Review of Accelerated Degradation Testing and Accelerated Life Testing

Accelerated degradation testing(ADT) and accelerated life testing(ALT) were two important kinds of reliability accelerated testing technology for reliability assessment of high reliability and long life products.The basic concepts of ADT and ALT were introduced,then the comparison between ADT and ALT technologies were described.The state of arts in this research concerned was then briefly reviewed.Finally,the possible direc-tions and some suggestions were given for further research in ADT and ALT.