Happy belated holidays and welcome to the New Year!

Starting off this New Year I want to highlight two new courses being taught here at Viewpoint for the first time, LabVIEW Advanced I: Architectures and LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming System Design.  I am very excited to see these two courses being taught here in Rochester and hope you will join me in class during the week of February 16th.  Fear not, I will not be teaching these courses.  I hope to be attending these courses which are being taught by NI. 

Inside the January 2009 Issue:

• Test Driven Development in LabVIEW Part 2
• Sometimes You Need a Little Help

Lastly, congratulations goes out to Lewis Smith our newest Certified LabVIEW Developer! 

Hope to see you in class!

Benjamin Hysell Senior Editor
bhysell@viewpointusa.com

If it's worth building, it's worth testing. If it's not worth testing, why are you wasting your time working on it?
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We continue our series on doing test driven development in LabVIEW. In Part 1 - Motivations, we reviewed what motivates people to practice test driven development and the basic terms and practices used. In Part 2 we will get down to business and explore a framework used to perform test driven development in LabVIEW using tools that are available today and work with any modern version of LabVIEW.

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