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The speed of bringing cost-effective, high-technology and high-quality products to market is of key importance in today’s competitive environment. The use of automatic test equipment that can minimise costs, maximise productivity and maintain or improve quality, has an important role to play in gaining the necessary advantage. However, it has to be used effectively.

The second edition of The Economics of Automatic Testing is much broader in scope than the first, covering all major business issues affecting the competitiveness of a company, as well as the detailed issues surrounding testing decisions. The book is based upon the concept that the optimum strategy for the testing of electronics can only be established after a detailed economic analysis of the alternatives. Thus, all the issues that have to be considered, and the various analytical approaches that can be used to make a test decision, are discussed in detail in the first two-thirds of the book. Particular emphasis is placed on the key roles of quality and time-to-market and their effect on the decision process. The remaining chapters deal with the activities that follow the decision, including the evaluation of commercial testers, the financial justification and the presentation of the proposals to senior management.

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About the author

Brendan Davis has been actively involved in automatic testing since 1969, when the General Radio Company introduced the first commercially available computer-based board test system. During the next twenty-six years he held a number of sales and marketing positions within the same company, the name of which was changed to GenRad in the mid 1970s. He now runs a consultancy, BD Consulting, on testing, concentrating on the economic analysis of test strategies.

Worldwide Reviews

"Brendan Davis, the author of the very first text on test economics — The Economics of Automatic Testing — has produced an expanded and updated second edition. It has been written in Brendan’s customary highly readable style, reducing to an understandable level the complex issues that are brought to play in this field of analysis. The book is a must for postgraduate courses and, more importantly, for industry professionals, prepared as it is by someone with a wealth of experience in industry ATE requirements."

Professor Tony Ambler
Brunel University

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