National Instruments Corporation

Hjalmar Perez

James A Grey

Kurt Mandeville

Paul Packebush

A test executive sequence may be created by including a plurality of test executive steps in the test executive sequence in response to user input to a sequence editor. At least a subset of the test executive steps in the test executive sequence may be configured to call user-supplied code modules. In one embodiment, one or more expressions may be configured for one or more steps in the test executive sequence, where the one or more expressions evaluate to result values to be logged when the step is executed during execution of the test executive sequence. In another embodiment, one or more parameters of one or more user-supplied code modules called by steps in the test executive sequence may be configured to be logged when the test executive sequence is executed.

Test executive system with automatic expression logging and parameter logging

A system and method for testing a group of related products or devices. According to one embodiment, the user may first manually create a base test sequence, and child test sequences may then be created based on the base test sequence. The user may include various steps in the base test sequence, such that the base test sequence includes steps that need to be common to most or all of the child test sequences. The user may also configure parameters or properties for each step in the base test sequence, such that the parameter configuration is what is required for most or all of the child test sequences. Initial child test sequences may then be automatically created as instances of the base test sequence. The user may then manually edit the instances of the base test sequence to produce the desired child test sequences, such that each child test sequence is configured to appropriately test a particular product to which the child test sequence corresponds. For example, the user may change a parameter configuration for one or more steps in the child test sequence, may add a step to or remove a step from the child test sequence, etc. In the preferred embodiment, the child test sequences may also be automatically changed or updated in various ways. For example, the user may manually add a new step to the base test sequence, and in response the new step may be automatically added to each child test sequence. As another example, the user may manually change the parameter configuration for a step in the base test sequence, and in response the parameter configuration change may be automatically propagated to each child test sequence.

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Hjalmar Perez