Abstract. The intermittent fault of electronic system is often misdiagnosed as a permanent fault, resulting in problems such as unnecessary repeated downtime, excessive repair and a large loss of spare parts, and affecting equipment readiness. Starting from the overall development of intermittent fault for electronic system to tease out the research direction, this paper focuses on the research of intermittent fault for electronic system from four aspects: the failure mode, cause and mechanism analysis, modeling method, detection method and diagnosis / prediction method, and points out the shortcomings of the current research on intermittent fault of electronic system.