Overview and Guidelines for...

SOA/NPAC, Internal and Inter-carrier testing

SOA Testing

May 1, 2001 to September 30, 2001 Must be coordinated through Neustar Not a topic for discussion in this forum

Internal (intra-company) testing

Timeframe– Now to September 30, 2001– Guidelines on Section 1.0.1 of industry test

plan– Once the intra-company testing of affected nodes and network, and the

certification testing with the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) is successfully completed, the Test Coordinator will schedule inter-company testing. Prior to initiating the inter-company testing, all intra-company testing must be completed by the individual Service Providers.

Inter-carrier testing

Excerpt from Industy test document Section 1.0.3 “Each Service Provider will conduct a set of test scripts between itself

and another service provider. Specific combinations of participants will be determined by the participants themselves, using the recommended list defined in Section 3…. Participants may choose to run additional tests developed by individual Service Provider combinations that address any specific needs, architectures or business arrangements of the testing partners.

Service Providers participating in a particular location will negotiate for test partners and test selections. Their Test Coordinators will manage this process by developing a master test schedule and track the testing done in each location by each Service Provider”

Wireless/Wireline porting

Any porting between wireless and wireline will default to wireline “long” timers

Wireless/wireline porting

SHORT WPR form Hours of operation -

will be discussed later ICC time

– 30 minutes

NPAC T1/T2 timer-– 1 hr each

LONG LSR form Hours of operation- will be discussed later ICC time

– 24 hour

NPAC T1/T2 Timer– 9 hours each

Reseller porting

Facility based provider is responsible for NPAC communication for its reseller

FB provider’s SPID will be on the NPAC record

Responsibility for ICC process is determined by each carrier

Reseller/Facility based provider porting

step 1 WPR

step 2 WPRC

step 3 Notification step 3 Notification

step 4a SV Create

NLSP OLSP

OLSP NLSP

NNSP ONSP

NNSP NPAC

Reseller/Facility based provider porting

step 4b SV Match

step 5 activate download

step 6a completion

step 6b completion

ONSP NPAC

NNSP NPAC

NNSP NLSP

ONSP OLSP

WNP Industry Test Plan

CTIA Number Advisory Working Group Intercarrier test plan (Version 1.0)– Section 1 - Scope/Purpose, Assumptions

vertical services not included, only tested as agreed between providers

“black box” testing approach only concerned with LNP compliance after porting business as usual, no degradation to system no vendors mentioned in test plan

WNP Industry Test Plan

Impacts to system by LNP Porting Order Exchange Service Provisioning Exception Processing – Order Cancellation Disconnected TN Snapback Call Flows 911 Record Changes Operator Services Inter-service provider billing

WNP Industry test plan

Section 2 - Network configuration requirements/consideration

STP, SCP, SSP, SOA/LSMS requirements

Section 3 - Test Planning– Test coordinator, manager roles/resp– Documenting results– Test matrix (Appx. A)

WNP Industry test plan

Section 4 - Test cases– 4.0 Provisioning cases (9 tests)– 4.1 Wireless/Wireless test cases (36 tests)– 4.2 Wireless/Wireline test cases (16 tests)– 4.3 Wireline/Wireless test cases (16 tests)– 4.4 Enhanced services (4 tests)– TOTAL = 81 possible tests– Description, procedure, results for each case

WNP Industry test plan

Appendices:– Appendix A Test matrix– Appendix B Support drawings– Appendix C Entry checklist– Appendix D Exit checklist– Appendix E Sample forms – Appendix F Test successful criteria– Appendix G Related documents– Appendix H Glossary of terms

Test coordination

MSA # Test coordinators from each SP will schedule

inter-carrier testing dates from this info– Company Date ready for testing– Company A (11/15/01)– Company B (12/12/01)– Company C (10/01/01)

Future Meetings

1 year until testing should be complete– June 2001 to May 2002– propose 12 monthly face to face meetings the week before WNPO

(2 day meetings)– 12 monthly conference calls (1/2 day meetings)– other ad-hoc meetings can be scheduled as needed

Next Meeting Dates Face to Face (2001) Tues & Wed week before

WNPO– June 5,6 Arlington, VA (Telecorp)– July 5 (no face-to-face, conf call)– Aug 7,8 Denver, CO (Qwest

Wireless*)– Sep 4,5 Seattle, WA (Voicestream

or Triton PCS*)– Oct 2,3 Dallas,TX (Cingular)– Nov 6,7 Atlanta, GA (Cingular)– Dec 4,5 Sprint PCS or– Telcordia*

WNPO

– June 11-12 Kansas City, MO– July 9-10 Ottawa– Aug 13-14 Seattle, WA– Sept 10-11 Baltimore, MD– Oct 8-9 San Antonio, TX– Nov 12-13 New Orleans, LA– Dec 10-11 Phoenix, AZ

Next Meeting Dates

Conf Calls (2 weeks after face-to-face)– TIME: 12 PM - 4 PM (Eastern)– May 24, 2001– June 21, 2001– July 5, 2001 (due to holiday)– July 19, 2001– August 23, 2001– September 20, 2001– October 18, 2001– November 29, 2001– December - cancelled