US Patent 7797590 Consensus testing of electronic system

Consensus testing of electronic system. A tester (112) for testing an electronic system (100) includes: a traffic interface (114) to receive traffic (102) from a test of an electronic system (100); an element comparator (118) to extract a value from an element of the traffic (102) and to compare the extracted element value with an element value (110) obtained from another test of another electronic system (104, 106, 108); and a test result generator (122) to generate consensus information (124) on the interoperability of the electronic system (100), based on comparing (120) the extracted element values of the electronic system (100) with the element values obtained from the other test of the other electronic system (104, 106, 108).