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Software Engineering Technical Manual and Exercises

This document introduces a software engineering technical manual and exercises. It describes a blood pressure simulation application that processes recorded patient data to calculate the ratio of diastolic to systolic pressure. The user is instructed to open the application, select a data set when prompted, click to begin playback and view the results. Modifications are then made to the application's block diagram to potentially introduce bugs or break execution, such as changing timing parameters or deleting code.

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Software Engineering Technical Manual and Exercises

This document introduces a software engineering technical manual and exercises. It describes a blood pressure simulation application that processes recorded patient data to calculate the ratio of diastolic to systolic pressure. The user is instructed to open the application, select a data set when prompted, click to begin playback and view the results. Modifications are then made to the application's block diagram to potentially introduce bugs or break execution, such as changing timing parameters or deleting code.

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Software Engineering Technical Manual and Exercises

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Introduce the Application


a. Open Software Validation Demo.lvproj
b. Note that the project contains subVIs, test configuration, build specifications and various other
files. Open Main.vi.

c.

d.

This application simulates a device that computes blood pressure based upon input from a
pressure transducer. Instead of connecting hardware, this version will compute the ratio of
diastolic to systolic pressure based upon recorded patient data. In order to compute this value,
the application uses a very simple state machine that includes some basic acquisition (in this
case, from a file), simple filtering and signal processing. Click run.
When prompted, select a recorded dataset. (-BP DATA exp 3 123x76 62 BPM.tdms is
recommended, as the front panel defaults are calibrated for this patient).

Software Engineering Technical Manual and Exercises

e.
f.
g.

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Click Take Blood Pressure to begin playback of the recorded acquisition.


When ready to move on to the next step, de-select Timming Note: this control is intentionally
mis-spelled, as we will detect this in a later analysis step.
The final screen should display the results of the analysis, as shown below:

Make changes and compare them with the previous version.


a. Switch to the block diagram of the application.
a. Make several changes that could introduce bugs, unexpected behavior or even break execution.
Suggested modifications:
1. Change timing parameters (especially hard to find, but can cause significant problems)
2. Add cases to case structures
3. Change block diagram constants
4. Delete and/or move code
b. Save the modifications by selecting File > Save, thereby overwriting the VI on disk.
c. Examine the files on disk and note that Main.vi, which has been modified, has a red exclamation
mark over the icon of the file. This is how Subversion indicates that a file has modifications that
have not been added to the repository.
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