ScanWorks® documentation
brings programmers up to speed quickly
Relying on documentation to learn how to use a technical
software product is not recommended for the faint
of heart. Much to his chagrin, that's exactly what
Jeff Thomson, a contractor to a large aerospace company,
faced. Thomson's expertise is in the graphical test
executives from National Instruments, LabVIEW and
TestStand. His assignment was to automate the application
of ScanWorks boundary-scan tests under these NI test
executives.
“I wasn't familiar with ScanWorks at all before
I started on this work,” Thomson explained.
“Everyone else at the company I was working
for had been trained on ScanWorks, but I had no training
at all and I was being asked to integrate these tests
under LabVIEW and TestStand. I had to ramp myself
up on ScanWorks very quickly.”
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