Reconfigurable Test Software

The general test system developed in recent years has solved the generality problem of test equipments. However, the software for test systems still does not meet the demand of generality nowadays, so that we have to change its code or totally reprogram it when that is applied from one unit under test (UUT) to another. In order to solve this problem, we propose a reconfigurable test software (RTS) based on automatic test markup language (ATML) and IVI-COM. It uses the virtual instrument modules and some other functional components which already exist to implement the dynamic reorganization of test system or test function. When the test requirements or the instruments are changed, RTS doesn't need to reprogram. In this paper, the framework of RTS is introduced at first, and then the behavior model and extensibility of RTS is described. At last, it has been demonstrated how to use ATML to describe test procedures.