Interfacing LabVIEW with Mercury Test Director

[mfitzsimons]

Has anyone out there tried and succeeded directly interfacing LabVIEW to Mercury Test Director?  The request Du Jour is to have LabVIEW pull test cases from Test Director, run the test in LabVIEW, then have LabVIEW update the final test result in Test Director.  Let me know if this is possible.

Thanks,

Matt

[Travis_M.]

Hello,

I didn’t investigate the capabilities of that software completely, but LabVIEW has several ways it can interface with other software packages.  The most likely way you would go about this (if no other pre-made solutions exist, and I don’t see any that have been created/supported by NI) would be to establish a means for communicating with the software.  Then determine how to use the interface from LabVIEW.  I think your best bet is ActiveX, but you might also be able to get away with other options.  Without knowing more about that software I don’t think I’ll be of much help.  Feel free to check out the following link about external code and LabVIEW: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/4161F118BF99CCE686256AB7006A68EB.  

You may not be interested, but NI-TestStand might be a perfect software package for your needs – and it interfaces beautifully with LabVIEW.  Check out http://www.ni.com/teststand/.

Hope this helps – good luck with your app!

[mfitzsimons]

Thanks for the link.  Very usefull having all of the information in one place.

Matt