Learn about updates—including new features and behavior changes—introduced in each version of the Battery Test System Software.

Battery Test System 2024 Q1 Changes

Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in Battery Test System 2024 Q1.

Battery Test System Software New Features

  • Added support for the Battery Test System Software Toolkit 2024 Q1
  • Added support for VeriStand and TestStand 2023
  • Added capability to transfer NI-XNET log files to the SystemLink server

Battery Test System Software Toolkit New Features

  • Added support for VCOM 2024 Q2
  • Added capability to support the setup of custom scales and calibration files in VeriStand

Battery Test System Server Software New Feature

  • Added capability to support the setup of custom scales and calibration files in VeriStand
Note You must have both the Battery Test System Software Toolkit 2024 Q1 and Battery Test System Server Software 2024 Q1 installed for the new features listed to function correctly.

Upgrade Notes

  • NI recommends that you upgrade the BTS Server and Lab PCs at the same time.
  • NI recommends that you uninstall the previous versions of TestStand and VeriStand before installing Battery Test System Software 2024 Q1.
  • If you do not remove the previous versions of TestStand and VeriStand before installing the upgrade, you must complete the following steps after installing Battery Test System Software 2024 Q1:
    1. Run TestStand Version Selector and activate TestStand 2023.
    2. Launch and close TestStand 2023 64-bit.
    3. Launch and close VeriStand 2023.
    4. Restart the machine.

    If you have multiple versions of TestStand installed, you may encounter operational oddities while using the Battery Test System Software. In this case, run the TestStand Version Selector again, and verify that TestStand 2023 is activated.

  • Rebuild any LabVIEW code, such as VIs, libraries, or models, using LabVIEW 2023. Update the package files that include this LabVIEW code.
  • If you have a .teststation XML file that references a VCOM custom device, complete the following steps:
    1. Locate the following line in the XML file:
      <Instrument Name="Vehicle Communication Custom Device" Type="Vehicle Communication" RootChannelPath="Targets/Controller/Custom Devices/PROVEtechRBS" ConfigurationInstrument.ConfigurationPath="Vehicle Communications.xml" />
    2. Replace the line you located in step 1 with the following line:
      <Instrument Name="VCOM" Type="Vehicle Communications" RootChannelPath="Targets/Controller/Custom Devices/VCOM" ConfigurationInstrument.ConfigurationPath="Vehicle Communications.xml" />
    3. Reload the package file.

Battery Test System 2023 Q2 Changes

Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in Battery Test System 2023 Q2.

Battery Test System Software New Feature

  • Added support for the Battery Test System Software Toolkit 2023 Q2

Battery Test System Software Toolkit New Feature

  • Enhancements for the test engineer workflow for test and DUT development

Battery Test System Server Software New Features

  • SystemLink Enterprise support​
  • New Battery Test System Server Software (Enterprise) for installation in Kubernetes clusters​
  • MongoDB storage for storing battery test system package files and test plans
  • Enhancements for the test engineer workflow for test development, debugging and execution​
  • Web UI support for loading packages into the server
  • IT administrator enhancements for retrieving log files and restarting the server

Battery Test System 2022 Q4 Changes

Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in Battery Test System 2022 Q4.

Battery Test System Software New Feature

  • Added support for the Battery Test System Software Toolkit 2022 Q4

Battery Test System Software Toolkit New Feature

  • Added ability to reconnect from the Web UI to a running test

Battery Test System Server Software New Features

  • Added publishing DUT port channels as SystemLink tags
  • Added Web UI performance improvements for large channel-count systems
  • Added ability for common files to be shared across multiple Test Station and DUT packages
  • Added attaching the socket number and test sequence name as metadata to the data log files
  • Added ability to specify a custom name to be displayed for test parameters in the Web UI
  • Added reconnecting from the Web UI to a running test

Battery Test System 2022 Q2 Patch 1 Changes

Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in Battery Test System 2022 Q2 Patch 1.

Battery Test System Software New Feature

  • Added support for the Battery Test System Software Toolkit 2022 Q2 Patch 1

Battery Test System Software Toolkit New Features

  • Added XNET database support
  • Improved SystemLink support for better performance, including permitting only select channels to be published as tags
  • Added option to Embedded Data Logger to attach test related metadata to the log files
  • Improved Black Box Recorder support so that the diagnostic file is attached to the SystemLink test results associated with a Test Plan

Battery Test System Server Software New Features

  • Added Vehicle Communications Toolkit support
  • Added option to specify instrument channel mappings for to-be-created user channels
  • Added XNET database support
  • Improved SystemLink support for better performance, including permitting only select channels to be published as tags
  • Added option to Embedded Data Logger to attach test related metadata to the log files
  • Improved Black Box Recorder support so that the diagnostic file is attached to the SystemLink test results associated with a Test Plan
  • Added option to leave a system definition file deployed when a test finishes executing
  • Added support for multiple instances of a BTS Server running on a machine