Patent ID: 8620620

Claim:
A method of testing a circuit card assembly (CCA) comprising: connecting an extender board to a CCA, said CCA having CCA memory; providing computer readable program code to cause a computer to verify the existence and connection of instrumentation; providing computer readable program code to cause a variable declaration to inform an electronic compiler a name and associated type of variable that data will be stored under; providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to store CCA card state parameters in a data structure; providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to write data to said CCA memory; providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to perform a hardware interrupt; providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to orient external test fixtures; providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to orient test equipment; providing computer readable program code to cause said test equipment to measure at least one aspect of CCA functionality; and providing computer readable program code to cause said computer to analyze said measurement of said at least one aspect of CCA functionality to determine whether it falls within a predetermined percent error of operating specifications.