Update Step Setting in TestStand Sequence File in Bulk Without Involving Programming

It is a common practice to reuse a single TestStand sequence file on another product after slight modification to its contents. In this article, we will demonstrate to you how one can modify the contents of a sequence file quickly without involving any programming, specifically, changing the message to be shown by Message Popup step.

1. Create a new TestStand sequence file with 20 Message Popup steps with Hello as Message Expression for demonstration purposes.
   
2. Go to Edit >> Sequence File Properties
   
3. Change File Format to XML and click OK.
    
4. Save the sequence file at your preferred location.
5. Open the sequence file using any preferred text editor.
6. Using the Replace feature of the text editor to replace Hello to HelloWorld.
   • The image below shows that Notepad++ is used to perform this step:
      
7. Save it.
8. Open the sequence file again in TestStand and observe the changes.

In TestStand, you will see the value for Message Expression is now updated to HelloWorld.

Once you have familiarised yourself with the XML structure, you may now modify other settings too, such as changing font size, step label, creating and modifying value of a local variables and more.