5 Software Engineering Tips for Test Engineers

	November 16, 2010
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5 Software Engineering Tips for Test Engineers Time in Your Programming Language

Modern test systems are relying heavily on software-based solutions, so test engineers need the best practices and tools traditionally used in the software realm.

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Share: Jeff Kodosky, NI business and technology fellow, cofounder, and “father of LabVIEW,” is an expert on the concept of time as it relates to programming languages.

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Tech Tips

Optical Sensing – Breaking Conventional Sensing Rules
You can eliminate many of the challenges associated with electrical sensors by using light and standard optical fiber instead of electricity and copper wire.
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Webcast: Robot Puppets and Complex Control Applications
Magnus Egerstedt, professor of engineering at Georgia Tech, explains how despite robot puppets sounding like an oxymoron, they can be used to abstract the complexity from controlling complex mechanical systems.
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Advanced Built-In Analysis and Signal Processing in NI LabVIEW
With the comprehensive analysis capabilities of LabVIEW software, you can perform all the signal processing you need without wasting time moving data between incompatible tools or writing your own analysis routines.
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You're Never Alone Developing a LabVIEW Application
Day and night, LabVIEW users around the world are helping each other quickly solve engineering challenges so everyone can develop faster.
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Community Highlights

Example Code: Navigate Tab Control With Custom Buttons
If you don't like the look of the tab control selector, use this example to make your user interface unique by creating your own custom buttons.
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YouTube: LabVIEW Knows Which Way the Wind Blows
See how Siemens Wind Power harnessed the strengths of LabVIEW graphical system design to test turbines, ensuring they're functional every time the wind blows.
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Improve Development With FPGA Design Patterns and Templates
Get LabVIEW templates that you can use to take advantage of different NI CompactRIO and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design patterns, such as running a state machine in a single-cycle Timed Loop (SCTL).
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Win Cash Prizes and Trips With Your Student Design Project
Whether it's an inexpensive medical device or a complex underwater autonomous vehicle, we want students incorporating LabVIEW into their design projects to enter the LabVIEW Student Design Competition for a chance to win $2,000 USD and a trip to NIWeek.
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What's New

NI Introduces New NI FlexRIO FPGA Adapter Modules
These user-configurable modules extend PXI software-defined instrumentation and you can use them to easily implement FPGA technology for advanced automated test and measurement systems.
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GE Energy Project Fast Tracked by NI Certified Engineers
Knowing that David Hakey was a Certified LabVIEW Architect gave managers the confidence that he could rapidly update and expand a functional test system at GE Energy.
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Enhancing Tactile Sensation With LabVIEW and USB DAQ
Learn how Kimberly-Clark is improving touch sensation in elderly patients by applying controlled electric current with LabVIEW and NI USB data acquisition (DAQ) hardware.
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Events and Training
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Nov. 18 Webcast: Four Steps to Success in Prototyping a Medical Device »

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