Reducing the cost and effort of computer-aided test program development

Hewlett-Packard´s marketing research over the past several years reveals that the chief concern of computer-aided test (CAT) managers is to reduce the cost and effort of program development. CAT software tools and techniques for rapidly developing high-performance test programs at lower costs and with less effort are discussed. Functional test manager (FTM) and interactive test generator (ITG) software packages work together to provide a very easy functional test software solution. FTM provides a wide range of capability designed to help automate functional test applications. ITG is a very easy-to-use tool for generating instrument control and measurement procedure software. It makes it possible to generate the instrument control portion of functional test programs without having to search through manuals looking for instrument control mnemonics