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Safety Testing

Reviewed 19 July 2026 Canonical definition Part of: Agent Evaluation Terms →

Safety testing is the process of deliberately probing an AI agent with adversarial, edge-case, and boundary-condition inputs to verify that safety controls hold. It should be part of every pre-deployment evaluation pipeline.

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What is Safety Testing?

Safety testing is the process of deliberately probing an AI agent with adversarial, edge-case, and boundary-condition inputs to verify that safety controls hold.

How is Safety Testing used in production?

It should be part of every pre-deployment evaluation pipeline.

Which terms are related to Safety Testing?

Closely related concepts include Evaluation Dataset, Evaluation Harness (Agent), Ground Truth Evaluation, Prompt Regression Testing. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.

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