Life testing is aprocedure intended for facilitating the process of making decisions in the context of industrial reliability. On the other hand,negotiation is aprocess of making joint decisions that has one
of its main foundations in decision theory.A Bayesian sequential model of negotiation in the context of
adversarial life testing is proposed.This model considers a general setting for which a manufacturer
offers a product batch to a consumer.It is assumed that the reliability of the product is measured in
terms of its lifetime.Furthermore, both the manufacturer and the consumer have to use their own
information with respect to the quality of the product.Under these assumptions,two situations can be
reliability.This topic is related to a reliability demonstration problem.The procedure is applied to a class
of distributions that belong to the exponential family.Thus,a unified framework addressing the main
topics in the considered Bayesian model is presented.An illustrative example shows that the proposed
technique can be easily applied in practice.