Establishing testability standards

One of the causitive factors relating to the lack of manifest testability en countered in Units Under Test (UUT) which are being inducted into the Department of Defense (DOD) inventory is the lack of definitive requirements and controls imposed by the customer on the vendor. The purpose of this paper will be to clarify some of the key testability issues from the perspective of a DOD customer, in general, and the Naval Air Systems Command, in particular. The paper will then proceed to recommend the manner in which these testability issues and needs can be more effectively described and controlled by the customer in order to help vendor organizations understand and provide for the test ability needs required for effective support of modern UUTs.