Test executive speeds sequence development
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 6/1/2007
TestStand 4.0, the test executive software from National Instruments, has several new features designed to shorten test-development cycles. With version 4.0 you can drag and drop tests from a list into a sequence list. It uses reconfigurable panes instead of menus to build test sequences. And TestStand 4.0 lets you control the TestStand Engine by using what National Instruments calls “Expressions.” Previous versions required you to use an ActiveX control to gain access to the software engine.
You can now perform operations such as changing the path of a LabView module with a single expression instead of using six ActiveX steps. Other enhancements include an “Output Window” that lets you post comments as a sequence runs, so you can take notes on system operation that you can use to debug test sequences. You can post error, debug, and warning messages to the development environment.
Base price: $3500. National Instruments, www.ni.com/teststand.
