System Test Perspective#

How everything interrelates after all components have been explained — the holistic view of the System Test Framework.

Relation to Other Frameworks#

System Test Framework relates to established standards and frameworks such as ISO standards and other industry-specific quality frameworks.

Outside of System Test#

  • Certification
  • Auditing
  • Accreditation
  • Customer support

System Engineering#

System Engineering Principles:

  • Focus on the end goal
  • Involve all stakeholders
  • Define the sustainability issue of interest
  • Break down the problem into manageable work packages
  • Connect the interface points between project requirements and design
  • Define the work environment conducive to participant needs
  • Evaluate the system structure
  • Justify every major stage of the project
  • Integrate sustainability into core functions

Sustainability and Quality#

Sustainability and Quality are interconnected domains that can mutually reinforce organizational objectives. Many quality objectives, like durability, are directly linked with sustainability.

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) can be integrated in established Quality Management Systems (QMS). Operationally there are many overlaps as quality tools and methods can be applied to sustainability goals.

Zero Waste Engineering: a concept which theoretically increases productivity to infinity because every product or component could be reused or recycled.

Philosophical View#

System Test and the Universe

Universe → Existence → Growth → Development → Quality

Just as Product Design seeks to create beauty in products, Product Quality seeks to establish the character of a product.

What Everything Is About

There is a transcendent approach which views quality as an 'innate excellence' — an absolute and universally recognizable attribute that defies precise definition. Almost like 'beauty'. It is understood through experience and represents striving to the best at any given point in time and space.

Quality seems to be something that humans perceive and then put into a cognitive and rational context. It feels like quality as a perception grows with human progress. Perhaps the ultimate goal is that the concept of quality diminishes when development transcends to some higher form.