Browse Month: April 2015

Fixing a Simple Bug with Test Driven Development

So it was the CLA Summit last week that gave me more opportunity to bang on about software testing either further and was great to discuss it with various people and see the themes coming out of it.

My common theme was that I really like the interactive nature of the Unit Test Framework, I think it plays to LabVIEW’s strengths and allows for a nice workflow (for basic tests, using test vectors is far more long winded than it needs to be!).

Another positive I took was from Steve Watts’ talk on debugging and immediacy. He talked about the advantages of ‘runnable code’, that is having logic contained in subVIs that can run independently which aids the debugging process.

So as I worked this week I came across a bug which, the process of fixing, highlighted this well. I took a screencast of the process to highlight some of the benefits that I have found and I think highlights one of the most commonly cited benefits of testing, better code structure. (Go easy, I’m not as natural on camera!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcO1sxbDFY

Chrome Wont Load LabVIEW Real Time Web Configuration Pages

I spent a week at the CLA summit last week (more to follow) and got a nasty shock on my return.

On attempting to login to configure a compactRIO system I get faced with a request to install silverlight:

Install Silverlight

 

As I have used this every day for a long time, I somehow don’t believe this.

It turns out that Google have removed support for some cryptic NPAPI that many plugins require to run, including Silverlight.

This finally explains why I have been seeing more security warnings about running silverlight pages, it appears this has been coming for some time, in fact over a year! Wish someone had told me.

Fear not, there is a workaround, but it will only work until September.

  1. Navigate to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi in the browser
  2. Click Enable under Enable NPAPIenable_npapi
  3. A box will appear at the bottom of the screen with a Relaunch Now button. Press this to relaunch chome ensuring you back up any work in the browser first
  4. And back to work fixing compactRIOs.

And in September…

I guess if there is no change from the NI side it’s a move to Firefox or IE!

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