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diff --git a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ee68226ad --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International +.. License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. (c) OPNFV, Ericsson AB and others. + +========= +Yardstick +========= + +.. _Yardstick: https://wiki.opnfv.org/yardstick +.. _Presentation: https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/opnfv_summit_-_yardstick_project.pdf +.. _NFV-TST001: https://docbox.etsi.org/ISG/NFV/Open/Drafts/TST001_-_Pre-deployment_Validation/ +.. _Yardsticktst: https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/opnfv_summit_-_bridging_opnfv_and_etsi.pdf + +The project's goal is to verify infrastructure compliance, from the perspective +of a Virtual Network Function (VNF). + +The Project's scope is the development of a test framework, *Yardstick*, test +cases and test stimuli to enable Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure +(NFVI) verification. + +In OPNFV Brahmaputra release, generic test cases covering aspects of the +metrics in the document ETSI GS NFV-TST001_, "Pre-deployment Testing; Report on +Validation of NFV Environments and Services" are available; further OPNFV +releases will provide extended testing of these metrics. + +The Project also includes a sample VNF, the Virtual Traffic Classifier (VTC) +and its experimental framework, *ApexLake*. + +*Yardstick* is used in OPNFV for verifying the OPNFV infrastructure and some of +the OPNFV features. The *Yardstick* framework is deployed in several OPNFV +community labs. It is *installer*, *infrastructure* and *application* +independent. + + +.. seealso:: This Presentation_ for an overview of *Yardstick* and + Yardsticktst_ for material on alignment ETSI TST001 and Yardstick. |