Automating Testing

[Vijay.I]

I have a board which consists of a Display(touch screen), SDRAM, Speaker & few Keypads. I can communicate with the board using RS-232 & USB. I want to test all these using LAB View 7.0. Basically I want to automate testing i.e. give input using lab view to the board compare things & analyses result

1) How do I do it?
2) Do I have to write some script or are there any specific tool available?
3) If there are any tool then how do I use them?
4) Are there any reference manual available?
5) How do I interface Lab View with all these?
6) Do I have to use any specific module of lab view?

Test Solution Lab View Tools Reference Manual
Battery ? ? ?
Touch Scr ? ? ?
Memor ? ? ?
Speaker ? ? ?
RAM ? ? ?
Keypad ? ? ?

[Joe_H]

If you can communicate with them using RS232 and you are able to send and receive the commands neede for testing. Then all you need is to use the VISA read and write. Look in the help for examples using the serial port for more info on this. As for automating this right now lets just work on getting labview talking to it right now.

[JenK]

What Joe said is correct. If you can communicate via RS 232 and USB then you can use the VISA functions in LabVIEW to communicate with your instruments. If you are not very familiar with LabVIEW the following link contains a three hour tutorial that could be very useful:
http://www.ni.com/devzone/lvzone/fundamentals.htm

There are several examples that are shipped with LabVIEW for your convenience. You can find them by opening LabVIEW go to Help>>Find Examples. This will launch the NI Example Finder. You can search in here for example VI's that contain VISA programming.

I hope this helps.

JenK