Using object-orientation in developing a flexible automatic test system

Aiming at improving the reconfiguration capability of an automatic testing system for turbine machinery, the method of object orientation is employed to develop its software. Since the project size is small, we adopt a compact and pragmatic approach to construct this object-oriented application instead of using complicated commercial object-oriented methods. Although the method is simple, it covers all phases from collecting customer requirements to testing the code. In this paper, the five main phases of the object-oriented method (requirements capture, analysis, design, programming and testing) are presented. The successful practical application proves that the adopted object-oriented method is efficient for this software development.