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What Is TestStand?
TestStand is a test executive software that accelerates system development and deployment for engineers in validation and production.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Validation & Production
Test Automation
TestStand automates, accelerates, and standardizes the overall test process across all of your testers with native functionality for:
-Calling and executing tests written in LabVIEW, Python, C/C++, or .NET
-Complex tasks, such as parallel testing, sweeping, looping, and synchronization
-Creating custom operator interfaces and robust tools for deployment and debugging
-Unit tracking, creating automated reports, and storing results to local or network databases
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WHY TESTSTAND
What Can I Do
With TestStand?
Develop test and deploy to your systems. Standardize and streamline your workflows. Learn how TestStand empowers test engineers to outpace time-to-market restrictions through efficiency:
How Do I…
Develop Automated Production Test Systems
Develop Automated Validation Test Systems
Deploy and Debug Test Systems
Buying TestStand
TestStand Development System is available for purchase as a single subscription or as part of the Test Workflow Pro bundle. For scaling and deploying test to multiple test systems, NI offers perpetual licenses for the Deployment Engine and Debug Deployment Environment.
TestStand Development System
Recommended for engineers developing test sequences for multiple test systems.
-Develop and debug test sequences using an interactive development environment. 
-Call test code written in common programming languages.
-Create deployable test system installers.
Test Workflow Pro
Recommended for developers that require test sequencing along with tools for hardware automation and data analysis.
Includes TestStand Development System, plus:
-LabVIEW for acquiring data from NI and third-party hardware as well as communicating using industry protocols.
-DIAdem for searching for, viewing, and analyzing data and creating automated reports.
-And more NI software!
TestStand Saves Time
Leveraging an off-the-shelf test executive lowers the total cost of test and improves developer efficiencies. Users save time in development, can reduce maintenance across testers, and increase throughput with native parallel test logic.
75%
Development time saved
67%
Reduction in maintenance
97%
Increase in productivity with parallel testing
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