Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1Scope
2Normativereferences
3Definitions
4Symbols
5Conditionsforavailabilityperformancetesting
5.1Dependabilitymanagementandspecification
5.2Statisticalprocessconditions
5.3Definitionofstates
5.4Classificationoftimes
5.5Classificationoffailures
5.6Testconditions
6Datacollection
7Timedistributions
7.1Distributionassumptions
7.2Trendtest
7.3Decisionalternativesincaseofnon-validity
ofassumptions
8Compliancetestingplanning
9Compliancetestplans
9.1Testplan1-Fixednumberoffailures
9.2Testplan2-Fixedtimelongerthan15meanup
times
9.3Testplan3-Fixedtime(U<0.05)
9.4Testplan4-Sequentialtest
10Testreport
10.1Testlogsanddatarecords
10.2Failurereports
10.3Failuresummaryrecord
10.4Replacementunitsandsparepartsinventory
(optional)
10.5Finalreport
Annexes
ATablesA.1toA.4
BNumericalexamples
CBibliography Abstract
Describes techniques for availability performance testing of frequently maintained items when the availability measure used is either steady-state availability or steady-state unavailability. Applicable to compliance testing of the steady-state availability of items attaining only two states, up-state and down-state.
