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