Mere Scrap of Information – The Route to the Product I am a guy, and grew up in the 70’s. My dad was a Vietnam Vet serving in the 7th Special Forces Group. I grew up watching action movies. My favorite actor of that era was Clint Eastwood, and one of my favorite movies Fist Full […]
Wire harness development and testing Slow is painful by Jon M Quigley Vehicle Systems Vehicles have become increasingly electrical over the year, even vehicles that are not electric propulsion. There are more features, more embedded controllers and greater communication between the electronic controllers. The range of content is from power electronics, sensor data (analog signals), […]
By Jon M. Quigley I saw a LinkedIn post yesterday about the scope of testing during times of compressed schedule. The position was to test what is new in the software, and of that new, what is the most important, perhaps meaning what if it goes wrong, would be the worst for the client or […]
We are composing a glossary of test terms and we take one from that work today and discuss here. A development organization can be structured in many ways. The development and testing can be essentially one department under one management structure, or these two areas, development and test can be separated each with a respective […]
Today we discuss interchangeability of parts. This may sound trivial, but you probably would not even consider replacing your food processor blade with your lawnmower blade. It would be obvious that these are not interchangeable. However, there are times when a part needs to be replaced or design is reworked altering the composition, that is […]
Independent Test and Verification We are composing a glossary of testing terms and we take one from that work today and discuss here. We welcome any and all that would like to contribute. Today we discuss development and independent test and verification. A development organization can be structured in many ways. The development and testing […]
You are in college now, and you see people that are likely smart as far as youth will provide. Everybody can have strong “opinions” and perhaps their track record in high school has been one of success after success or being the person known to be knowledgeable – as far as high school topics go. […]
There have been some twitter discussions going on about the validity of the term end-to-end (E2E) testing. I have been around this concept for many years and still see the validity in the term and the approach. To that end, I will describe as quick and briefly as I can since this is a blog […]
by: Shawn P. Quigley & Jon M Quigley Measurements and Bias Solely by the process of observing something we can alter the thing which is being observed. This is a known as the observer-expectancy effect. This effect is born out of conscience and subconscious biases of the observer. In the case of observing people, we […]
Verification and Validation The definition for verification and validation can be found at[1]: We must express some disagreement with the activities associated with the individual areas. For example, testing is not limited to Validation. Testing is also a function of verification as we will use these techniques to understand if the instantiation of the […]