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Network Services for testing

  • NSID1V: Simple NS, i.e. single VNF | Additional versions: OSM
  • NSID2V: Simple composite NS, i.e. two or more VNFs
  • NSID1C: Simple container based NS, i.e. single CNF
  • NSID2C: Simple container based NS, i.e. two CNFs
  • NSID3V: Scalable NS (VNF) -- not available
  • NSID4: Mixed NS (CNF and VNF) -- not available

xSM (FSM/SSM)

The SONATA SP supports the concept of Service Specific Manager (SSM) and Function Specific Manager (FSM). Testing version of these managers are available in the following link xSM

SLAs

Each deployment may be associated with particular SLAs or policies. The examples are located in the following link Testing SLA.

Policies

-- not available --

Infrastructure Configurations for testing

Test Case Descriptor

The methodology for the system level evaluations is based on previous work of ETSI NFV ETSI NFV-TST001

This document presents a testing template for the description of the test cases and the anticipated results. The modified version of the template can be seen below:

This is transposed from ETSI NFV TST001

Test Case Name Test Case id
Test Purpose
Configuration NS to be used, configuration of Infrastructure etc
Test Tool
Metric
References e.g. RFC XXX
Applicability Components that are applicable for this test
Pre-test conditions Monitoring configuration, additional metrics etc
Test sequence Step Description Result
Step Description Result
Test Verdict Descriptive text here
Additional Resources Graphs etc