LabVIEW Test Executive Support
Test Executive Toolkit 4.0 Troubleshooting Guide
The Test Executive 4.0 for LabVIEW 3.1.x was the first version of the Test Executive Toolkit to resemble the current version. This particular version of the Test Executive Toolkit was built ONLY for LabVIEW 3.1.1. Later, National Instruments released the full version of Test Executive 4.0 with the release of LabVIEW 4.0. The major difference in this version of the Toolkit was the removal of all of the diagrams from the Engine library, "Engine.llb".
This version of the Test Executive separated the callbacks and the operator interface from the engine. This meant that it was more modular to find different components of the Test Executive, as well as the different VIs that made up each of these components.
Test VIs in this version of the toolkit could also be loaded dynamically. This was made possible due to the changes in LabVIEW and it made it much easier to modify the amount of memory that the Test Executive needs during sequence execution as each VI can be loaded when the step that requires it is executed.
This version also allowed for a dependency to use logic to combine the results of multiple previous steps to determine whether a step was executed.
The two input string controls for the VIs named "input buffer" and "invocation info" were added in this version so that information could be passed to and from the VIs that were called as steps in the sequence.
The ability to communicate with database systems directly from the Test Executive was added for the first time in this version of the toolkit. In this version the required SQL connectivity was called DatabaseVIEW but this later became the current LabVIEW SQL Toolkit.
The Test Executive Run-Time Engine that is shipped with this version of the Toolkit is built in
LabVIEW 3.1.1. All VIs that are called as part of a step in the Sequence Editor need to have been saved as LabVIEW 3.1.1 VIs. This means that either the VIs were originally written in LabVIEW 3.1.1, or they have been mass-compiled into LabVIEW 3.1.1.
