Summary
Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium
2020
Session Number:P2
Session:
Number:P2-1
Design and Implementation of Comprehensive Test Automation Method for API Adapter in C-Plane and U-Plane
Sho Kanemaru, Tomoki Ikegaya, Kensuke Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Toyoshima,
pp.275-278
Publication Date:2020/9/22
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The Business-to-Business-to-X (B2B2X) model has increased the importance of orchestrators that build and operate services that consists of various wholesale services. To develop RESTful API-based services, service providers need to catch up on the specifications of new wholesale services and specification changes of existing services quickly and inexpensively. Therefore, it is important to develop software called an API adapter that absorbs API differences from various services quickly and inexpensively. In this paper, we propose a method for comprehensively automating testing of not only C-Plane signals such as service provisioning/change/abolishment but also U-Plane signals such as communication between user devices and servers. We implemented our proposal using open source software and found that it improved test efficiency in an actual software development project.