To introduce the example tasks that are used in this tutorial to show the typical application area of AutomationDesk.
The following example tasks are used in this tutorial:
Example Task for Using the Basic Elements of AutomationDesk
This task shows you how to transfer your automation task into an AutomationDesk project and to transfer your test routine into an AutomationDesk sequence that represents its control flow. No platform access is required.
Example Task for Using Python in AutomationDesk.
This task shows you how to enhance AutomationDesk by using Python code that you implement yourself or that is provided by others. No real-time hardware is required.
Example Task for Implementing Tests
This task shows you how to implement your test routine in AutomationDesk depending on the test strategy: control-flow-based testing or the signal-based testing. To complete this task, access to a platform, i.e., to a real-time hardware or a VEOS, is required.
At the end of each lesson you can check the correctness of the executed steps. In the <DocumentsFolder>\Tutorial Demos folder you will find an associated demo project, which includes the result you should have achieved during the lesson. To compare your result with the demo project result, you can open the demo project in parallel. Since it has a different name, both projects can be used at the same time without causing conflicts.
A demo project can also be used as a starting point. If you want to work through only a certain lesson, you can open the corresponding demo project, save it under a different name (to keep the original demo project unchanged), and start working through the tutorial using the copy.
Before you can open a demo project, you must copy the demo projects to the Documents folder. To do so, the AutomationDesk Options dialog provides the Copy Demos command in the User Settings page.
Working through the entire tutorial will take you about 4 hours.