Automated Onboarding, Testing and Validation Framework for NetApps

This paper focuses on the development of a 5G framework used to foster the onboarding, testing and validation of new solutions closely related to the production environment. The aim is to describe the structure of the test-beds required for the full life-cycle of Netapps integration that has to allow iterative testing and validation. Moreover, a facility that employs an automated toolchain is introduced. The facility caters to the deployment of NetApps with very little human interaction through open source software automation tools. Furthermore, two NetApps from the automotive domain are introduced, i.e, Vehicle Route Optimizer and Road Users Interaction, which can be integrated using the provided experimental facility.