A system supporting tests of real-time telecommunication platforms

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a test system, which has been created for testing real-time telecommunication platforms. The system has been created as an automate test tool, that can execute and analyze tests without the supervision of the test personnel. This paper describes the design of the tool, which is based on the concept of software agents that allowed achieving full automation of the test procedure. Attention is paid to the systempsilas usage in performance tests, where the test system utilizes hardware traffic generators that can generate vast amount of traffic, simulating data streams from many users, and where hardware traffic analyzers are used for processing this data and providing statistics which are used in the testpsilas analysis. The system has been initially created to conduct performance tests on the Intelpsilas UMTS Radio Network Controller, but its design allowed using it testing other telecommunication platforms.