Development method and system of chip testing software

The invention discloses a method and system for developing IC (Integrated Circuit) testing software, which are applied to the development and debugging of the testing software in chip testing. The system at least comprises a mainframe, a plurality of computers or network terminals for running the program of the mainframe, an ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) emulator, a plurality of computers or network terminals for running the program of the ATE emulator, and a data source used for any carriers of effective data of the program of the mainframe, wherein the effective data is used for recording the data for which the ATE emulator can not perform direct access. According to the invention, an ATE data processing module, a network communication module and the program of the mainframe are developed without the existence of the ATE, so that the ATE which does not participate in the development of the chip testing software can be used for formal testing, thus the development cost of the chip testing software is greatly lowered; meanwhile, the participation of a chip is not required, so that the development of the chip testing software can be started earlier, therefore, the time delay of the chip testing, caused by the development of the chip testing software, is avoided, namely that the time-to-market of the chip is shortened; and in addition, the software developing and debugging time for a developer is enough, so that the software success rate can be sufficiently ensured.