NI TestStand 3.5 Integrates with LabVIEW 8 and Industry-Standard XML Tools

“At Symtx, we design, manufacture and install hundreds of advanced functional test systems worldwide every year,” said Paul Hiller, chief technology officer of Symtx. “Using NI TestStand, we quickly integrate automated test systems, based on widely adopted tools such as NI LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI and PXI, giving our customers fast, flexible test solutions.”

NI TestStand 3.5 further expands connectivity with other industry standards and tools by delivering the first-ever Automated Test Markup Language (ATML) reporting interface and integration. ATML is a cooperative industry effort to define a collection of XML schemas to represent test information, such as test programs, test asset interoperability and unit under test (UUT) test data, which includes test results and diagnostics procedures. NI actively contributes to the definition of the ATML schemas and delivers the industry’s first ATML TestResults schema interface in TestStand 3.5. As a result, engineers can use NI TestStand 3.5 to collect test data and automatically generate ATML reports to ensure standard data interfacing between test systems.

With the new requirements management integration in NI TestStand 3.5, engineers can link their requirements management software tools, such as Telelogic DOORS, IBM Rational RequisitePro and Microsoft Word and Excel with NI TestStand 3.5, using the upcoming NI Requirements Gateway software to track and trace requirements from documentation to implementation. This feature addresses the growing concern of engineers in many automotive, aerospace and medical organizations to ensure that their test coverage satisfies specific requirements.

NI TestStand 3.5 also includes a new password protection feature, which engineers can use to limit access to sequence files, prevent general viewing and protect intellectual property. Memory corruption detection is also available in NI TestStand 3.5 to monitor system memory when calling test modules. This detection gives developers an improved means for catching costly bugs in their code prior to deployment, which improves overall test quality and minimizes downtime.

About NI TestStand
NI TestStand is a ready-to-run, commercial off-the-shelf test management environment and framework for organizing, controlling and executing automated prototype, validation and manufacturing test systems. Engineers can quickly build test sequences with NI TestStand by incorporating tests written in NI LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Microsoft Visual C/C++, Visual Basic .NET and C#. Built on a high-speed, multithreaded execution engine, NI TestStand delivers the performance to meet most rigorous test throughput requirements. NI TestStand also integrates with NI measurement hardware including modular instruments and switches, offering a complete software and hardware platform for automated test.