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Add immediate execution window.

The idea here is to have a widow that you can execute expressions while at a breakpoint or paused. I would also like to be able to execute the expression while not running the sequence. Many times I am not sure how will be returned by an API expression and it would be nice just to execute it. I know that not all expressions can be executed outside running the sequence, but many can. This would be a nice feature so you can test expressions without running the whole sequence.

TESTSTAND is capable of interfacing so many devices & instrument to a UUT.

Incase of ATE(Automatic test equipment), where lot of resources are made available to test the UUT, not all the resources or instruments will be used through out the test for a particular UNIT. Hence there should be facility to select the resources required for particular test, which will be then only initialized & used.

For example a simple power device requires only POWER SUPPLY, LOAD & DMM. Where as a data acquisition system requires POWER SUPPLY, DIO & AIO cards & so on.

Thus one should only select the resources required for test & hence no need to have init function separately for each sequence. This may sound a bit complicated but It really helps for LARGE ATEs, where optimization is KEY. Same thing can be implemented for TERMINATING resources once test is done.