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Testing is a well known tool. It makes sure your products meet your requirements and your customers expectations. This is an important part of quality assurance for all kinds of products, ranging from mechanical or electrical components to electronics boards and complete machines. It is also valid both for testing during development and in production testing. So how can this be done in an efficient way?<\/p>\n
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Image: Automated inspection system for nuclear rod.<\/p>\n
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Test coverage is a measure between 0 to 100%. Having 100% test coverage means you have tested your product in every possible way. In hardware testing of more or less complex products this is basically impossible. Still you want to have as high test coverage as possible. By automating tests this can be reached much easier than with manual testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For example testing error handling of a machine in an automated test system, you can simulate external events that occur. By looping this with different timing, you can actually achieve several tests, since the error then occurs while the product is in different modes. This is one way of increasing test coverage with automated testing.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_margin=”|auto|8px|auto||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”99.7%” custom_margin=”-5px||||false|false” custom_padding=”25px|16px|1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n So by being able to test more of your products functionality, your quality assurance will be improved. You will find errors and bugs earlier, and most importantly before your customer finds them. 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Designing it to be robust is important for it to run stable without supervision. Moreover, in hardware testing both the hardware and software solution of the test system has to be robust. For example a test framework with stable software is key. Optimizing signal switching, configurations and the order of tests are other ways of making the test system efficient.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.dvel.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Time-to-market.png” title_text=”Time to market” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”auto” min_height=”auto” height=”auto” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” max_height=”1000px” custom_margin=”30px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Rubrik: Reassure Quality” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_font_size=”15px” custom_margin=”-23px||0px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”99.7%” custom_margin=”-5px||||false|false” custom_padding=”3px|28px|1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In R&D, efficient automated testing as shown above can reduce your development time, since feedback to the development team is quicker. This will shorten your cycles between development and test. This agile way of working improves the whole team’s efficiency and reduces the time to market for new products.<\/span><\/p>\n In production, the benefits of efficient automated testing is not a faster time to market. But the key here is still finding the errors early. In this case it will reduce the total production cost.<\/span><\/p>\n Efficient and well planned testing will lead to higher quality, and automated testing is one way of achieving this. 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It makes sure your products meet your requirements and your customers expectations. This is an important part of quality assurance for all kinds of products, ranging from mechanical or electrical components to electronics boards and complete machines. It is also valid both for testing during development and in production […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"sp_smart_badges":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nBetter quality assurance and reduced costs<\/span><\/h4>\n
Quality Assurance<\/h4>\n
Testing around the clock<\/span><\/h4>\n
Time to Market<\/span><\/h4>\n
Faster time to market with automated tests<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Karin Hellqvist<\/strong><\/h4>\n