How can I control the execution of a test in TestStand with VeriStand ?

[AltMarianne]

I'm working on a system which triggers warnings. When one of these warnings is triggered, I have to pause the test sequence.

The warnings are declared as alarms in VeriStand and the test procedure is running in TestStand. So I wonder if I could ask the pause of the TestStand running in the VeriStand alarms procedure.

Has someone this answer?

[Aurel.Co]

Hi AltMarianne,

The response of your question is no.

You can't stop or pause teststand execution from Veristand when one of your alarm is triggered.

It will be possible if from Teststand you called Veristand code module and checked the Alarms 's state.

I hope having answer your question.

Regards.

[AltMarianne]

Thanks for this response even if I get no solution relating to my concern.

To my mind, checking the alarm from TestStand does not allow us pausing the test sequence execution, since TestStand is not a real-time software.

Do you agree with me?

Regards,

Marianne

[Aurel.Co]

By Using the Teststand API you can control the execution of your sequence.

Since teststand is not real time software you might have a jitter between the time where you get the alarme and the time where you pause your teststand execution.

Regards

[AltMarianne]

Merci de me répondre aussi rapidement. Je suggère d'échanger en français si cela ne vous ennuie pas.

Nous avons aussi envisagé la solution d'importer des alarmes définies sous VeriStand, si la solution de contrôler VeriStand depuis TestStand n'était pas réalisable. Nous devons scruter les alarmes en continu. Nous avons donc envisagé faire tourner une séquence en parallèle de la séquence de test proprement dite. Auriez-vous un exemple à nous donner afin d'avoir une vue concrète de ce que l'on peut faire et une réponse à notre problématique?