The students' routine begins with being assigned a mission during the academic portion of the day. They prepare for the mission, fly the mission and then come back to write a report evaluating it. More complicated, however, is the planning involved in the whole process. It starts the moment students are assigned an exercise. They must define mission-relatable tasks and how hard it is to do those tasks in order to write a report afterwards.
Reports are paramount in learning the testing process.
In the report you can't just say there's something wrong with the system or aircraft, or that something could be better. You have to explain in great detail how it can be better. Now I tend to do that in everyday life, and it drives people crazy. Testers are trained to look at the smallest details of many different aircraft. The testing process taught at TPS makes this possible.