Patent ID: 7701243

Claim:
A method of testing electronic devices wherein each electronic device comprises a terminal, the method comprising: obtaining a contactor device comprising a plurality of electrically conductive probes, one of the probes comprising a tip configured to contact the terminal of one of the electronic devices, the tip comprising a plurality of different contact features, wherein initially none of said different contact features has been selected; selecting one of the contact features of the tip not previously selected as a selected contact feature; contacting the terminal of one of the electronic devices with only the selected contact feature; providing a test signal through the one of the probes to the one of the electronic devices; repeating the contacting and the providing using different ones of the electronic devices until determining that a predetermined condition regarding the selected contact feature has been reached; and after determining that the predetermined condition regarding the selected contact feature has been reached, repeating the selecting, the contacting, the providing, and the repeating the contacting and the providing.