Roadmap

Roadmap

4.0 Next Release

Goals and Objectives

This next release has the following high-level goals:

• Make it is easy for people to contribute to the project
• Release the key contributions to VI Tester people have made since the last release (various Pull Requests)
• Take inventory of needed improvements

Key Tasks

• Merge pull requests (PRs) with important fixes
• Review bug reports and feature requests to see if there are important fixes that should be made
• Upgrade source code to more modern LabVIEW (e.g. LV2017)

Various Ideas for Consideration

• Provide an Option for users to run VI Tester as a PPL
  • Faster load and edit time of user's projects
  • Allows building PPLs of tools that call or plug into VI Tester
• Documentation Improvements
• Build VI Tester using VIPM's package builder
• User Experience Review and Improvements
  • Test Runner UI review and improvements
  • LabVIEW Project Integration improvements

Old/Completed

• Run Test Programmatically -- high-level VIs for running tests programmatically (instead of from the VI Tester GUI)
• Right-click on tests in VI Tester GUI: Skip / Don't Skip, Run Test, Open Test VI-
• Performance optimizations
• Inheritance and overrides of custom Test Cases and Test Suites
• Export test report 'Detailed Status' to printer/disk/clipboard
• Improved project file integration