Your lesson
≈ 240 min
Lesson 10 · Weeks 17-18
Diagnostic testing and evaluation
What you'll learn
Test the finished system properly and judge it honestly against the criteria you set.
What you're doing today
- Design tests that produce data across a range, not a single yes or no.
- For each test: purpose, expected result and why, method and equipment, actual result, and any discrepancy.
- Compare your results to the datasheet or to theory and explain the differences.
- Evaluate your system against the criteria you wrote, using your test data as evidence.
- Evaluate your use of the process: what worked, what did not, what you would do differently.
- Propose improvements to the system and to how you worked, with reasons.
Before you pack up
If a stranger used your system tomorrow, what would go wrong first?
