- Contributions:
- Saad Ullah Sheikh - Saad contribution-section 6.Test Case automation and intelligence using ONAP ; CNCF conformance
- Lei Huang- 3.1-3.3
- Cecilia Corbi - 3.2.1 Research status of NFV automated testing in standard organizations - ENI?
- Others?
3.1 NFV automated testing status
Note:Analyze the current status of NFV automated testing.
At present, the degree of automation of NFV testing by service providers are still relatively low, and there are a lot of cross-departmental and cross-organizational communication, manual errors are inevitable. The problems that still need to be resolved include:
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3.2 Research status of NFV automated testing in various organizations
Note: Investigate existing research content, progress and status of automated testing in various industry organizations, including standard organizations, open source communities, etc.
3.2.1 Research status of NFV automated testing in standard organizations
Note: Research status of NFV automated testing in various standard organizations, including ETSI NFV TST, ZSM, 3GPP, ENI, etc.
- ETSI NFV TST
Note: Briefly introduce the main work content of the ETSI NFV TST working group, and provide relevant information.
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
- ETSI ISG ZSM
Note: Briefly introduce the main work content of the ETSI ISG ZSM, and provide relevant information.
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
- 3GPP SA5
Note: Briefly introduce the main work content of the 3GPP SA5, and provide relevant information.
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
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3.2.2 Research status of NFV automated testing in open source communities
Note: Research status of NFV automated testing in various open source communities, including ONAP, OPNFV, CDF, CNCF conformance, etc.
(One contribution from Saad- 6.Test Case automation and intelligence using ONAP)
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After enabling this automated testing framework, CSPs can leverage it to accelerate time to deployment for new network services, improve interoperability and software quality, and reduce in-house testing effort and reduce costs. Vendor can leverage it to deduce the cost of VNF developing, and improve time to revenue for new product offerings, achieve greater alignment with customer requirements from service provider, and demonstrate product quality through open ecosystem testing. Instrument manufacturers can integrate their test tools and test capabilities into this platform, and demonstrate product quality through open ecosystem testing. Integrators can refer to the open source implementation of this platform and provide solutions for their commercial products. At the same time, the realization of this requirement can be combined with OVP's existing processes to accelerate the testing and certification of OVP NFV commercial products.
- OPNFV
Note: In OPNFV, briefly introduce projects related to automated testing, including Functest, Dovetail, Airship, CIRV, Xtesting, etc.
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
- Openstack ZUUL
Note: Briefly introduce Openstack ZUUL project.
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
- CDF
Note: Briefly introduce CDF(Continuous Delivery Foundation).
(Contribution- CMCC, others?)
- CNFC CNCF conformance
(Contribution- STC, Saad)
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3.3 NFV automated testing requirements
Note: According to current situation of automated testing, further analyze the requirements of automated testing from the perspective of test scenarios or test objects.
The test is carried out in the way of "test framework + test instrument/tool + test object", including preparation of environment and deployment, configuration, preparation and execution of service parameters, test cases, as well as test process observation, and provision of test reports. In general, NFV automated testing requirements should include-
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