Many years ago, Dr. Philip E. Coyle III, the long-experienced, former DOD director of operational test and evaluation, cautioned program managers (PMs) about program risk in the new era of ...

Operational testing is defined as the field testing, under realistic conditions, of an item, component or system to determine its effectiveness and suitability. By “operational testing” we do not mean ...

Adaptive random testing (ART) is an innovative methodology that refines traditional random testing by deliberately distributing test cases across the entire input domain. By utilising diversity ...

A small group of military and civilian employees met in a III Corps Headquarters storage room on Oct. 1, 1969, launching a unique equipment test organization that has now spanned 50 years. Those ...

An F-35A Lightning II pulls away from a KC-10 Extender after a refueling exercise above the Atlantic Ocean on July 12, 2018. (Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The F-35 ...