This paper has discussed the characteristics of the development of automobile components test system.Based on the development example of vehicle hyraulic shock absorber test system,the paper has built general measurement & control software platform for automobile components tests,carved up main function modules along with the class libraries for platform,and adopts multi-thread technology to guarantee platform's real-time performance.The platform has enough flexible and extensible capability,and can satisfy the requirements of software developing for modern automobile components test system.