This standard defines the framework of building household appliance test software system based on complex virtual instruments (CVIs) which are used for processing and displaying the sensor data from intelligent sensors and the related metadata. This framework provides the guidelines for CVI-based development process, in which CVI structure design covers management of sensor data and metadata, virtual instrument engine based on description of appliance testing ambient and test information, data formats of test data, and Representational State Transfer (REST ) service interfaces for CVI interactions; CVI mapping schemes describe the correspondence from test units to CVIs; CVI relations define the relationships between CVIs and describe the methods of extending and compositing multiple CVIs.