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Contents

Preface to the Second Edition x

Chapter 1 What Is a Test Strategy? I
1.1 Why Are You Here? 3
1.2 It Isn't Just Testing Anymore 3
1.3 Strategies and Tactics 4
1.3.1 The First Step 5
1.3.2 Life Cycles 6
1.4 The Design and Test Process 9
1.4.1 Breaking Down the Walls 10
1.4.2 Making the Product 15
1.4.3 New Challenges 16
1.5 Concurrent Engineering Is Not Going Away 17
1.6 The Newspaper Model 21
1.6.1 Error Functions 21
1.6.2 What Do You Test? 23
1.6.3 Board Characteristics 26
1.6.4 The Fault Spectrum 28
1.6.5 Other Considerations 34
1.6.6 The How of Testing 37
1.7 Test-Strategy Costs 39
1.7.1 Cost Components 40
1.7.2 Committed vs. Out-of-Pocket Costs 43
1.8 Project Scope 44
1.9 Statistical Process Control 46
1.10 Summary 50

Chapter 2 Test Methods 53
2.1 The Order-of-Magnitude Rule 53
2.2 A Brief (Somewhat Apocryphal) History of Test 55
2.3 Test Options 58
2.3.1 Analog Measurements 59