So I'm working on verifying a new PCB, and the good news is it is verified! It was a huge pain in the ass though. I have some BJT's on switching duty for a group of relays, and for the first time I actually had a bad BJT. Maybe this is actually more common than I thought, but I've never run into it before. After a few hours of trying everything else, I clipped it out and popped a new one in and everything was totally functional.
So what do y'all do for component testing? Is this actually rare enough to not worry about too much? Do you bother testing every component? Is there any hot tech for component testing you like? I would love to not have to deal with this shit again