COMPONENT TESTING PLAN CONSIDERING DISTINGUISHABLE AND UNDISTINGUISHABLE COMPONENTS

A component testing plan considers both distinguishable components and undistinguishable components for each of the distinguishable components. In addition to distinguishable and undistinguishable components, inputs to the system include a level of customer demand, using component-based demand forecasting, and what test types are to be performed. The system then determines a set of combinatorial test options for each of the test types and a cycle time for each combinatorial test option. The system then cognitively develops a component testing plan including a listing of combinatorial test(s) of the set of combinatorial test options for each test type to be performed and how many times to perform each combinatorial test(s) on a testing machine with a known capacity in order to minimize a total cycle time for all of the test types and a number of the testing machine needed; and implementing the component testing plan on a set of test components on a production line.