For service certification Companies

The introduction of new players in the Telecom market may require from operators a certification process of services before putting them in production. At this point, the certification companies may make use of the V&V Platform (Verification and Valida-tion Platform) to validate and verify VNFs and NSs through automatic test.

This entity could be a third-party which business focuses on testing services against different Service Platforms; a developer, making use, for example, of a testing service platform that mirrors the operator’s production platform; or the operator itself wanting to test the services before they go to production.

The V&V Platform offers quality assurance, shortens the feedback loops and allows the tests execution planner, reducing the time and cost of test development for entities. 

Compared to the local tests offered by the developer, V&V achieves much more complete tests in environments similar to those of production. These exhaustive tests in a similar environment to production make it possible to improve the quality and reliability of services, which benefits both service developers and service provid-ers, but also leads to a superior experience for the end user. In this way, the V&V tries to avoid mistakes in real environments, offering tests in environments similar to those of production.