The quality assessment of moving-bed tests is completed in three steps as follows:
(1) a detailed step evaluates the actual moving-bed test based on specific criteria for loop or stationary tests;
(2) on the basis of the results of that detailed evaluation, QRev selects the moving-bed test(s) to use in determination of a moving-bed condition; and
(3) the ADQA is completed on the results of the selected moving-bed test and provides the color coded and textual feedback to the user in the main QRev window.
The detailed evaluation for loop tests uses that same criteria and algorithms used in LC (Mueller and others, 2013) and gives the loop moving-bed test a quality rating of good, warnings, or errors. The specific messages related to each loop moving-bed test are displayed in the Messages panel. For stationary tests QRev evaluates the quality of individual stationary moving-bed tests. The evaluation examines the percentage of ensembles with invalid bottom track velocities, examines the duration of the test, and determines if the test appears to have reached equilibrium (Mueller, 2016).