The invention discloses a
software ecological management method of
automatic test equipment and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of
integrated circuit test. The method comprises the following steps: automatically writing a
version identifier containing
firmware information of an upper computer and a lower computer when a
test program is compiled; when the program is loaded, the
system obtains the actual version of the current
operating environment and compares the actual version with the
version identifier; if the versions are not matched, the
system interrupts program execution through consistency
verification and an
interlocking controller, and a version switching manager is started; and the version switching manager automatically closes the current environment according to the
version identifier, searches a version information base, switches the
software of the upper computer, synchronously updates the
firmware of the lower computer to a target version, and restores the test after the environment
verification is passed. Through binding during compiling and forced
verification during loading, automatic and accurate switching of the test environment is achieved, the problems that manual switching is prone to errors and
software and hardware
collaboration is poor are solved, and the test risk and the maintenance cost are remarkably reduced.