LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit

LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit is a LabVIEW add-on that extends the features of VI Analyzer with common tests, APIs, Project Explorer integration, and a test creator utility.

The LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit helps you perform static code analysis to improve the quality and readability of your LabVIEW code. The LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit is a software add-on for LabVIEW that helps you improve graphical code developed in LabVIEW. With this toolkit, you can configure more than 90 included tests for automated code review and static code analysis of all VIs in an application, or you can create your own using the test creation wizard. The LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit provides debugging tools that help you avoid improper coding techniques that could impact an application’s performance, functionality, or maintainability. In addition, you can enforce effective programming practices and coding styles within teams of developers to ensure code readability and functionality.

Tests

LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit includes a wide range of tests in various categories:

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  • Block Diagram
    • Performance
      • Arrays and Strings in Loops
      • Coercion Dots
      • Enabled Debugging
      • In Place Element Structure Usage (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2013 and later)
      • Inlinable VIs (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Parallel For Loop Debugging (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Parallelizable Loops (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Prepend Scalar With Build Array (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Redundant Boolean Operations (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Value Property Usage (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Wait in While Loop
      • Wired Terminals in Subdiagrams
    • Style
      • Array Constant Style (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Backwards Wires
      • Case Structure Default Frame (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Code Simplification (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2013 and later)
      • Control Terminal Label Visible
      • Control Terminal Wiring
      • Diagram Disable Structures (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Mixed Terminal Styles (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2012 and later)
      • Node Density (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2009..2017)
      • Poor Names of Enum Items (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Sequence Structure Usage
      • String Constant Style
      • Tunnel Position (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Unused Code
      • Wire Bends
      • Wire Crossings
      • Wires Under Objects
    • Warnings
      • Adding Array Size Elements
      • Array Sum and Product Overflow (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2013 and later)
      • Breakpoint Detection
      • Bundling Duplicate Names
      • Case Structure with String Range (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Error Cluster Wired
      • Find Deprecated Items (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2020 and later)
      • For Loop Error Handling (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2018 and later)
      • For Loop Iteration Count
      • For Loop Reference Handling (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2020 and later)
      • Globals and Locals
      • Hidden Objects in Structures
      • Hidden Tunnels
      • Indexer Datatype
      • Pattern Label
      • Reentrant VI Issues
      • Type Casting References (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Typedef Cluster Constants (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2009..2017)
      • Unwired I32 Error (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
  • Complexity Metrics
    • Cyclomatic Complexity
    • Depth of Nesting of Structures
    • Fan In
    • Fan Out
    • Modularity Index
  • Documentation
    • Developer
      • Approved Bookmark Tags (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019 and later)
      • Comment Usage
      • Label Call Library Nodes
      • Revision History
    • User
      • Spell Check
      • VI Documentation
  • Front Panel
    • SubVI
      • Array Default Values
      • Cluster Sized to Fit
      • Control Alignment
    • User Interface
      • Alignment Grid Setting (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2020 and later)
      • Clipped Text
      • Dialog Controls
      • Duplicate Control Labels
      • Empty List Items
      • Font Usage
      • Overlapping Controls
      • Panel Size and Position
      • Scalar Chart Updates (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Synchronous Display (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Transparent Labels
  • General
    • File Properties
      • SubVI and TypeDef Locations
      • VI Extension
      • VI Name
      • VI Saved Version
      • VI Size
    • Icon and Connector Pane
      • Connected Pane Terminals (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2009..2017)
      • Connector Pane Alignment
      • Connector Pane Pattern
      • Default Icon
      • Error Style
      • Full Connector Pane (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010 and later)
      • Icon Size and Border
      • Polymorphic Terminals
      • Terminal Connection Type
      • Terminal Positions
    • VI Properties
      • Auto Error Handling Enabled (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2018 and later)
      • Broken VI
      • Built Application Compatibility
      • Control VI Type (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2018 and later)
      • Driver Usage
      • Platform Portability
      • Removed Diagram
      • Separate Compiled Code Setting (LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2020 and later)
      • Toolkit Usage
      • VI Lock State
  • VI Metrics
    • Connector Inputs and Outputs
    • Controls and Indicators
    • Diagram Count
    • Diagram Size
    • Node Count
    • Property Reads and Writes
    • Shared Library Calls
    • Structure Count
    • Wire Sources

  
  

Unless otherwise stated, these tests are available in LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2009 and later.

API

LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit installs several functions to automate the discovery and execution of tests. These functions are available from the VI Analyzer palette.

Icon	Name
	VIAn Add Item
	VIAn Destroy Task
	VIAn Easy Analyze
	VIAn Easy Report
	VIAn Exclude Tests from VI
	VIAn Get Analysis Status
	VIAn Get Items
	VIAn Get Tests
	VIAn Modify Test Config Value
	VIAn Modify Test Settings
	VIAn New Task
	VIAn Remove Item
	VIAn Run
	VIAn Save Configuration File
	VIAn Select Tests

Deprecated

Icon	Name
	VIAn Add Password

History

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2024 Q1:
  • Files moved to the version-independent LVAddons directory for LabVIEW 2024 Q1 and later

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2023 Q1:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2023 Q1

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2022 Q3:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2022 Q3

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2021:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2021

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2020:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2020
  • Added Find Deprecated Items
  • Added For Loop Reference Handling
  • Added Alignment Grid Setting
  • Added Separate Compiled Code Setting

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2019:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2019
  • Added Parallel For Loop Debugging
  • Added Array Constant Style
  • Added Case Structure Default Frame
  • Added Diagram Disable Structures
  • Added Poor Names of Enum Items
  • Added Case Structure with String Range
  • Added Unwired I32 Error
  • Added Approved Bookmark Tags

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2018:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2018
  • Added For Loop Error Handling
  • Added Auto Error Handling Enabled
  • Added Control VI Type
  • Removed Node Density
  • Removed Typedef Cluster Constants
  • Removed Connected Pane Terminals
  • Removed VIAn Add Password

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2017 SP1:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2017 SP1

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2017:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2017

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2016:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2016

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2015:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2015

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2014:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2014

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2013:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2013
  • Added In Place Element Structure Usage
  • Added Code Simplification
  • Added Array Sum and Product Overflow

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2012:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2012
  • Added Mixed Terminal Styles

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2011:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2011

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2010:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2010
  • Added Inlinable VIs
  • Added Parallelizable Loops
  • Added Prepend Scalar With Build Array
  • Added Redundant Boolean Operations
  • Added Value Property Usage
  • Added Tunnel Position
  • Added Type Casting References
  • Added Scalar Chart Updates
  • Added Synchronous Display
  • Added Full Connector Pane

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 2009:
  • Requires LabVIEW 2009
  • First release

See also

• VI Analyzer

External links

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit Release Notes