LabVIEW Test Executive Support
The Original Test Executive Toolkit Troubleshooting Guide
The original version of the Test Executive was built in LabVIEW 3.0. This version of the LabVIEW Test Executive Toolkit was quite different from what exists in the more recent versions.
When the original Test Executive Toolkit was released, LabVIEW did not have the ability to lock diagrams with passwords. Additionally it was designed as a template for building a test station environment. Because it did not ship with a Run-Time System, there needed to be a way to build a Test Executive that would run independently of LabVIEW. This version of the Test Executive accomplished this by compiling the Test Executive into an executable.
In this version of the Test Executive, none of the test VIs are loaded dynamically. All of the test VIs are loaded just once when the sequence is loaded in the sequence editor.
There were no advanced dependency settings in the original version of the Test Executive. A test had to depend on the result of one other test passing or failing. There was no way to use logic to combine the results from multiple tests to form the dependency for a test.
This version of the Test Executive did not have any additional buffers that could be used to pass information into the VIs. This means that there were no "input buffer" or "invocation info" input strings.
It is possible to continue to upgrade the VIs in this version of the Test Executive to the current version of LabVIEW, but this process will not include all of the new features that were added to the later versions of the Test Executive. For this reason it is preferable to upgrade all versions of the Test Executive either to the current version of 5.1.1 or upgrade to the new National Instruments TestStand.
