Chapter 2.

Recently Introduced Features in TEMS Investigation

feeds, and loading friend lists. The usual “success rate” and “average time”
KPIs can be computed for each operation.

2.3.3.4. Instagram Testing

TEMS Investigation 17.0 can also test the Instagram photo sharing service.
A new on-device service performs the essential operations of logging on to
Instagram, loading picture feeds, searching for a hashtag, and logging off.
Any Instagram account can be used for this testing: no special configuration
is required. Success rates and execution times are recorded just as for
Facebook.

2.3.3.5. Multiple Concurrent FTP Sessions

With the on-device FTP client, it became possible to download/upload
multiple instances of the same file concurrently. This feature is a
convenient means of increasing the load when testing high-speed
connections.

2.3.3.6. Multi-thread FTP Download

Yet another new option for FTP download was to distribute a file transfer
over multiple threads, each thread downloading a different part of the file.
The point of using this option is to let you assess the performance gain
achieved with multi-threading compared to single-thread download.
Multiplying threads does not change the total traffic load, unlike the option
discussed in section 2.3.3.5.

2.3.3.7. Streaming Quality Measurement with PEVQ-S

PEVQ is an algorithm for perceptual evaluation of video quality. It resembles
PESQ and POLQA for speech in that it is a full-reference algorithm
comparing the degraded video with the original, frame by frame and pixel by
pixel. PEVQ models the human visual system all the way from the eye to the
image-processing parts of the brain, quantifying the severity of distortions and
artifacts as humans perceive them.
PEVQ-S (“S” for streaming), in addition to analyzing video frames with PEVQ,
also makes use of bitstream data from which it obtains information on codec
type, bit rate, frame rate, some transmission errors, and spatial/temporal
shifts. PEVQ-S is therefore classified as a “hybrid” algorithm as opposed to
PEVQ proper, which relies solely on an analysis of the video signal.

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