TPS transportability in windows environment

This paper describes implementation of software components that allow Visual Basic Test Program Sets (TPSs) to be transportable in different windows environments. Streamlined implementation of these components with regard to backward compatibility ensures transparency to the TPS developer. There is an intermediate layer that exists on all TETS, a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Automated Test Equipment (ATE), called the Test Program Executive, which takes in inputs from the TPS and translates these into VISA layer calls that talk directly to the ATE instrumentation. The Test Executive in combination with other system components should allow for TPS Engineer transparency when designing TPSs for different windows systems. This method of making TPS transportable is preferred to using a 1641-like option.