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There’s a quick way to tell if a test system’s data architecture is production-ready.

Look for the decoder.

Almost every development team builds one — usually an Excel workbook or small script that loads a test log file and makes it readable.

Every test system generates data.

Very few generate manufacturing intelligence.

Flat file logging is common in hardware test environments because it reflects execution order — a chronological record of what happened during test. In development, that is sufficient.

In production, it is not.