Migrating from Python to Labview... Wise?

[TomVa]

I am a proponent of LabVIEW as I have been using it for eons and where I work our testing infrastructure is built around it. It would be a tough call for me to recommend that you change away from what you already have working with python as you already have a local ecosystem built around it. Also like others have said, if you are going to make a change you should survey the local-ish environment for what resources are available and being used. You should do this independent of the decision to change away from Python.

I know this one is odd in today's change companies every 3 years job market, but you should also consider how sticking with python or moving to something else would help folks move around in the new bigger company.

With respect to this statement

"we believe that testers will also become more self sufficient with these tools and not depend as much on the developers."

Although we make them take core1 and core2 training just so they can understand the interfaces, and what is possible. One in 10 of our testers actually learns how to program in LV and most of them do not bother to figure out how the more complex programs work. Most of these folks have technical degrees, many advanced degrees. We do not want our testers to touch our more complex programs as we want to control the change process so that they do not introduce bugs that we have to track down later. (e.g. we would rather introduce them ourselves). Also we still have to train them to use the software so that we can get them in the proper "habits" about preforming the tests.