MTS Series 793 Application - Manual (Page 145)

Procedure Has Been Run Against the MPT
MTS MultiPurpose TestWare® Working with MPT Specimens 145
Procedure Has Been Run Against the MPT Specimen
Suppose you load procedure “def.000” into memory, and run it unmodified on
MPT specimen Specimen 1. Then you load procedure “abc.000” from the File
menu, and select MPT specimen Specimen 1 from the MPT control panel. When
you do this, a dialog appears with the following selections:
Currently loaded
procedure
If you choose this selection and then run the test, MPT unlinks the MPT
specimen from procedure “def.000” and links it to procedure “abc.000”. The
MPT specimen now contains information (test data, log entries, and so on) from
different procedures (“abc.000” and “def.000”). Choosing this selection prevents
you from recovering status information stored in the specimen about the
execution of “def.000”.
Procedure assigned to
the MPT specimen
This is the default selection. If you choose it and then run the test, MPT replaces
the procedure currently in memory, “abc.000”, with the procedure linked to MPT
specimen, “def.000”. This is the saved version of the procedure. In this scenario,
this version is the same as the version that MPT automatically saved to the mpp
file when the procedure was last run.
Restore procedure
state to
While the procedure “def.000” was being run, MPT recorded the progress or
state of the execution of the test at intervals defined in the Recovery tab of the
Options Editor. MPT saves this information in the mps file, where it is
continually updated until the test is complete or in its Done state.
The Saved state selection in the Restore procedure state to box displays the
last saved state stored in the mps file. In this case the test ran to completion, so
the last saved state is Done. Done brings the procedure back to its done state, and
includes information such as counter values as they were when the test was
complete; in contrast, Reset brings the procedure back to its starting point, with
counters reset to zero.
MPT Load Specimen dialog for specimen Sample 1
D IALOG ITEM D EFAULT
Which procedure do you wish to select?
Currently loaded procedure: (abc.000)
Procedure assigned to the Specimen: (def.000)
No
Yes
Restore procedure state to:
Reset
Saved state: Done
No
Yes