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it can be research: testing out concepts/solutions ideas and seeing the behaviour/performance, this will often be less refined prototypes just to understand if the theoretical solution represents well in the real world (there are engineers who work to identify and generate solution ideas - who I would describe as the creative roles you talk about, they would often be involved in developing these tests, but probably unlikely to manage them unless you are in a very small organisation)
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Research Correlation: if you have data from another source such as a computer simulation you will want to correlate it with physical testing on a prototype to make sure it is representative
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Development: validation testing, typically taking a prototype that is very close to a final product (perhaps even a prototype build of the final product), and putting it through tests to make sure it complies with what you need (this could be performance related, safety related, environmental…)
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