Polymorphic automatic test systems and methods

摘要

An automatic test system includes a hardware layer 12 including at least two resources (21A ... 21 N) a server executable (14) including at least two resource instrument components (24A ... 24N), corresponding to the at least two hardware resources, and a dynamic resource allocation component (28). Preferably, the automatic test system further includes at least two virtual composite instrument components (26A ... 26N). The dynamic resource allocation component maintains a list of all available resources and their current state. The dynamic resource allocation component maintains a list of known instruments. The dynamic resource allocation component maintains list of virtual to physical connection possibilities.