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1. A computer-implemented method for creating a design plan to test a product characteristic, the method comprising:
determining, by a computing device, (i) a plurality of factors corresponding to different parameters for testing the product characteristic, (ii) a plurality of levels corresponding to different settings of each factor, and (iii) one or more partitions for testing the product characteristic; decomposing, by the computing device, the plurality of factors to generate a plurality of level sets, wherein each level set comprises zero or more levels assignable to each factor at each partition; generating, by the computing device, a plurality of orthogonal arrays by distributing elements of each matrix using at least one Latin square matrix, wherein (i) each orthogonal array corresponds to a partition and (ii) an element of each orthogonal array indexes a level set from the plurality of level sets produced from the decomposition; and performing, by the computing device, at each of the partitions, steps comprising:
mapping each row of the corresponding orthogonal array to the plurality level sets to form a combination of level sets, wherein each row of the orthogonal array determines the formation of the combination by specifying the level sets to combine; andconcatenating the plurality of combinations of level sets generated from the rows of the orthogonal array to form an active matrix, wherein each row of the active matrix specifies a level of each of the plurality of factors for testing the product characteristic at the corresponding partition. |
