This paper describes the implementation of the test system of the ITT System 1240 digital switch that was developed for line, trunk, and service circuit maintenance and diagnostics. At the core of the test system is a problem-oriented, remotely programmable, digital signal processor called the test signal analyzer (TSA). The TSA is a versatile signal generation and measurement tool, whose signal processing power is made readily available to the test engineer as a set of high-level functional instructions, rather than as a primitive register transfer language, or as inflexible test-specific instructions. Specifically, this paper briefly describes the TSA implementation, identifies the functions that are fundamental to any telecommunications test system, presents some of the digital signal processing algorithms, and gives a measurement example.