NI’s New Year’s resolution to provide better support for third-party LabVIEW addons is already bearing fruit in some big ways inside JKI.
Very soon, you’ll be able to access VI Tester directly from the LabVIEW project toolbar.
By clicking on toolbar buttons you’ll be able to run all your project’s unit tests, as well as add new Test Cases and Test Suites without leaving the project window.
Here’s a short video showing a development version of the VI Tester’s LabVIEW Project Explorer toolbar in action:
All this is made possible by NI’s growing openness to providing LabVIEW developers with ways to plug into and extend LabVIEW. We are very excited about this trend and are learning more every day about new ways to plug into LabVIEW. Expect to see better integration with LabVIEW for more JKI tools, such as VIPM, in the near future.
Hazaah for NI for exposing the project environment hooks to JKI!
crelf: We’re very excited about it, too. Check back on Thursday for a follow-up article about NI’s efforts to open up LabVIEW to third parties.
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