A testing method for an array substrate is disclosed which includes a first measuring
step of operating a line electrode driver circuit 15 and a row electrode
driver circuit 16 like in a normal display mode while implementing writing
in/reading out of a test video signal to and from supplemental capacitors 13,
and a second measuring step of implementing writing in/reading out of the test
video signals to and from a video bus 163 while rendering TFTs 11
of a pixel section 18 and analog switches 162 of the row electrode
driver circuit 16 to be held turned off. Obtaining a difference between
a measured result of the first measuring step and a measured result of the second
measuring step allows only a pixel component and a row electrode component with
no driver component to be derived, whereupon discrimination is implemented for
the presence of or the absence of electric defects in the pixel section.