Integration and Test Strategies for ComplexManufacturing Machines: Integration and Testing Combined in a Single Planning and Optimization Framework

Simple systems, software or hardware, can be testedeasily. Nowadays, simple systems do not exist anymoreand testing becomes a real problem.Often, testing is considered in isolation, while themoment that testing can start is defined by themoment that the module is delivered. Delivered modules need to be assembled into the rest of the system, before testing can start.This book starts with the assumption that integration(assembly) and testing cannot be seen apart from eachother. Strategies forintegration and strategies for the individual test tasks can not be seen apart from each other when integration and test tasks are mixed. A framework is introduced, in this book, that can be applied for integration and testing problems in different types of organizations. The impact of the organization on the goal of the integration and test problem at hand is discussed. Moreover, this framework describes how an integration and test plan can be created using a number of described integration and test strategies. Finally, this book introduces a few optimization techniques for integration and test plans.