VNF Test Platform (VTP)

Objectives

  • As part of LFN Anuket Certification Program, 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:

  1. VSP compliance check (on-boarding phase)

  2. VNF validation (certification phase)

  3. VNF OVP certifications (certification phase)

  4. Test flow design

    1. TSC 2019-12-05

      1. https://wiki.onap.org/download/attachments/71835507/OVP%20Augment%20with%20ONAP-v1.1.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1575595693000&api=v2

Demos

Above usecases are demoed in following ONS events

  1. ONS NA 2019

  2. ONS EU 2019

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