Automatic ATML test description translation to a COTS test executive

In response to the lack of common formats for documenting automatic test information, the Naval Air Systems Command led the creation of the Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) to standardize the documentation and reporting of automatic test information. ATML defines classes that represent automatic test system (ATS) components, such as test description, test results and instrument description, and the interoperability between classes. As an emerging standard, ATML classes have different levels of definition and adoption. One of the most adopted classes in the ATML standard is Test Description (TD). Organizations are expecting the adoption of the ATML TD standard to reduce the development and maintenance costs for test program sets (TPSs).