Accelerate from Making to Manufacturing - Building Open Source Hardware - page 220

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Figure 12.6 Ganged programmer.
The development of SparkFun's own customized ganged programmers has been a pro-
cess characterized by great trial and error. Nevertheless, the cliché about necessity being
the mother of invention has proved true, time and again, in terms of SparkFun's continu-
ous efforts to build high-quality boards as quickly as possible. To learn more about this
progressive journey of testing efficiency improvements, check out the tutorial written by
SparkFun's Testing Guru, Pete Lewis: learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials /constant-innovation-
in-quality-control.
In the end, it all comes down to making the best decisions for your product and the
many customers out there who will want to buy that product. Most of these decisions can
be made by asking the right questions, which will most likely lead to obvious answers in
determining how thorough your testing must be to deliver the quality level that your
product must meet.