Publisher's Synopsis
Create more robust, more flexible LabVIEW applications - through software design principles!Writing LabVIEW software to perform a complex task is never easy - especially when those last-minute feature requests cause a complexity explosion in your system, forcing you to rework much of your code! Jon Conway and Steve Watts offer a better solution: LCOD-LabVIEW Component Oriented Design - which, for the first time, applies the theories and principles of software design to LabVIEW programming. The material is presented in a lighthearted, engaging manner that makes learning enjoyable, even if you're not a computer scientist.LCOD software engineering techniques make your software more robust and better able to handle complexity - by making it simpler! Even large, industrial-grade applications become manageable.Design to embrace flexibility first, making changes and bug fixes much less painfulPragmatic discussion of the authors' tried and tested techniques, written by - and for - working programmersCovers design principles; LCOD overview, implementation, and complementary techniques; engineering essentials; style issues; and moreComplete with practical advice on requirements gathering, pr;None of the methods discussed are complex, so users can benefit as soon as they are proficient with the syntax of LabVIEW.Go to the companion Web site located at http://author.phptr.com/watts/ for full source code and book updates.
