ATML defines a standard exchange medium for sharing information between components of ATSs. This information includes test data, resource data, diagnostic data, and historic data. The exchange medium is defined using XML. This standard specifies the framework for the family of ATML standards. The purpose of ATML is to support TP, test asset, and UUT interoperability within an automatic test environment. ATML accomplishes this through a standard medium for exchanging UUT, test, and diagnostic information between components of the test system. The purpose of this standard is to provide an overview of ATML goals, define the ATML family of standards, and specify common data elements for the ATML family of standards. Revision Standard - Inactive-Reserved. This document specifies a framework for the automatic test markup language (ATML) family of standards. ATML allows automatic test system (ATS) and test information to be exchanged in a common format adhering to the extensible markup language (XML) standard.