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Best Practices and Test Planning Guides

Document Title
Preface Files
Test Planning Handout
Guide to Developing an Effective Test Strategy
Test Design Process Slide
STAT COE Course FAQ
STAT COE Course Syllabi
T&E Strategy Enterprise-, executive-, and program-level perspectives on T&E
Applying STAT to Defense Business Systems
Applying STAT within the DevSecOps Lifecycle
Assessing Rigor in Test Plans
Bayesian Methods in Test and Evaluation: A Decision Maker's Perspective
Best Practice for Effective Requirements and Measures for Autonomous Defense Systems
Critical STAT Questions DOD Leadership Should Ask
Evaluating Delivered Test Plans For STAT Content
Implementing Rigor in Test Plans
Quantifying STAT Impact in DoD Test Design
Specifying STAT Requirements In Defense Contracts
Survey of AI-Enabled Tools for Application in Test & Evaluation
Testing via Sequential Experiments
Understanding Requirements for Effective Test Planning
Workshop Report: 2015 Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems (DASD(DT&E))
Workshop Report: 2019 Advancements in Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems
Workshop Report: 2022 Advancements in Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems
Test Design For a particular test activity, progress from writing test objectives to creating a sequence of test points; includes Design of Experiments
Binary Response and Single Stress Factor Test Methods
Categorical Data in a Designed Experiment Part 1: Avoiding Categorical Data
Categorical Data in a Designed Experiment Part 2: Sizing a design with a Binary Response
Categorical Data in a Designed Experiment Part 3: Logistic Regression
Categorical Data in a Designed Experiment Part 4: Estimating Power of Test Designs for a Binary Response
Classical Designs: Full Factorial Designs
Classical Designs: Fractional Factorial Designs
Computer Experiments: Space Filling Design and Gaussian Process Modeling
Controlling Conditions is Key for Meaningful Operational Test Results
Designed Experiments in a Heavily Constrained Operational Space
Developing Effective Test Objectives
Iterative Developmental Testing Considerations
Lessons Learned from an Incompletely Randomized Test Design
Quantifying Test Risk Using Design of Experiments
Radar Detection Performance using Design of Experiments - Case Study
Randomization: A Core Principle of DOE
STAT Planning Tool Guide
Study Guide to Design of Experiments Learning Series by J. Stuart Hunter, Lessons 1-9
Study Guide to Design of Experiments Learning Series by J. Stuart Hunter, Lessons 10-15
Test Design Comparison and Selection
Test Facility DOE Survey
The Test Design for Ship Defense Against a Small Boat Threat
Understanding the Signal to Noise Ratio in Design of Experiments
Using OC Curves to Balance Cost and Risk
Data Analysis and Statistics Statistical methods for exploring, analyzing, and making conclusions from data
An Introduction to Mixture Designs
Bayesian Model Checking
Calculating a Consensus of Opinion
Confidence Intervals for the Median and Other Percentiles
Equivalence Testing
Interpreting Confidence Intervals
MATLAB and R Integration with JMP
Model Building Process Part 1: Checking Model Assumptions Version 1.1
Model Building Process Part 2: Factor Assumptions
Model Building Process Part 3: Model Goodness Metrics
Nonparametric Tolerance Intervals Best Practice
Sampling from Arbitrary Distributions using the Rejection Method
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Statistics Reference Document Series Part 3: Inferential Statistics
Statistics Reference Series Part 1: Descriptive Statistics
Statistics Reference Series Part 2: Probability
Survey & Questionnaire Design
Tolerance Intervals Demystified
Understanding Analysis of Variance
Using Regression Trees
Using Statistical Intervals to Assess System Performance
Reliability RAM (Reliability, Availability, and Maintenance) topics -- Includes strategy, design, and analysis
Availability Confidence Intervals from Bootstrap Sampling
Bayesian Reliability for Complex Systems
Impact of Test Time on Estimation of Mean Time Between Failure
Practical Bayesian Analysis for Failure Time Data
Reliability Test Planning for Mean Time Between Failures
Reliability Test Planning Utility Guide
Reliability Test Plans for Binary Responses: Excel Tool Guide
Software Testing For any system where software facilitates mission accomplishment
Automated Software Test Implementation Guide for Managers and Practitioners
Automated Software Testing Practices and Pitfalls
Combinatorial Test Designs
Software Reliability Fundamentals Best Practice
STAT for Software Testing
Case Studies Real world COE applications
B-52 Case Study
Case Study SBIRS Block 20
Case Study: Effects of Incomplete Randomization and Test Dependence in Flight Helmet Testing
Parametric Survivability Analysis Case Study
Split Plot Design of Experiments-Mortar Vehicle Ballistic Similitude Case Study
Test design strategy for DCGSN Website Teaser
Test design strategy for MGUE IST
Advancement in Test & Analysis for Autonomous Systems ATEAS
Digital Engineering
Modeling and Simulation Using models, emulators, simulators, or other system representations to create data to use for decision making
Model Selection and Use of Empiricism in Digital Engineering
STAT COE MRL White Paper: A Conceptual Framework for the Establishment of Model Readiness Levels

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