LabView Use

[NI_Not_A_Guru]

I recently completed the online training for LabView.  I'd like to learn more about the application of LabView in a product environment. Is it for simualtion of a system, software or hardware products under development?  Is it for simulating test equipment to inject signals into the equipment under test?  Can it be used in the testing of mobile applications, web interfaces and user interfaces?

[GerdW]

Hi Guru,

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@NI_Not_A_Guru wrote:

Is it for simualtion of a system, software or hardware products under development?  Is it for simulating test equipment to inject signals into the equipment under test?  Can it be used in the testing of mobile applications, web interfaces and user interfaces?

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Yes.

[altenbach]

After completing the training, you should be aware that it is spelled LabVIEW (note the letter case). 😄

LabVIEW is a fully featured programming language, so it can do anything you want with it, even without interfacing to any external hardware. In the end, everything is just bits, one way or another.

A program takes inputs (user interaction, data from a sensor, data from the web, etc.etc.), processes them and acts according to whatever it is designed to do.

There is a rich set of hardware and associated drivers that can be used for input and output and there are many toolkits and modules that lets you take thing even further such as running on an embedded real time target or FPGA.

For some examples, start reading here, but of course you can use it for whatever you want. What do you have in mind? Once you have a specific plan, post again and we'll give more specific advice.

[NI_Not_A_Guru]

Thanks for the very quick reply.   I am looking at using it in the automation testing of user interfaces for mobile applications for IOT based products.  This is in the proposal phase of making a pitch to a firm wanting assistance with evolving from a manual based testing approach to an automated testing approach at the mobile and web interfaces.

[billko]

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@NI_Not_A_Guru wrote:

Thanks for the very quick reply.   I am looking at using it in the automation testing of user interfaces for mobile applications for IOT based products.  This is in the proposal phase of making a pitch to a firm wanting assistance with evolving from a manual based testing approach to an automated testing approach at the mobile and web interfaces.

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Even though all programming languages can do all things, not all languages do all things equally well.  This happens to be in LabVIEW's wheelhouse.  LabVIEW should be well-suited for this kind of task.

[NI_Not_A_Guru]

Perfect !   Can you point me to sample projects and/or templates that show how to design a LabView Program to provide an example of this type of usage.

[billko]

If you have LabVIEW installed, then you have access to its extensive example library.  There are examples of how to set up various kinds of automated testing.

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