PUSHING THE LIMITS OF LABVIEW

Five Clever Debugging Techniques for Every LabVIEW Developer!Presented at NIWeek 2011!Omar Mussa!Sr. Engineer!

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Avoidance!

Architecture!

Testing!

Issue Tracking!

Debugging is not a value added task!

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Hidden Costs of Poor Quality!

Schedule Delays!

Time & Materials!

Customer Perception!

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JKI Stock Tracker App!

Quick Overview!

Subtle Bugs!

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#1 - Probes Revisited!

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#2 - Suspend When Called!

Overlooked  

Easy  to  use  

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#3 - Debug Panels!

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#4 - Unit Testing!

Iden2fy  +  fix  bugs  

Enable  good  design  

Long  term  solu2on  

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Last resort!Software Engineering with

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#5 - Tracing Execution!

History Probe Trace

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Questions!

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