A platform on which an assortment of experimental tools and products may be deployed and allowed to interact in real-time. Successful tools and products may be identified and developed in an interactive, evolutionary, interdependent process.

a unique quality control tool that provides powerful source code analysis and testing facilities for the validation and verification of software applications

Experimental proof of concept, technology demonstration, pre-prototype.

An experimental prototype created with real data and used by an information community for testing a new system architecture.

A testbed is a platform for experimentation for large development projects. Testbeds allow for rigorous, transparent and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and other new technologies.