Object-Oriented Test and Measurement Software Development in C++

KEY TOPICS:As test and measurement applications grow, it becomes more critical to apply advanced, industry-standard techniques such as object-oriented development to the development process. This book walks through the design of an object-oriented test and measurement system, step by step, explains fundamental object concepts such as inheritance, and shows how they can be applied to test and measurement systems. There is specific coverage of how object-oriented techniques can be used for error handling.

AUDIENCE:This book is ideal for test development engineers, test engineers, and test and measurement engineers who wish to learn object-oriented techniques that can simplify their applications.

• Provides "compare and contrast" examples showing how test and measurement applications are designed with and without object-oriented techniques.
  
• Presents new data types that may be especially useful for test and measurement applications.
  
• Includes a CD-ROM with portable C++ code.
  

Table of contents

1. PROGRAMMING TEST SYSTEMS.

1. Test Systems.

2. Components of a Test System.

3. Software for Test Systems.

4. Programming a Test System.

2. OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DESIGN.

5. Object Oriented Programming.

6. Object Oriented Programming in C++.

7. Object Oriented Design.

3. OBJECT ORIENTED TEST & MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS.

8. High level OO Design of a T&M System.

9. Building and Instrument I/O Class.

10. Instrument Classes.

11. Measurement and Test Classes.

12. Building an Object Oriented T&M System.

4. ADVANCED TOPICS.

13. Creating OO Data Types.

14. Error Handling.

15. Advanced Instrument Classes.

APPENDICES.

A. OO-SCPI and Instrument Standards.

B. Contents of Disk.

C. Solutions to Exercises.

D. Other Books of Interest.

G. Glossary of Terms.