Patent ID: 8867372

Claim:
A method of testing a plurality of communication devices in a test period, comprising: transmitting a sequence of data packets from a tester; replicating in parallel the sequence of data packets to create a parallel sequence of data packets; transmitting each parallel sequence of data packets to a respective one of a plurality of devices under test (DUTs); repackaging the received sequence of data packets and transmitting the repackaged data packets from each one of the plurality of DUTs to the tester; and determining a faulty DUT from the plurality of DUTs by evaluating whether a repackaged data package has been forwarded from a respective DUT within the test period by: selecting from among the repackaged data packets in a prescribed time slot; and evaluating whether a first repackaged data packet is available within the prescribed time slot and, if not, evaluating whether a second repackaged data packet is available within another time slot of the test period.