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A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW

ISBN: 0130093653
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 66

Authors: Jon Conway, Steve Watts

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• COVER
• TOC
• Copyright
• Virtual Instrumentation Series
• Preface
• The Test Engineer s Perspective
• Acknowledgments
• About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• 1.1 LabVIEW Sucks
• 1.2 Don t Buy This Book
• 1.3 The Soap Box
• 1.4 What This Book Is
• Chapter 2. LabVIEW Rocks
• 2.1 Why Does LabVIEW Rock?
• 2.2 What Advantages Does This Bring to the Developer?
• 2.3 How Can Good Design Leverage These Advantages?
• Chapter 3. Software Design Principles
• 3.1 Why is Software Complex?
• 3.2 Coupling and Cohesion
• 3.3 Information Hiding and Encapsulation
• 3.4 Examples of Coupling, Cohesion, and Information Hiding
• 3.5 Abstraction
• Chapter 4. LabVIEW Component Oriented Design (LCOD)
• 4.1 Components
• 4.2 Design
• Chapter 5. LCOD Implementation
• 5.1 Component Mechanisms
• 5.2 Message Sending
• 5.3 Persistent Local Storage
• 5.4 The Basic Structure of a Component
• Chapter 6. LCOD Complementary Techniques
• 6.1 State Machines
• 6.2 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Design and Prototyping (UI ControllerMessage Queue Pattern)
• 6.3 Abstraction in the Code, Detail Outside the Code
• 6.4 Error Handling
• 6.5 Pre- and Postconditions: Check What Comes In and What Goes Out
• 6.6 Reuse
• Chapter 7. Software Engineering Essentials
• Fairy Tales
• Horror Stories
• 7.1 The Usual Suspects
• 7.2 Requirements Document
• 7.3 QuoteProject Validation
• 7.4 Target Specification
• 7.5 Test Plan
• 7.6 Software Architecture Document
• 7.7 Software ConstructionBuild
• 7.8 TestCustomer Acceptance
• 7.9 Pictures Tell a Thousand Words
• 7.10 Checklists
• 7.11 Code Reviews
• 7.12 The Project Is Dead, Time for a Postmortem
• 7.13 Metrics
• Chapter 8. It s All About Style
• 8.1 Why Do We Need Standards Anyway?
• 8.2 Block Diagram
• 8.3 Front Panel
• Chapter 9. The Journey
• 9.1 Agreeing on the Destination (Requirements)
• 9.2 Planning Your Route (Design)
• 9.3 Build
• 9.4 Uh-oh We ve Been Given the Wrong Directions
• 9.5 Conclusions
• Glossary