Abstract: A system and method for programmatically analyzing a graphical program. A graphical program may be stored in a memory and may be programmatically traversed to determine one or more objects in the graphical program. The graphical program may be programmatically analyzed to determine information regarding the graphical program, based on properties of the one or more objects determined when traversing the graphical program. For example, factors that affect performance of the graphical program may be determined based on properties of one or more objects found when traversing the graphical program. As another example, problems or errors in the graphical program may be determined based on properties of one or more objects found when traversing the graphical program.

Abstract: A system and method for enabling programmatic analysis of a graphical program, where the programmatic analysis includes user-defined tests. A software program referred to herein as a graphical program analyzer may be operable to programmatically analyze a graphical program by programmatically performing various tests on the graphical program. Some of the tests may be built in to the graphical program analyzer. The graphical program analyzer may also allow a user to add various user-defined tests. Adding user-defined tests to the graphical program analyzer may allow the functionality of the graphical program analyzer to be extended. When programmatically analyzing a graphical program, the graphical program analyzer may be operable to perform the user-defined tests in addition to the built-in tests.

Abstract: A system and method for visually indicating one or more problems in a graphical program. The graphical program may be programmatically analyzed to discover a problem (or potential problem) in the graphical program. The problem found during the programmatic analysis of the graphical program may then be visually indicated on a display device. Visually indicating the problem may comprise visually indicating one or more objects in the graphical program to which the problem corresponds. Visually indicating the graphical program object(s) may comprise displaying information or altering the appearance of the object(s) in order to call the user's attention to the object(s).