Details of 'RGR/NFV-TST004ed112' Work Item

	Work Item Reference	ETSI Doc. Number	STF	Technical Body in Charge		Download Standard
	RGR/NFV-TST004ed112	GR NFV-TST 004		NFV TST
	Current Status (Click to View Full Schedule)	Latest Version	Cover Date	Standstill		Creation Date
	Publication (2017-07-28)	1.1.2	2017-07-28	View Standstill Information		2017-07-28
	Rapporteur	Technical Officer		Harmonised Standard
	Al Morton	Laurent Vreck		No
Title	Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Testing; Guidelines for Test Plan on Path Implementation through NFVI NFVI_PATH_TEST report
Scope and Field of Application	This work item provides guidelines for test plans that assess different approaches to defining SDN Applications, different ways of arranging and federating SDN Controllers, and arrangements of network switching/forwarding functions (both physical and virtual) to create the various path-implementations between and among NS Endpoints and VNFs. These guidelines support development of detailed test plans, and ultimately influence the NFV framework (when testers share their results from testing arrangements encouraged by these guidelines). The test plan guidelines should be sufficiently abstract to include all envisioned possibilities, and will also pursue the details of technologies of interest. Although the primary emphasis of testing is the performance and benchmarking of systems composed of the components above, the attempts to combine different protocols and functions will undoubtedly uncover combinations which are non-interoperable, and these should be noted. (See NFV(15)FTR011r2 for more information, including SDOs/areas of collaboration outside this scope.)
Supporting Organizations	TELEFONICA S.A., Spirent Communications, AT&T GNS Belgium SPRL, EANTC AG

	Keywords	Projects	Clusters	Frequencies	Mandates	Directives
	NFV NFVI SDN TESTING		Networks
Official Journal
Remarks	2017-07-28 vreck TST004 was published with 2 typos in the title ==> Proceeding to immediate re-publication to correct this.