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The TestStand Trace utility allows you to keep a record of TestStand steps that execute on a system, similar to NI I/O trace for NI driver calls. It provides information about the steps to help troubleshoot TestStand errors or crashes.
When unexpected errors or crashes occur on a Test System, it is important to determine which step in the test sequence is causing the problem, and why the problem occurred. The TestStand trace tool provides a log of all steps that have executed on the system and records important information about each step, including:
The TestStand trace utility displays this information in a tree, but you can also export the log to a delimited file which you can import into excel. You can optionally configure the utility to automatically update the log after each step (useful when debugging TestStand crashes, since the utility executes within the TestStand process).
TestStand 2012 or Compatible
Installing the Utility as a Tool Menu Item
Using the Utility
The TestStand Trace Utility does not support .NET modules at this time. .NET steps will be logged, but will not contain module information.
Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.
In the description above, It says that with a version 4.0 or later of TestStand it should work. However, I have the TestStand 4.5.1.134 and I got an error (See attached image).
Any idea?
Thanks in advance and kind regards
the code has been updated, please let me know if you are still encountering problems. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Hi Al,
I'm running into issues when I use the tool with Parallel process model and/or steps dealing with the TS API.
I'm using TS2012.
Hi all,
Is this Trace Utility compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of TestStand?
Thanks,
Roberto
Hi Al,
I tried to use this utility with TS 64-bit but I got an error saying that the DLL used is 32-bit so it is not compatible with TS 64-bit:
Do you have a 64-bit version of TS-Trace.dll?
Thank you.