TestStand 2010 SP1 support Mac Operating System?

[Loka Prakash]

Hi,

The TestStand 2010 SP1 does not support Mac Operating System?

It only supports Windows Operating System

Please confirm

Thanks,

Prakash

[AllenP · Accepted solution]

No version of TestStand supports Mac OS.

[Skeptical]

Perhaps NI should look into this, especially since they have LabView for the Mac. In fact, LabView originated on the Mac.

[Norbert_B]

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@Skeptical wrote:

[...]. In fact, LabView originated on the Mac.

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That's true. But LabVIEW is no ActiveX server. And ActiveX is not supported on Mac.

Norbert

[Peter Cooper]

I have been noticing alot of activity recently in the Test Engineering world for Non Windows Platforms for scripting which TestStand is good at. A lot of the industry is moving towards open source scripting languages such as Ruby and Python in which LabView applications and other programming languages can be called from. This means test applications can no longer can be platform dependent since Python, Ruby are not OS dependent. Those type of test applications can be run on Mac- OS, Linux and Windows, etc. with very minmal code modifications between them. For one example see:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/RabbitMQ-AMQP-messaging-example-for-LabVIEW/td-p/1813350