From the analysis of technological operations carried out in the course of testing it was found that the most general operations unrelated to direct measurements consists of registration and processing, whose level of automation does not exceed 30%. The implementation of these operations on various installations differs only by the volume of the recorded readings, the complexity of their processing, and the duration of filling the output document. Installations for testing temperature-measuring instruments were subjected to analysis, since they are one of the most widely used (95%) types of measurements in State Inspection Laboratories (LGNs). Analysis of the existing Soviet and foreign practical methods for automatizing test installations by means of computers made it possible to determine the basic trends in the automation of testing processes. In mechanizing and automatizing testing it is possible to use computer equipment for controlling testing automatically, automatic recording, collection, and storage of measured information (machine media: punch cards, punched tape, magnetic tape), automatic processing of measurement results according to given algorithms, and releasing the obtained information with the required completeness (for different types of test-laboratory accountancies). The application of controlling computers will serve to automate, during testing operations, the setting of input signals, as well as the regulation, processing, and releasing of documents of the required form. The automation of recording, processing, and releasing of the output documents can be attained by using a specialized computer attached to or incorporated in the testing installation, by using a universal computer for processing the results obtained in testing one or several types of instruments, and by using a computer for organizing a centralized measurementresult processing system for the entire nomenclature of instruments tested in the laboratory. Bearing in mind the degree of the testing installations's automation and loading, the diversity of input and output signal levels, and the lack of the testing equipment's matching to the computer, it is most promising at present to use computers for centralized measurement-result processing, storage of all the test results, and output of any required summaries from the analysis of the measuring equipment's condition [I, 2]. In order to provide a brief description, various systems' versions [i] were denoted in the following manner: "Delta-I" is a system with centralized processing by means of keyboard cal