Compliance Verification Program (CVP)

The CVP is a program initiated by the OPNFV Board of Directors with the following key objectives:

• • Help build the market for
    • OPNFV-based infrastructure
    • applications designed to run on that infrastructure
  • Reduce adoption risks for end-users
  • Decrease testing costs by verifying hardware and software platform interfaces and components
  • Enhance interoperabilit

Dovetail is the project that delivers all the open source software toolchain, documentation, and test suite for CVP. The Certification and Compliance committee (C&C committee) serves as the program's administrator on behalf the OPNFV Board.

More details of CVP can be found in the CVP document.

System Under Test (SUT)

The System Under Test (SUT) are products from vendors, not OPNFV release artifacts themselves. OPNFV development tooling, such as CI/CD, is also not part of the SUT. The vendors can bring up the SUT to a pre-Dovetail-test state in any way they choose. Dovetail will provide documentation to help the testers to prepare and configure the SUT.

In the current CVP version (Danube release time of Dovetail), the SUT consists of NFVI software, VIM software, and necessary hardware in one System Under Test. The hardware should follow Pharos guidelines (but generalized in the Dovetail documentation to remove specifics tied to ). Vendors can use their own hardware, or third party or white box hardware to be tested as a whole. And if the combined whole passes the test suite, the CVP label applies to the software.
The Danube cycle does not plan to test hardware-only systems.

• Test Suite

• CVP Compliance Test Suite

• Experimental Test Suite

• Test Area

• Test Case

• CVP server

• CVP (or Dovetail) client

• CVP User's Guide

• Test Area review worksheet document