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36. Designing for Effective Test Point Access and Coverage Test points are essential for manufacturing test, board bring-up, in-circuit programming, field troubleshooting, and long-term maintenance. Without well-placed, accessible test points, probing for signals or voltages is difficult, slow, or unreliable. Poor coverage can lead to undiagnosed faults, lower yield, and frustration for technicians and engineers alike. A proper test point strategy ensures your board can be efficiently tested, debugged, and repaired throughout its lifecycle. When And Where To Apply Apply test point planning to every net or function that must be measured, programmed, or debugged, including power rails, grounds, resets, clocks, communication buses (I2C, SPI, UART), programming interfaces, and critical analog/digital signals. Begin planning after placement, but before or during initial routing. PCB testing with flying probes