static code analysis

[bfarley]

Are there any staic code analysis tools for LV?

Bill F

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you asking about something similar to lint in c/c++? If so, then I'm not aware of anything. The best you can do is show warnings when you select Window>Show Error List but those warnings aren't much and don't cover a lot of the important stuff (like references not closed, global/local variable usage, etc.). Sounds like a nice feature to add the the wishlist.

[Darren]

Hi Bill,

There was a presentation at NI Week on "NI LabVIEW Development Style Guidelines", and at the end of the presentation, a demo was given of the VI Analyzer, an unreleased style and performance analysis toolkit for LabVIEW by National Instruments. The presenter indicated that it was in Alpha at the time of the presentation (mid-August).

-D

[craige]

I know this is an old post but it might be nice to put some updated information here:

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/209042 

At my office we use the VI analyzer to establish VI documentation and style standards. We then pass our resulting code through the analyzer before we consider the code ready to release. (Of course nothing can take the place of good ole' peer code reviews)

Craig