Manufacturing test requirement design specification (MTRD) is a document which specifies how the test is going to be implemented on a new/upcoming product. It specifies what test will be ready during different build processes, the percentage of coverage for each stages of those build process, and how the data will be gathered for error yield inspection (among others).

The MTRD is usually developed by the manufacturing team (more specifically, the manufacturing test engineer

Test Engineer

A hardware test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would test a particular product in manufacturing, quality assurance or related area like RMA department, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications...

s) and presented over to the program managers. The schedules and deliverables are then discussed over by different teams like the hardware engineering, software engineering, the quality team and the operations team after which if everyone agrees, it will be signed and submitted to some kind of document control.

See also

• Specification (technical standard)
  Specification (technical standard)
  A specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service. Should a material, product or service fail to meet one or more of the applicable specifications, it may be referred to as being out of specification;the abbreviation OOS may also be used...