1. A battery tester for testing a storage battery, comprising: electronic test circuitry configured to couple to the battery and provide a measurement output related to a condition of the battery; a user input configured to receive a query response from a user to a user query given to the user; a memory containing a plurality of user queries related to battery query and a plurality of query relationships which relate the query response from the user to one or more queries to battery type; and a processor configured to output information related to a determined battery type based upon the query response and at least one of the plurality of query relationships and the measurement output.