People, process, and technology innovation

The benefits of changes in workforce, processes, and technology innovation in an organization are discussed. Technology innovation the first area of change test engineers and mangers consider, which translates to major test system improvements and cost savings. Innovative personnel changes are found in maximizing the strengths, both technical and personal, within an organization. Realigning the strengths of test engineers and managers can produce major results with the same headcount. Each organization has a unique set of processes, which need to be improved, to ensure the consistent test coverage and quality of its products. One key process area for significant improvement is collaboration between design and production test. The technology and architecture of an organization's automated test systems presents major innovation opportunities in test. New PC and embedded technologies such as graphical system level programming, PCI Express, multicore processors, and FPGAs offer more options to increase the flexibility of automated systems.