to send next and also decides whether the user equipment 108 has passed or failed usually with reference to guideline materials fig3 shows a wireless test apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention the apparatus has a test computer 300 connected to a database 310 and also connected to a network simulator 328 the network simulator 328 includes a controller 332 protocol stack module s 330 and a wireless transceiver 334 the protocol stack modules 330 are connected to the wireless transceiver 334 which is in turn is coupled to an antenna 336 capable of bidirectional wireless communication with user equipment 340 the equipment 340 under test may be for example a cellular phone pda tablet or other mobile computer dongles connected to a computer software based protocol stacks running on a computer prototype hardware and or embedded wireless devices for machine to machine type applications the test computer 300 is provided with a suite of applications including in this example a test application 302 a logger application 304 and a post processing application 306 the novel test application 302 running on the test computer 300 calls test specifications from the database 310 and configures novel types of non determinative test regimes in order for them to be automatically executed via the network simulator 328 examples of certain test specifications which might be recorded in the database include but are not limited to those for determining long term signalling overheads i e volume of signalling and or determination of signalling event frequency timing of signalling in this example the protocol stack module 330 is a configurable protocol stack in that its various layers can support a variety of known wireless telecommunication radio access technologies including for example 2g 3g and or lte also.