Testing: A New Generation

Electronics testing has been evolving along with the circuits themselves, albeit always a step behind. Techniques that once were touted as panaceas are falling or have fallen out of favor. How has your test strategy changed in recent years? Has your approach to creating a strategy changed? Do you test every product? Samples? Do you test at more points in the process? Fewer points? Do your solutions of years past still fill your needs? Have you abandoned them, or complemented them with other approaches? How does inspection fit into your plans? How has your inspection approach changed?

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