Teststand/Labview/CVI/Switch Exec etc.. Licence selection

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Recently I have been involved in 2 Projects which deployed the test solution to PCs with disconnected deploy licenses

On both projects it was very labour intensive, there were some strange failures that were seen , related to the different licences and which were only highlighted when running with LVRTE and Teststand base deployment license. On each occasion it felt that even though the development machine had proven the solution it still required significant effort to prove and integrate the deployment image 

My suggestion is to allow the developer to configure their development PC NI licence manager to replicate the PC that will run the deployment.

The Development machine would obviously need to have the development suite licences, all child licences related to the development licence would be available in the NI Licence manager . The developer would then have the option, to configure the licence manager to use the desired licenses. Ie TestStand Base deployment & switch executive deployment.

With a TestStand solution on a development machine the deployed image could then be tested before its deployed to its destination PC

ie.

1.The adaptor settings can be changed for the code modules to Run Time

2.The TestStand Search directories can be configured to use the deployment target image

3.And the licencing could be changed to replicate the deployment PC 

Realise that points 1 & 2 above should iron out most of the issues with the deployment licence and its mainly on new deploys that the integration is painful, but having the option to select the licence to test on the development PC will help a lot to speed up the integration.