Test apparatus for testing mobile communication terminal and message display method for displaying message associated with the testing

A test apparatus for a mobile communication terminal comprising:

• a pseudo base station configured to exchange messages with the mobile communication terminal to be tested;
• a display unit configured to display a table having message items arranged in a row;
• and
• a display control unit configured to display a plurality of messages exchanged by the pseudo base station, wherein the messages are allocated in time sequence to the message items in the row of the table on the display unit,
• wherein the display control unit comprises:
• a message analysis unit configured to acquire and analyze the messages from the pseudo base station;
• and
• a tag addition unit configured to detect a group of messages configured of a series of messages which have a mutual association and are consecutive in time sequence among the messages analyzed by the message analysis unit and to add a tag for identifying each group of messages to each detected group of messages, and
• the display control unit displays the tag together with the series of messages, wherein the tag is allocated to one of the message items in the row of the table on the display unit so as to identity the respective groups of messages allocated to the message items in the row of the table, and the tag associated with the group of messages is located in the one of the message items immediately before the series of messages configuring the group of messages.