for a tester who never know teststand beofre, how to learn the software?

[ashlee]

Is there any useful document or ppt?

If anyone have such information, please help.

Thank you so much

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

The obvious one would be to get on an NI proved training course for TestStand.

There is a tutorial as part of the teststand installation, have a look in the documentation folder and the tutorial folder.

There are some "Using TestStand with ..." documents as well.

There are examples in the TestStand examples folder ... check out the Computer Motherboard Test Sequence example in \Examples\Demos\ and pick your favourite language.

Hope this gets your started

Regards

Ray Farmer

[Callie]

The Guide to TestStand Documentation topic in the NI TestStand Help outlines useful documents for new users:

If you are a new user, National Instruments recommends completing the following tasks to get started with TestStand:

• Review the NI TestStand System and Architecture Overview Card to familiarize yourself with the various system components, as well as the flow and structure of sequences, process models, and executions.
• Read the NI TestStand Release Notes to familiarize yourself with the new features, upgrade information, behavior changes, and documentation resources.
• Read Chapter 1, Introduction to TestStand, in the Using TestStand manual to familiarize yourself with TestStand concepts and features.
• Complete the tutorials in the Using TestStand manual.
• Read Chapter 1, TestStand Architecture, in the NI TestStand Reference Manual, and familiarize yourself with the other chapters in that manual.
• Refer to the Using LabVIEW with TestStand manual and to the Using LabWindows/CVI with TestStand manual to learn how to use TestStand with National Instruments application development environments (ADEs).

Select Start>>All Programs»National Instruments>>TestStand x.x>>Documentation>>NI TestStand Help or select Help>>NI TestStand Help in the TestStand Sequence Editor to access the NI TestStand Help.

PDFs of the TestStand manuals, overview card, and reference posters are located in the <TestStand>\Doc\Manuals directory.

[dowNow]

When I learned TestStand 1.0 on my own it took me a LONG time and I made several significant architectural mistakes that cost hundreds of labor hours. I know that others went down the same path too. Imho TestStand is such a "powerful" product that you must take the one week training. I think you can buy the training manuals and do it on your own, but of course you would have to honestly put in the effort to cover the material.

Having said that there is clearly more material around about "how to use" TestStand, and TestStand itself is obvously much better than 1.0, but I still strongly recommend the training. 

[Dennis_Knutson]

I learned TestStand 1.0 the same way and think that a training course would be of great benefit. It's just too bad that there aren't that many available. We've got several new users that would go if something was local.

[Gist]

Hello ashlee,

If you are indeed interested in a TestStand customer education course, all I need is your permission to contact the web administrators in order to get information that would allow us to send you a quote and further information about these classes.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Matt,

I've already been in contact with Hank B. about an onsite class and seeing if there is enough interest from a couple of different departments. I was just a bit surprised by how few options there were for formal TestStand training.

[ashlee]

yes. I do need a useful training as soon as possbile.

But I am in China actually, how could I get such training?

[hemudu]

Hi ashlee, I'm Applications Engineer of NI China.
You mentioned you are now in China, so if you indeed interested in TestStand Course, you can contact us in following ways:
Email: china.training@ni.com
Tel: (86)021-50509800-2359/2120

Any question, pls let us known.

hemudu
Applications Engineer of NI China

[ashlee]

hi hemudu,

Thank you so much in advance. If I have any problem, I will connect you. By the way, I am not only a new guy using TS, but also a new guy using automation testin. So please do not mind, if I ask any simply question. : )