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Akraino promotes the validation of blueprints using the Akraino BluVal software which provides a "layers" approach to testing the various components of a system. Some examples of layers are "hardware", "operating system", "OpenStack", "Kubernetes". Additional layers can be added, so a "RAN" or "RIC" layer would be a natural extension. In this proposal, a role of O-RAN would be to provide the specifications against which a RAN or RIC layer would be validated. The Akraino REC blueprint would (and any future blueprints that implement RAN components) will incorporate this testing into the CI/CD, but other non-Akraino implementations of O-RAN would be free to choose whether or not to make use of BluVal for validation testing.
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