In Daya Bay nuclear power plant,the governor pre-debug of emergency diesel is inefficient,and the result could not be verified.To solve these problems,a governor testing system was developed by adopting the virtual instrument technology.The system developed with LabVIEW and consisted of notebook,signal conditional unit and data acquisition cards,can realize the test of the governor static and dynamic characteristics,including the simulation of input signal,real-time measurement and preservation of the output signal,and data analysis.The successful application in Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant shows that this governor test system is stable and efficient.