Patent ID: 7802140

Claim:
A computer readable medium containing a diagnostic program for instructing a testing apparatus comprising a plurality of test modules, including a diagnostic object test module and a non-diagnostic object test module, for providing a device under test with a test signal and a control apparatus for controlling the plurality of test modules, the diagnostic program for instructing the test apparatus to diagnose the plurality of test modules, the diagnostic program comprising: a first software module for making the control apparatus diagnose the diagnostic object test module; a plurality of second software modules which are provided in the control apparatus, one of said plurality of second software modules corresponding to the type of the non-diagnostic object test module, and which make the control apparatus control the non-diagnostic object test module to receive through an input channel a signal for diagnosis output by the diagnostic object test module or to output a signal for diagnosis through an output channel to the diagnostic object test module; a third software module for making the control apparatus specify the second software module that corresponds to the type of the non-diagnostic object test module, in response to a call received from said first software module which instructs said third software module to receive the signal for diagnosis from or send the signal for diagnosis to the non-diagnostic object test module; and a fourth software module for making the control apparatus call the second software module specified by said third software module, making the diagnostic object test module input the signal for diagnosis to the non-diagnostic object test module, or making the non-diagnostic object test module output the signal for diagnosis to the diagnostic object test module.