VNF Test Platform (VTP)

Objectives

as part of LFN CVP ONAP wants test platform where VNF packages could be certified using ONAP requirements to drive industry adoption
Provide an platform where vendor/operator can develop, deploy, run test cases and query the results
Test cases, test results and VNF should be manageable .i,e with authorization, so only user with given roles is allowed to perform operation like
VNF package upload/download, run compliance verification tests, allow only specific VIM for specific users, etc.
Test results should be persisted and should be available for human analysis later via LFN infrastructure.
Provides test flow where author make flow across different test cases for a given program like compliance verification and VNFREQS/SOL0004.
Provide integration with OPNFV dovetail to run test cases across dovetail and VNFSDK.
Deployable as docker container.

Overview

A vert generic test platform for perfoming various VNF testing and could be used at different stage such as CI/CD, LFN OVP certification, onboarding, design and active&passive testing.

Usecases

It has been used for following usecases:

Demos

Above usecases are demoed in following ONS events

Others

Press Releases

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onap-doubles-down-on-deployments-drives-commercial-activity-across-open-source-networking-stack-with-dublin-release-300881744.html

— In ONAP, VTP plays this role.

— mentioned about the VNF Test Platform (VTP) as "publically available VNF compliance testing tool"

REST API

Casablanca

"/onapapi/vnfsdk-marketplace/v1/vtp/tests": {
      "get": {
        "tags": [
          "VNF Test Platform"
        ],
        "summary": "VTP Test cases",
        "description": "Returns the list of test cases",
        "operationId": "listTests",
        "produces": [
          "application/json"
        ],
        "parameters": [],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "successful operation",
            "schema": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "500": {
            "description": "Failed to retrieve the tests",
            "schema": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "/onapapi/vnfsdk-marketplace/v1/vtp/tests/{testName}/run": {
      "post": {
        "tags": [
          "VNF Test Platform"
        ],
        "summary": "Run VTP testcase",
        "description": "Runs the given test case and returns the result",
        "operationId": "runTest",
        "consumes": [
          "application/json"
        ],
        "produces": [
          "application/json"
        ],
        "parameters": [
          {
            "name": "testName",
            "in": "path",
            "description": "test Name",
            "required": true,
            "type": "string"
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "404": {
            "description": "Test case not found",
            "schema": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "500": {
            "description": "VTP internal failure",
            "schema": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

Dublin

Provides required API for qureying and executing the test cases as part of VSP Compliance check use case in dublin.

More details VTP REST API v1