Medynska, S.I.2020-04-012020-04-01201810.32342/2522-4115-2018-16-34http://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2734In the age of rapid IT development with the latest advancements in the computer industry the use of computers as well as online technologies in the education system has become a common phenomenon having largely replaced paper tests by computer testing or online testing which has created a natural technological setting for the students who are millenials and post-millenials. Despite all the benefits of using the latest technologies in the learning process, in particular in forming the foreign language competence with the undergraduate tourism students taken as an example, computer testing, which has recently become popular as a means of objective evaluation with rapid processing of results, has a number of shortcomings that can be eliminated through proper analysis and clear understanding of the ancillary character of computer testing applied for interim and final assessment.The article deals with the relevant issues of computer testing as a means of control of the acquired skills while forming the foreign language competence with a view to defining the reasonable scope of its application with the undergraduate tourism students taken as an example. Constraints of computer testing application have been considered taking into account the motivational and cultural aspects, as well as recommendations on improving efficiency of the existing test systems and defining the scope of their application have been made.othercomputer testing, motivation, foreign language competence, cultural model.