Toolkits to the Rescue

Toolkits to the Rescue

There?s no reason to start from scratch in the SQA business, because there are several good toolkits available. National Instruments offers two packages that you will find valuable, and this chapter will help you as well.


	?	The Professional G Developers Toolkit is the most important tool for quality LabVIEW software development. In fact, I consider it an absolute requirement for major projects. Costing about $700, the toolkit helps you manage large projects with multiple developers. It includes source code control (SCC), software metrics to measure G code complexity, tools for printing VI hierarchies, tools for managing VI libraries, a style guide, and a documentation package that discusses software engineering techniques. I?ll talk more about its capabilities in this chapter. Also, you can expect more features in the toolkit as time goes on; software products are far from static!


	?	The Unit Test and Validation Procedures Toolkit helps you with the testing phase of your project by supplying semiautomatic test frameworks and LabVIEW-based logging of test results. It was originally written by Ken Lisles of Instrument Systems because his project had to meet the QA requirements of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The package also includes a style guide with recommendations for designing your code for testability.


	?	This chapter includes a package I call LV9000 , which consists of a set of model documents for working under an ISO 9000-grade quality program and includes all phases of a project...

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