Collect the following information before starting to design a testplan. By having these benchmarks, you can budget your time and focus on how to best test your device.

• Product Time Schedule
• Test Development Budget
• Test Time Goal
• NDAs
• Source Control Drawings
• Block Diagram
• Test Specifications
• Test Procedures
• Part Physical Specifications (Pin outs, Pin 1 location, etc.)
• Socket Specifications
• Description for each Pin
• Software Control Specifications
• Part Startup Procedure
• Application Board and DUTs
• Application Board Schematic
• Test Results from Application Board
• mean, standard deviation and correlation values
• Tester Specifications