Following the anthrax mail attack on the eastern United States in September 2001, emergency response organizations across the country were inundated with “white-powder” incidents. All but a few of the ...

Not all devices get tested the same way anymore, and that’s a good thing. Quality, test costs, and yield have motivated product engineers to adopt test processes that fall under the umbrella of ...

New techniques for finding process faults in surface-mount boards speed up and simplify test development. The techniques don't do away with the need to design boards for testability, however. As ...

Are you grappling with managing your test data in an automation framework? Here’s a fact: effective Test Data Management (TDM) can significantly improve your software testing process. This ...

Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years, is critical to advances in computing technology. For decades, fabs have ...

Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding ...

RPA vs. test automation: What are the differences? Your email has been sent Automation tools have since adopted 4.0 technologies in their evolution. Part of this adoption uses RPA, artificial ...

This article originally appeared on July 10, 2019. Automation World has been following the developments of the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) since the group formed in 2017 in response to a ...