It can provide one-button initiation of complete test sequences as well as provide access to individual test modules. It is able to provide instructions to manufacturing test technicians. After test, it can analyze data and generate reports, making results available over a network. A test executive can arise from practically any programming language that supports conditional branching. Yet test-software vendors disagree about what constitutes a TE, with some eschewing the term altogether.
TEs vary greatly in their areas of expertise.
These are generally very good for a narrowly focused application and often come packaged with preconfigured PC and instrumentation hardware. Some TEs mimic vice presidents of engineering who have a solid grasp of a test application's technical details. These VP TEs might bring with them their own virtual teams of technicians and administrative support. Other TEs imitate CEOs of global corporations, equally at home in, say, the computer and soft-drink industries. These CEO TEs can provide effective leadership to the software resources already at your disposal.