1. Testsystem Design
These are some slides taken from a Swedish presentation I did a while ago.
It’s been quick translated to english.
Questions:
Mikael Holmström
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2. Instrument inheritance
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3. Test case inheritance
The debugger functions are in the Test case base class (TCBase), that means all test cases will get this function
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4. Instead of hardcoding channels, connection points where used, these where defined in a configuration file
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5. Seqence file
TEST {
for each $Temp in {85,-30,-20,25}
SetTemperatureApp(28)
TcVcoFreqVsVtuneApp(33) }
SendMailApp(47)
[Settings.SetTemperatureApp(28)]
TestPath=L:\__NEW__\2_Applications\Common\SetTemperatureApp.vi
in.Temperature(° C)=$Temp
[Settings.TcVcoFreqVsVtuneApp(33)]
....
The sequence file had to be TEXT based and possible to write/modify with notepad.
The sequence file where executed by a LabVIEW application I called ”ScriptRunner”
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6. Graphic sequence editor
To make it easier to create text based sequence files, I developed a graphical user interface,
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7. GUI to configure input parameters to a test case (VI) This also shows how to connect a variable from the sequece to a input parameter
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8. Debugger
The test cases had an build in debugger
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