General detect system is used to solve a series of problems currently existing equipment and realize the conformity of resources, its important elements include the detect adapter and software. The adapter is introduced, including the adapter components, the circuit design principles and etc; the test describe software provides standard description for testing, and produces describe documents, including the tested object signals and adapter describe, test flow describe. The adapter can be auto-identified by mass ATS in selftest phrase to keep the security of system; the describe documents are convenient to write the test software compilation. The system can accomplish capability test and fault diagnosis of the general detect platform by the adapter and software.