batch cleanup

[bobw]

I am having some trouble trying to synchronize my batch process. I would like

to be able to terminate particular slots upon test failures and have the threads wait

at the beginning of the  Mainsequence cleanup for the rest of the testing to complete.

I've tried batch sychronization, rendezvous, etc. The problem is that

the terminated threads will block until the remaining threads hit any other

type of synchronization step. Then the cleanup will continue which cause some shared

resources to be shut down.

Is this the expected behavior? Any ideas of how to do this? Thanks.

Bob

[Antonio Lie]

Bob,

It seems that you want to run your cleanup steps after all the threads are done.
You can accomplish that by using the batch synchronization step.
Basically you have to wrap your cleanup section in a batch synchronization section and use the Parallel section type.
This will cause that all the threads enter the section simultaneously.
If you want the cleanup section to be executed only by one thread you can also use a batch synchronization step but you would have to set the section type to 'One Thread at a time".
Take a look to the attached example. (TestStand 3.0 sequence file)
If you have any question let me know.

Antonio Lie.