National Instruments Corporation

Patrick Williams

James A Grey

Scott Richardson

David Rohacek

A system and method for dynamically determining a plurality of possible or valid parameter values and automatically including one of the parameter values in a software program. In one embodiment, the plurality of possible parameter values may be dynamically determined based on a hardware configuration of a computer system. A graphical user interface for selecting a parameter value may be displayed. The graphical user interface may visually indicate the plurality of dynamically determined possible parameter values and may allow a user to easily select one of the possible parameter values for inclusion in the software program. User input may be received to the graphical user interface to select a first parameter value from the plurality of possible parameter values. The first parameter value may be programmatically included in the software program in response to the first parameter value being selected.

Parameter assistant for automatically specifying parameter values for a software program

A system and method for importing and exporting test executive values from or to a database. A test executive may provide the user various places, referred to as variables and properties, in which data values can be stored. These data values may affect execution of a test executive sequence. Variables may be global to a sequence file or local to a particular sequence. Each step in a sequence can have properties. The user may include a Property Loader step in a sequence, which is operable to dynamically, i.e., at run time, load property and/or variable values from a database. The Property Loader step may be placed in a setup group of the sequence, and the step(s) whose properties are configured may be placed in a main group of the sequence, so that when the sequence is executed the steps in the main group are configured with appropriate property values before running. The test executive may also enable a user to interactively, e.g., through a user interface menu item, request variable and property values associated with a sequence to be imported from or exported to a database. For example, after exporting values to a database, the values may later be used to dynamically configure a test executive sequence.

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