How to write the last step into the temporary XML file?

Question

Hi all,
I'm running a sequence & writing the results of each step to a report file.
When reviewing the report On-The-Fly I see azll the steps (including the last one), but in the temporary report file (ends with _00001.xml) has all the steps except the last one.
anyone has an idea how can I "force" TestStand to write all the buffer to the file?
thanks,
Ido

Answer 1

IdoZe,
I was able to replicate your behavior you were seeing and spoke with our R&D team on this. On-the-fly reporting is not guaranteed to write every step, this would cause way too much writing to disk and would cause performance problems because of this. It instead writes according to when the DLL is set to write based on timers and other pieces of dll code.
With what you are trying to do, it seems you are approaching it incorrectly. First of all, you are accessing and editing a temporary report, which is not recommended. Second, there are many better ways to do this instead of just adding a step to your main or even clean-up of your sequence. You could A) Override the PostUUT or PostUUTLoop callbacks or B) create a top level sequence that makes a sequence call to your sequence you want the report for. In the properties you would spawn a new execution for that sequence after the sequence call, you could wait for the sequence to complete and then read the XML in another step.
You should always use the final report for this though, because editing the temporary report is a bad idea.
Another idea is to modify the report generation to write the report correctly the first time you read it. It all depends on exactly what you are trying to do, but I would strongly suggest this last option if possible as it does not involve editing the report after it is written, which defeats the report generation's purpose.
Brandon Vasquez | Software Engineer | Integration Services | National Instruments