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Greetings, Last month, Viewpoint held some very successful seminars on Best Practices for Effective Test, in Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. We shared our experiences on designing, building, and supporting test systems, as well as our thoughts on future trends in the industry. We discussed ways that all test engineers can do better at selling the value of testing within their own companies by highlighting the connections of test with design, rework, warranty, support, and other groups within the company. The seminar surveys showed 100% of our attendees said the seminar met their expectations and I’m thrilled to say that 40% said it exceeded their expectations! If you are interested in having us present this seminar on-site at your company, let me know. For some time now, Rochester has been without a place to take NI’s certification exams through Pearson Vue. But now, Viewpoint Systems is a certified Pearson Vue center. Contact Pearson Vue for more detail. When you fill out the web form, use Viewpoint’s ZIP code of 14623. This month continues the series on 7 Challenges for Highly Effective Test Engineers with an exploration of Development Tools. Thanks for reading!
Jim Campbell |
 Development Tools
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We continue exploring the ‘7 Challenges for Highly Effective Test Engineers’ which are challenges that affect all test engineers developing new test systems or upgrading old ones. Last month, I leapt into our first in-depth exploration of Product Complexity. This month’s Challenge covers Development Tools. Next month will be Engineering Proficiency. Development tools add additional features every year. I’m not even talking about the changes driven by new hardware capabilities, such as multi-threading or FPGA. I’m speaking about the tools available to write an application. There are several development platforms to choose. Some are based on language choice (e.g., LabVIEW versus .NET versus C++). Some are based on capability (Matlab has many numerical analysis tools that LabVIEW does not). Like most of you, I focus on LabVIEW development options, although Viewpoint also uses .NET for many important applications too. But even in this corner of the development option space, LabVIEW offers many tools that you probably either don’t use or don’t know about, so please read on. |
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The Mobius Strip |
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August Ferdinand Mobius was a mathematician, astronomer and physicist and did extensive work in topology. The Mobius strip is a seemingly impossible thing where a strip of paper can somehow only have one side and one edge. Although Mobius is more often recognized, it is possible that this was actually first discovered by the lesser known Johann Benedict Listing. How to make your own Mobius strip.
Image Credit: Bellevue College |
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