Creating maintainable test suites for complex systems. The episode describes some complexities involved with hardware testing, then shares techniques for shifting complexity out of the test cases.<p>* quick overview of what test instruments are
* discussion of API and communication with instruments
* techniques for shifting complexity out of test cases<p>These techniques should apply to all test suites dealing with complex systems:<p>* Creating test cases that are easy to read and debug and tell a story about what is being tested.
* Pushing setup complexity into fixtures.
* Pushing lengthy repetitive API call sets into helper functions.
* Using stable, documented, interfaces.