NDLI: Empowering test engineering

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ungar, L.Y.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Adv. Test Eng. (A.T.E.) Solutions, Inc., El Segundo, CA, USA (Ungar, L.Y.)
Abstract	While test engineering has been busy creating better and more comprehensive tests in response to an ever more complex set of electronics, its status as a profession has steadily declined. The notion that test engineering is necessary, beneficial and an economically valuable part of delivering and supporting a good product is not always recognized by management and thus the profession lacks status and empowerment. This extends to military organizations that have demoted standards having to do with test: MIL-STD-2165, the Design for Testability (DFT) military standard has been relegated to MIL-HDBK-2165, Test Program Set (TPS) development military standard MIL-STD-2077 has been replaced by MIL-PRF (preferred)-32070, and ATEs, such as CASS and IFTE have been preselected for test organizations. Without empowerment, test engineers serve other organizations with a variety of priorities. This is not efficient and often compromises the test engineering mission. Test engineering serves a noble cause of its own, which creates value and profit for the company. We demonstrate the economics paradigm and suggest that empowerment will follow when test engineering is considered to be an investment rather than expenditure. As a profit center, an empowered test engineering department and its test engineers need to be masters of their missions as well as of their destiny. To accomplish that, we explore how the four management functions of Planning, Organizing, Controlling and Leading can be incorporated into the test engineering department. We detail the management tasks and argue that the proper management of a value-added test engineering department can bring about a greater empowerment for its test engineers. At the same time, only an empowered test engineering department can accomplish these tasks.
Sponsorship	IEEE Instrum. Meas. Soc.
Starting Page	316
Ending Page	323
File Size	841047
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479981908
DOI	10.1109/AUTEST.2015.7356509
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-11-02
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Maintenance engineering Investment Mathematical model Military standards Discrete Fourier transforms Companies embedded test electronics test management testability automatic test
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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