Producing test software using labview ...

Hi friends,
For those of you who produce test software using LabVIEW,
TestStand, and C/C++, what are your biggest development problems? (By
the way, this can be hardware or software.)
George

Ravens Fan pretty much sums it up. I suppose you can add onto it being forced to deal in a specific platform due to customer requirements when you know it would be orders of magnitude easier with another platform. 
Out of curiousity, what is the purpose of the question?

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