Dovetail Beta

Beta testing:

• Dovetail, together with C&C committee, plans to conduct CVP Beta testing to get direct feedback from
  • Vendors who have applicable products and intend to apply for CVP certification for these products
  • Third party labs who intend to apply to become OPNFV Preferred Verification Labs
  • Operators/end users members who are interested in utilizing CVP for qualification
• Benefits of participating in Beta
  • Be listed as the first group of products or labs that have participated in the beta program
  • Get direct access to dovetail test suite developers and c&c reviewers
• Beta process
  • Entering Beta
    • Dovetail test tool and test cases freeze (e.g. 0.7.0), no new development to the test tool or to test cases
    • A group of companies (vendors, labs or end users) volunteered to be beta trial testers, submitting feedback / bugs. # of companies should be >= 5, including vendors, labs and end users.
  • Test result review
    • Beta participants submit Beta test results for review the same way one would in an actual application
    • C&C committee organizes a CVP review group for Beta test result review. The review result will be shared with the participant who submitted the test result.
  • Bug fixes
    • During the Beta trial, testers are expected to be the primary source of bug reports. All reported bugs will be logged, reviewed and prioritized.
    • During the Beta trial no new tests or features will be merged into the Dovetail master branch.
  • Exit Beta
    • All critical bugs are fixed, all non-critical bugs are documented
    • If , for example, 0.7.x is the version when the above exit criteria is met, then we will re-label it 1.0.0, and it becomes the first release.
  • Duration
    • We expect the duration of Beta be up to 6 weeks.
• The first release is ready for launch after Beta.

Beta schedule

The beginning date of beta testing is estimated to be the end of September. Here is a rough schedule (last updated 9/8).

dovetail status 9-8.pptx

• Beta start date: 9/29/2017
• Beta end date: estimated to be 10 Nov 2017  (6 weeks)

Beta participants

Beta release information

• Beta Dovetail release 0.7.0: 
  • https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/dovetail/Running+history+for+the+dovetail+tool#Runninghistoryforthedovetailtool-CVP.0.7.0
• Known issues release note:
  •  https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/dovetail/Running+history+for+the+dovetail+tool#Dovetail_Known_Issues