With the size of semiconductor transistors decreasing and chip complexity increasing exponentially, semiconductor test has become essential to ensuring that only high-quality products go to market.

Automobiles are increasingly more like electronic devices than mechanical platforms. As a share of the total cost of a car, electronics components have grown from about 5% in 1970 to 35% in 2010.

A test plan keeps track of possible tests that will be run on the system after coding. It ensures all requirements are implemented as laid out in the requirements specification. To avoid bias, a test ...