Patent ID: 8396429

Claim:
A communication test method of performing wireless communication between a base station unit and a mobile communication terminal under test on the basis of a scenario selected from among scenarios stored in a scenario storage unit, said scenarios defining procedures for wireless communication with said mobile communication terminal, and having test term names needed for the identification of tests based on said procedures, said communication test method comprising: an accumulating step of accumulating a test term name of a test to be executed between said base station unit and said mobile communication terminal on the basis of said scenario in association with time information indicative of the time of starting said test, and accumulating throughput data regarding throughput for a specific unit of data to be exchanged between said mobile communication terminal and said base station unit on the basis of said scenario in association with said time information; an extracting step of extracting said test term name and said throughput data from said accumulating means; a first trace display step of displaying said test term name extracted in said extracting step on a display unit; a throughput display step of displaying a graph showing the variation with time of throughput based said throughput data extracted in said extracting step; a designating step of allowing a user to designate at least one point selected for a designated analysis from an area on said graph; a time obtaining step of obtaining a time corresponding to said designated point, and a second trace display step of displaying, on said display unit, said test term name executed at said time obtained in said time obtaining step and extracted from said accumulating means in said extracting step on the basis of said time information in a way that said test term name is distinguished from other test term names on said display unit.