simulators software tools and other support elements needed to conduct a test.