LF Networking Releases Compliance, Verification Testing

Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) today released a compliance and testing tool that enables network operators to automate for validation requirements developed within the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). With relatively few open source projects doing validation and testing, the move is akin to the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) growing up to include virtual network function (VNF) compliance testing in conjunction with the ONAP community, explained Heather Kirksey, director of OPNFV at LF Networking. The move also marks a change for how network compliance and verification was done in the past, she said in a phone interview. “We’re really trying to do more agile development” and the group plans to continuously improve and add more testing capabilities. “We’re continuing to advance this compliance and validation effort with the idea that there’s still a lot more we want to do.”
Getting the OPNFV Verification Program (OVP) into the hands of carriers is an important step in that journey, Kirksey explained. The expanded program is also interoperable with ONAP-based onboarding requirements based on Heat and TOSCA packages and combines testing for multiple parts of the NFV stack.By creating automated test suites to validate and qualify for network deployment, LF Networking aims to help operators improve the quality of their code, reduce costs and accelerate deployment.