Creating Deployments

When you create a full or patch deployment, the TestStand Deployment Utility completes the following tasks:

• Analyzes the test system to generate a list of source files and dependencies.
• Creates a deployable image by copying the list of files generated during analysis to a directory hierarchy under a single root directory.
• (Optional) Builds an installer or package distribution that contains all the files from the deployable image and NI drivers and other third-party components.

You can create a patch deployment at any point after the full deployment creation process. When you change to patch deployment mode, options in the deployment utility might change as well.