There is definitely no need (or time) to make something from scratch. Not an
entire language anyway.
TestStand would fit all your needs. In three months, you should be able to
make interface VI's (or c/c++ dll's) for all your hardware, and by doing
this you create a flexible, configurable test system. A test system that any
technician can program. It will still be a challenge though. Getting to know
TS takes a few weeks (variable sharing between VI's, dynamic VI's and stuff
like that is a bit tricky). Then you need to make all the interface code in
such a way that it's easy to use in TS. (You need to do this anyway,
regardless which language you use/create.).
You need to make choices. You can make very low level VI's, and interface
with then from TS. Or, you can make more advanced VI's that get test
parameters from TS. You need to make all those choices, and is usually quite
a challenge.
If you'd use a scripting language, you have more work to make an interface.
And you also have a lot more flexibility, which is bad in this case. More
flexibility is more choices to make. A wrong choice in the beginning, might
turn up as a limitation in the end... You'd have to spend much more time to
design the system to prevent this, and that is hard if you're not an expert.
TS is the safest bet.
Regards,
Wiebe.
