LabVIEW Test Executive Support
Test Executive Toolkit 5.1.1 Troubleshooting Guide
This version is the most recent release of the Test Executive. In this version National Instruments responded to many of the suggestions sent by users of previous versions of the Test Executive. These are described in the Release Notes and in the LabVIEW Test Executive Reference Manual.
Additionally, this version of the Test Executive comes with the ability to build the
Test Executive Run-Time Engine. This was something that was not previously advisable because it is a fairly complex process, but in LabVIEW 5.1 users can create a "BUILD" file that stores all of the different settings required to build an executable. This means that instead of a user needed to complete a series of steps to build the run-time system, a user only has to load this "BUILD" file
and then click a button to build the Test Executive Run-Time System. The major benefit with this approach is that it is no longer necessary to download a new version of the Test Executive Run-Time System every time there is a new version of LabVIEW. It is now acceptable simply to build a new version of the Test Executive Run-Time System when LabVIEW is upgraded. These changes mean that all of the VIs that are called as steps in the sequence files MUST be mass-compiled into LabVIEW 5.1 because versions of LabVIEW previous to 5.1 did not offer such features.
Additionally, there is no Test Executive Run-Time Engine shipped with this version of the toolkit. Distributing the LabVIEW Test Executive 5.1.1 requires building a run-time system, using the method described in the release notes. This also implies that all VIs that are called as part of a step in the Sequence Editor need to have been saved as LabVIEW 5.1 VIs. This means that either the VIs were originally written in LabVIEW 5.1, or they have been mass-compiled into LabVIEW 5.1. Using the build file described above, it is possible to upgrade to any future version of LabVIEW and rebuild the Test Executive Run-Time System.
