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It is always better to remove a component from the circuit for proper testing but most of the time a resistor can be tested with a DMM set to the appropriate ohm scale, the same with a diode where the DMM is set to diode setting. A transistor is more complicated, you first have to find the base connector and with your DMM set to diode, NPN Transistor, with negative probe to the base and positive to emitter or collector the smallest reading will be the collector and the slightly higher reading will be the emitter, no reading mean that it can be a PNP transistor then you will need to swap your probes, still no reading or a very low reading will mean the transistor is damaged In actuality tektronics do make a curve tracer oscilloscope to test active components . But the speed is very limited. So while it may tell you that the part is good or bad it will not tell you how good or how bad it will function in the actual circuit