Ate software, whence - whither

Standardization efforts within ATE software have been aimed pri marily at the languages used to prepare test programs. In the future the diversity of computer con figurations available to ATE will increase tremendously. To take full advantage of this diversity in a coherent manner will require some standardization of operating system features. The primary goal of such standardization should be the operator to computer interface. Given such standardization a wide range of possibilities become available without the disadvantages that diverse operator interfaces impose.