ETSI GS CIM 014 V1.1.1 (2021-04)

Context Information Management (CIM); NGSI-LD Test Suite

DGS/CIM-0014v111

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Technical Committee: CIM - cross-cutting Context Information Management
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 21-Apr-2021
• Completion Date: 13-Apr-2021

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ETSI GS CIM 014 V1.1.1 (2021-04)






GROUP SPECIFICATION
Context Information Management (CIM);
NGSI-LD Test Suite
Disclaimer
The present document has been produced and approved by the cross-cutting Context Information Management (CIM) ETSI
Industry Specification Group (ISG) and represents the views of those members who participated in this ISG.
It does not necessarily represent the views of the entire ETSI membership.

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Reference
DGS/CIM-0014v111
Keywords
API, IoT, testing

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
Modal verbs terminology . 4
Executive summary . 4
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
2.1 Normative references . 6
2.2 Informative references . 6
3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations . 6
3.1 Terms . 6
3.2 Symbols . 7
3.3 Abbreviations . 7
4 Abstract Test Method (ATM) . 7
4.1 Test Architecture . 7
4.2 Test source code structure . 8
4.2.1 Folder Structures . 8
4.2.2 Data folder . 8
4.2.3 TP folder . 8
4.2.4 Resources folder . 8
4.3 Test interfaces . 9
4.4 Test framework components . 9
4.5 Test strategy . 9
5 Untestable Test Purposes. 10
Annex A (informative): Robot library modules . 11
A.1 Robot code repository . 11
Annex B (informative): Bibliography . 12
Annex C (informative): Change History . 13
History . 14


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Intellectual Property Rights
Essential patents
IPRs essential or potentially essential to normative deliverables may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (https://ipr.etsi.org/).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
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Foreword
This Group Specification (GS) has been produced by ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) cross-cutting Context
Information Management (CIM).
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
provisions).
"must" and "must not" are NOT allowed in ETSI deliverables except when used in direct citation.
Executive summary
The present document is providing a detailed description of the implementation of the NGSI-LD test suite. It describes
the architecture of the test suite, then goes into the details of the source code structure, the tests interfaces and the tests
libraries.
Introduction
The ISG CIM group has defined an API for exchange of information contextualised in time, space and relation to other
information using a property graph model with the intent that the associated protocol (called NGSI-LD) becomes the
"glue" between all kinds of applications and databases associated with services for Smart Cities, Smart Agriculture,
Smart Manufacturing, etc.
To be successful, the NGSI-LD API specification needs to be well understood and well implemented. The community
of users will not be solely highly professional engineers employed by big companies but will include many small teams
and SMEs and even hobbyists. Therefore, it is essential that the developers have access to not only the standard but also
a test specification and a testing environment to check that their work is (and remains) conformant to the ETSI
NGSI-LD specification.
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The developers will usually write integration tests to validate the behaviour of their NGSI-LD implementation, but it is
important to assert compliance to the specification based on a test suite agreed by the group creating the API
specification, i.e. ETSI ISG CIM. Therefore, it is very important to create a set of ETSI-approved test cases.
What is more, the existence of such a test suite will likely help to increase the adoption of the NGSI-LD specification
by giving developers a ready to use and complete set of sample requests.
The present document describes the general architecture of the test suite, the overall organisation of the source code, the
tests interfaces, the tests framework components, then the tests strategies. It concludes with a list of identified untestable
Tests Purposes.

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1 Scope
The present document defines the organization or grouping of test cases based on the functionality to be tested (e.g
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