This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) establishes software capability guidelines for computer controlled test equipment, hereinafter referred to as automatic test equipment (ATE), for testing hydraulic components. A typical ATE system is shown in Figure 1. The items herein have been selected as potential features which may or may not be applicable to a particular application. This document does not address software development requirements, qualification procedures, or hardware design requirements, but encourages users to refer to existing documents, defined in 2.1.1, for guidance on such issues.

Field of Application:

It is anticipated that this document will be used as an aid and/or guideline for aerospace support equipment engineers, who are either designing ATE for hydraulic components or preparing design/ procurement specifications for such equipment. In this document, "shall" denotes a requirement while "may" denotes a typical implementation. Because of the interdependency between system software and hardware and software requirements, it is anticipated that users of this document will separately establish the ATE hardware requirements.

NOTE: Hardware specification should specify operator input/output (I/O) devices, such as, but not limited to, graphics compatible printer, plotter, high resolution monitor, touchscreen, sealed keypad, floppy disk drive, RS-232 or IEEE-488 I/O ports. Such hardware features affect software requirements.)