Patent ID: 6853943

Claim:
A system for testing a load state of at least one device in the case of a load by a plurality of users, the device being connected to a communications network based on an IP standard, the system comprising: a control device having an assigned memory device storing a plurality of session scripts each session script containing an initialization procedure, a predefined test procedure, and a termination procedure; and at least one session computer connected to the control device and comprising: a plurality of mutually independent connection interfaces; and a plurality of script-processing devices being able to simultaneously establish mutually independent connections via the connection interfaces, to a device to be tested, wherein each script-processing device executes at least one session script received from the control device through each of the mutually independent connection interfaces to simulate a load of a plurality of users on the device to be tested, wherein the at least one session computer logs messages generated by the execution of the at least one session script to evaluate a load state of the device to be tested.