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    This document discusses debugging and troubleshooting techniques in LabVIEW. It covers correcting broken VIs, debugging techniques like using breakpoints and retaining wire values, and error handling. For error handling, it explains the difference between automatic and manual error handling, using error clusters, and the Merge Errors function. Activities and exercises are included to practice these skills.

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    Lesson 3

    Troubleshooting and Debugging VIs


    Fix a broken VI, debug incorrect results and behavior of a
    running VI, and display errors generated by functions while
    a VI is running.
    A. Correcting Broken VIs
    B. Debugging Techniques
    C. Error Handling

    1
    LESSON 3 Debugging and Troubleshooting

    A. Correcting Broken VIs


    Recognize an unexecutable VI and restate common
    problems.

    2
    A. Correcting Broken VIs

    Common Causes of Broken VIs

    3
    A. Correcting Broken VIs

    Identify Problems and Fix Broken VIs

    4
    LESSON 3 Debugging and Troubleshooting

    B. Debugging Techniques
    Identify the LabVIEW tools for debugging and select the tool
    appropriate to the situation.

    • Debugging Tools Review


    • Breakpoints
    • Undefined or Unexpected Data

    5
    B. Debugging Techniques

    Debugging Tips

    Refer to the LabVIEW Core 1 Participant Guide for the Debugging Techniques job aid.
    6
    LESSON 3 Troubleshooting and Debugging

    Activity 3-1
    Review Debugging Tools

    Select the LabVIEW debugging tool you would use in different scenarios.

    7
    B. Debugging Techniques

    Breakpoints

    8
    B. Debugging Techniques

    Retain Wire Values


    • Allows you to probe wire values after a VI runs

    9
    B. Debugging Techniques

    Undefined or Unexpected Data

    10
    LESSON 3 Troubleshooting and Debugging

    Exercise 3-1
    Debugging

    Use debugging tools and troubleshooting techniques to fix a broken VI that


    returns unexpected data.

    11
    LESSON 3 Troubleshooting and Debugging

    Exercise 3-1
    Debugging

    • If you have a VI with a broken Run arrow, what should you do first?
    • After you fixed your broken Run arrow, your VI results show unexpected data.
    What can you do next?

    12
    LESSON 3 Debugging and Troubleshooting

    C. Error Handling
    Describe the difference between automatic and manual error
    handling.

    • Error Handling Review • Error Clusters


    • Automatic vs. Manual Error • Errors and Warnings
    Handling
    • Merge Errors Function

    13
    C. Error Handling

    Error Handling Review


    Error Handling – Anticipation, detection and resolution of
    warnings and errors

    Automatic Error Handling – At run time, LabVIEW suspends


    execution, highlights node, and displays Error dialog box

    Manual Error Handling – You control when dialog boxes


    appear, propagate errors with error clusters, terminate error
    chain with Simple Error Handler VI

    14
    LESSON 3 Troubleshooting and Debugging

    Demonstration
    Automatic vs. Manual Error Handling

    Demonstrate the difference between automatic and manual error


    handling.

    15
    C. Error Handling

    Disable Automatic Error Handling

    16
    C. Error Handling

    Error Clusters

    17
    C. Error Handling

    Errors and Warnings


    Error Warning

    • Status = TRUE (8) • Status = FALSE (4)


    • Code = Non-zero • Code = Non-zero

    18
    C. Error Handling

    Merge Errors

    19
    C. Error Handling

    Errors and Warnings Recommendations

    20
    LESSON 3 Troubleshooting and Debugging

    Activity 3-2
    Lesson Review

    Refer to the participant guide to answer questions about what you have learned
    in this lesson and then discuss the answers as a group.

    21
    Lesson Review

    1. Which of the following will result in a


    broken run arrow?
    a. A subVI is broken
    b. The diagram includes a divide by zero
    c. A required subVI input is unwired
    d. A Boolean terminal is wired to a numeric indicator

    22
    Lesson Review

    1. Which of the following will result in a


    broken run arrow?
    a. A subVI is broken
    b. The diagram includes a divide by zero
    c. A required subVI input is unwired
    d. A Boolean terminal is wired to a numeric indicator

    23
    Lesson Review

    2. Which of the following are the


    components and data types of the error
    cluster?
    a. Status: Boolean
    b. Error: String
    c. Code: 32-bit integer
    d. Source: String

    24
    Lesson Review

    2. Which of the following are the


    components and data types of the error
    cluster?
    a. Status: Boolean
    b. Error: String
    c. Code: 32-bit integer
    d. Source: String

    25
    Lesson Review

    3. All errors have negative error codes and


    all warnings have positive error codes.

    a. True
    b. False

    26
    Lesson Review

    3. All errors have negative error codes and


    all warnings have positive error codes.

    a. True
    b. False

    27
    Lesson Review

    4. Merge Errors function concatenates error


    information from multiple sources.

    a. True
    b. False

    28
    Lesson Review

    4. Merge Errors function concatenates error


    information from multiple sources.

    a. True
    b. False

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