scantest
Scantest is a term used in software testing and quality assurance to describe the smallest or most minimal set of tests necessary to verify a feature or requirement, under a given risk tolerance. It emphasizes efficiency by focusing on the most informative tests.
Derived from scant meaning barely enough, with superlative form scantest to denote the extreme minimalism in
Not standardized; used in some practitioner communities and certain QA discussions to describe "minimum viable tests"
In practice, scantest testing may rely on risk assessment, historical defect data, equivalence partitioning, boundary value
Critics argue that focusing on the scantest set of tests can increase the risk of undetected defects,
In use today: The term is not widely standardized and appears mainly in professional discourse, blogs, and
See also: test minimalism, risk-based testing, test coverage, minimal viable testing.