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All,
These are the action items I garnered out of each of the test team meetings we
have held. Please look them over. If they are not correct or if I have misstated
any of them, please send a correction. If you have others that I have missed,
please send to me. If you have resolutions for some of these then send to me. We
will be talking about these at the January 8 & 9 meeting. Hopefully, I will send
out an agenda before end of this week.
Walt
Illinois Commerce Commission
Adhoc Test Plan Sub-Committee
Open Issues List
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ISSUE #:001
DATE OPENED: 07/16/96
DESCRIPTION: Do we need to test NPA splits as part of field test?
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
07/16/96 - New Item
08/26/96 - Walt Subora to take this to NPAC team and get input on mass
downloads, etc. for test cases.
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ISSUE #: 002
DATE OPENED: 07/16/96
DESCRIPTION: Do we need to incorporate code sharing?
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DUE DATE: ??
STATUS: Open
07/16/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:003
DATE OPENED: 07/16/96
DESCRIPTION: Need documents on web
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora and Barry Bishop, AIT and Bill Belshaw, MCI
DATE DUE: 11/15/96
STATUS: Open
07/16/96 - New Item
09/17/96 - www.cameos.com/lnp MCI s website for current test plan.
10/18/96 - Barry Bishop's web site is www.ported.com. These notes will be posted
there in Word6 format. Open question whether the draft test plan can reside
there.
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ISSUE #:004
DATE OPENED: 07/16/96
DESCRIPTION: Need input from NPAC team for section 2.
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora and Barry Bishop, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
07/16/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:005
DATE OPENED: 07/16/96
DESCRIPTION: What is process for issues identification and resolution? Could we
use the web pages for input and status?
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
07/16/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:006
DATE OPENED: 08/26/96
DESCRIPTION: Need the NPAC committee to determine the test schedule and provide
for inclusion in our test plan.
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
08/26/96 - New Item
09/17/96 - Walt has done this. A meeting is scheduled on Oct. 02, 1996 with NPAC
about testing. The schedule, assumptions and terms are attached to the Sept. 17,
1996 notes. (Attachment 2 of that output)
11/21/96 - NPAC overall schedule was presented by Walt Subora from NPAC
committee output. Still need to determine affect on our test interval. See notes
from Nov. 21 meeting.
12/11/96 - Lockheed provided an overview of a schedule, with three locations,
that brought only certified carriers and live data into the NPAC after May 05,
1997. This would indeed allow for a start in June as test data would not be
flowing into live LSMSs and SCPs. See notes from Dec. 11 meeting.
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ISSUE #:006a
DATE OPENED: 08/26/96
DESCRIPTION: Want to include the NPAC test plan as an appendix to this test
plan.
RESPONSIBILITY: Barry Bishop, Operations Team will contact Donna Navickas, NPAC
team
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
08/26/96 - New Item
08/30/96 - Walt Subora and Barry Bishop will be meeting with the NPAC team on
Sept. 10 and/or 11 to talk about testing, schedules, etc. Will bring back to
this team.
12/11/96 - Discussion of how NPAC would be incorporated.
Most NPAC test plans are currently proprietary. Since they can't be
incorporated in the public test plan, a characterization of the coverage is
necessary in the master test plan, to show that it has been covered. Sect 4.2.4
of test plan will have a matrix or summary which characterizes the coverage.
Then, at the conclusion of testing, Lockheed would have to provide documentation
of the test results.
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ISSUE #:007
DATE OPENED: 09/17/96
DESCRIPTION: Do we want to test conversion from interim portability to true LRN
portability?
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
09/17/96 - New Item. Tabled for the present as a future issue.
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ISSUE #:008
DATE OPENED: 09/17/96
DESCRIPTION: What is the definition of qualification tests for a newcomer SP
(Service Provider)?
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
09/17/96 - New Issue
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ISSUE #:009
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: AT&T will provide drafts of IXC and LSP sections under 4.5 by 10/28
to allow review time before 11/4 conference call. It will be somewhat compacted
in relation to the plan reviewed today.
RESPONSIBILITY: Mitch Fuchs and OC Jackson, AT&T
DATE DUE: 11/04/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:009a
DATE OPENED: 11/04/96
DESCRIPTION: Need coverage matrices for AT&T provided sections
RESPONSIBILITY: Mitch Fuchs and OC Jackson, AT&T
DATE DUE: 11/14/96
STATUS: Provisional Closed
11/04/96 - Mitch will produce a coverage matrix for local & intra-LATA calls.
OC. will produce a coverage matrix for inter-LATA calls. Edits from Mitch Fuchs
and OC Jackson to Bill Bellshaw by start of day on 11/14, for discussion at
11/21 meeting.
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ISSUE #:010
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: - Walt requests draft test plan contributions in Word 6.0 format on
floppy disk, direct to Bill and direct to Walt for Issue 01 of document.
RESPONSIBILITY: ALL
DATE DUE: 11/14/96
STATUS: Closed
10/18/96 - New Item
11/21/96 - Sections were sent to Walt and Bill. Will be included in December
review of document.
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ISSUE #:011
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test scripts for section 4.13 Code Gapping.
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 11/04/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:012
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test scripts for Section 4.14 Choke Networks.
RESPONSIBILITY: Barry Bishop, AIT
DATE DUE: 11/04/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:013
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test scripts for Section 4.8 Operator & Coin.
RESPONSIBILITY: OC Jackson, AT&T and Carmen Colella, AIT
DATE DUE: 12/11/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
11/21/96 - Mitch Fuchs has a section for Operator and Coin test cases. Needs to
be reviewed. Has much to do with IXC Operator Calls. Will be delivered to AIT by
Ralph Brown, AT&T. Walt will include it on www.ported.com.
11/21/96 - Carmen Colella, AIT gave a presentation on Operator test cases needed
for local Operators. He will flesh out required cases and work with Ed Hendrix,
BellSouth and Mitch Fuchs, AT&T to update this section.
12/06/96 - Carmen is assembling a matrix of orig. number, called number, billing
number for review at meeting. Bill offers to add it to the matrix section of
the test plan.
12/11/96 - Handout from Carmen Colella, AIT. Asking for tests from every
network that will use the Ameritech LIDB. Since a collect or third-party-billed
call can come from anywhere, the LIDB queries will go to and from all possible
networks. This leads to national compatibility issues.
Carmen suggested a separate committee for testing of operator services. There
was a requirements OS subgroup. They would be a logical place to start to
constitute such a committee. Barry will check with operations team to get some
names. Could include SMEs from other than the direct participants on this
committee.
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ISSUE #:014
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test scripts for Section 4.6.3 Voice Mail.
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 11/21/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:015
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: How will calls from police agencies be referred to the correct
telco.
RESPONSIBILITY: Barry Bishop, Operations team.
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Issue
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ISSUE #:016
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: Need callbacks from 911 bureaus in the test plan. Need to add a
return call to each test case.
RESPONSIBILITY: Mitch Fuchs, AT&T
DATE DUE: 12/11/96
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:017
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: Tough scenario: 911 arrangement with Ameritech, but ported number
is in a Sprint-Centel serving area. Will have to do router-to-router
(tandem-to-tandem) routing of traffic.
RESPONSIBILITY: Nancy DeRoo, AIT and Andy Chalk, Sprint-Centel.
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:018
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: Need an ANI failure test case for E911. 911 router will look up
default ESN per incoming trunk group.
RESPONSIBILITY: Nancy DeRoo, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:019
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: Need the Operator Services schedule for V.O. software and IWS
positions from Ameritech.
RESPONSIBILITY: Carmen Colella, AIT
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:020
DATE OPENED: 11/21/96
DESCRIPTION: What is the availability requirement on backup NPAC?? How soon
would it have to come on-line after a primary NPAC failure.
RESPONSIBILITY: : Walt Subora, AIT and Donna Navickas, NPAC chair
DATE DUE: 01/06/97
STATUS: Open
11/21/96 - New Item. Walt will take to the NPAC committee.
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ISSUE #:021
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need to determine test schedule for inter-company test. Operations
team needs by Dec. 01.
RESPONSIBILITY: : Walt Subora, AIT and Donna Navickas, NPAC chair
DATE DUE: 12/01/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New item.
11/21/96 - Came to preliminary consensus that testing could be done after the
NPAC finished, starting Jul. 01, 1997 and finishing by Aug. 15, 1997 with
straggler testing/fixes after that. Will give to Operations team. Need to
confirm schedule with them and NPAC committee.
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ISSUE #:022
DATE OPENED: 10/18/96
DESCRIPTION: Need to determine test schedule for inter-company test. Operations
team needs by Dec. 01.
RESPONSIBILITY: : Walt Subora, AIT and Donna Navickas, NPAC chair
DATE DUE: 12/01/96
STATUS: Open
10/18/96 - New Item
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ISSUE #:023
DATE OPENED: 11/04/96
DESCRIPTION: Test team needs to come up with a definition and job description
for inter-company test coordinator to ensure all parts of the implementation
come together, including the NPAC piece.
RESPONSIBILITY: : Walt Subora, AIT and Bill Belshaw, MCI
DATE DUE: 12/01/96
STATUS: Provisional Closed
11/04/96 - Bill suggested that Barry Bishop, Operations Chair, send an E-Mail to
Dick Dowd s, MCI, boss and ask if Dick could write the description as he
performed the job for the New York Portability trial. Barry said he would.
11/21/96 - Barry has sent the E-mail. Waiting for Dick to respond.
12/06/96 - Dick Dowd, MCI, responded with a job description and volunteered to
be the coordinator. Barry Bishop will take back to the Steering Committee for
discussion and approval. AT&T had also volunteered to be coordinator.
12/11/96 - Barry stated that the Steering Committee had agreed and accepted Dick
Dowd, MCI, as the inter-company test coordinator. The test team unanimously
agreed.
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ISSUE #:024
DATE OPENED: 12/06/96
DESCRIPTION: Test team needs to determine failure scenario testing. IITP tests
will use a lab environment to run a broad range of failure scenarios. How would
this complement our efforts.
RESPONSIBILITY: : Team
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/06/96 - Walt will put on agenda for Dec. 11 meeting.
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ISSUE #:025
DATE OPENED: 12/06/96
DESCRIPTION: LEC-to-LEC EDI interface tests are still not covered.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/06/95 - New item. Needs to have EDI interface firmed up electronically. Also
need tests for LEC to LEC interfaces when not EDI.
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ISSUE #:026
DATE OPENED: 12/06/96
DESCRIPTION: Test scripts are needed for process flows.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/06/96 - Depends on getting better descriptions of the
process flows that will be used. Will definitely test whatever the final flows
are. Operations team has these flows in Flux right now.
12/11/96 - Bill Bellshaw, MCI, added cases for operations. They are generic.
Will update when flows are firm.
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ISSUE #:027
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test scripts for Section 4.5.8 AIN interactions with LNP.
RESPONSIBILITY: Walt Subora, AIT
DATE DUE: 12/24/96
STATUS: Provisional Close
12/11/96 - New Item
12/23/96 - AIN test scripts shipped to Bill on Diskette.
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ISSUE #:028
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test cases for post dial delay tests.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/11/96 - Important to do something for post-dial delay, but this is a very
complex subject. It may be cause unnecessary confusion if the job isn't done
right. Will be discussed for issue 2.
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ISSUE #:029
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: Need test cases for LSMS section.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/11/96 - Needs to be covered in that area, too. FCC requires overall
characterization of all tests that have been done.
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ISSUE #:030
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: The SCP Subcommittee submitted a request for this group to cover
SCCP looping as part of the test plan.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: ??
STATUS: Open
12/11/96 - Discussion on how to do this and for what scenarios. See notes from
Dec. 11 meeting. Need to get input from SCP team on schemes to prevent/detect
looping and how to implement for test purposes. Walt will send out when
available.
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ISSUE #:031
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: Need each test plan writer reference the appropriate figures in
Appendix A for each test case.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: 12/24/96
STATUS: Open
12/11/96 - Due with the updates to the test scripts for issue 1.
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ISSUE #:032
DATE OPENED: 12/11/96
DESCRIPTION: Need to get a list of the NXXs and DNs for each company that will
be used for the inter-company test.
RESPONSIBILITY: All
DATE DUE: 01/07/97
STATUS: Open
12/11/96 - Need to get a list of the NXXs and DNs for each company. Send them to
Walt prior to January meeting. Minimum number of DNs per company has not been
decided. Crucially important to define clearly which NXXs and DNs will be used,
and to assure that only agreed-upon NXXs and DNs are in the setup.