Publisher's Synopsis
A successful test strategy is a by-product of overall product life-cycle management. Anyone building such a strategy must consider the product's development, manufacturing and test stages, field returns, service issues and the company's "image of quality". This text examines strategies, and techniques, and focuses on how to match them with a variety of company philosophies and profiles.;The book explores the criteria for choosing a strategy or a class of equipment, and provides tools for efficient and effective test-strategy decisions. It examines engineering, marketing and management concerns that directly affect test-strategy effectiveness, and aims to provide the reader with the background and information to construct the "best" strategy for individual situations.