How to terminate the Sequence Test?

Question

Hi,
Our production personnel complain that they can not terminate the test sequence when they spot some failures and wish to stop the test.  The only way I know how to do it is to put a stop on a step and then when TS does not run I can terminate the test.
What is your recommendation for implementing a better way for termination?
Thanks
Rafi

Answer 1

Hi Rafi,
Here is some example code for using the execution termination monitor.  You will want to place this in your code periodically to look for possible termination requests.  This was an example written to demonstrate how you would exit out of an infinite loop with the termination monitor.
CAObjHandle exec = 0 ;
    int error = 0;
    int i = 0;
    VBOOL term;   
    CAObjHandle MON = 0;
    //getting the execution object from the sequence context which was passed from TestStand
 TS_SeqContextGetExecution (seqContextCVI, NULL, &exec);
 //initializing the termination monitor and setting up  MON to be the monitor data
 TS_ExecutionInitTerminationMonitor (exec, NULL, &MON);
    //creating an infinite loop that will end if the termination monitor status is set to TRUE
    do
 TS_ExecutionGetTerminationMonitorStatus (exec, NULL, MON,
            CA_DEFAULT_VAL, &term);
    while( term == VFALSE);
Error: 
    // FREE RESOURCES
    // if (lastUserName != NULL)
    //     CA_FreeMemory(lastUserName);
 CA_DiscardObjHandle(exec);
 CA_DiscardObjHandle(MON);
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Caroline Tipton
Data Management Product Manager
National Instruments