Your company has a test strategy in place. Your test architects have done an excellent job in putting together a solid software framework that takes your test engineers’ needs into consideration. Now that you know your constraints as well as priorities, you are ready to start designing your test system. The first step is to determine the measurement requirements for your device(s) under test. This section outlines the various factors to consider when evaluating the measurement needs of your test system. It also examines the process the National Instruments test engineering team underwent to choose instrumentation for the automated test.