Testbed Facilities for Multi-faceted Testing throughout the Service Development Lifecycle

This paper gives a general overview of the ITIL service lifecycle and problems addressed by experimenters in the different phases of such a process. To address these needs, the ongoing FP7-ICT project TEFIS (Testbed for Future Internet Services) is described and how it seeks to support the requirements of an experimenter by giving access to different testbed-facilities and support tools for test management and planning. Three test scenarios are explained to demonstrate the benefits of the TEFIS multi-faceted testing facility. The question for TEFIS is whether we can support and satisfy the user requirements of service experimenters via a single access point. Finally, suggestions for future extensions and enhancements of the platform are discussed to allow experimenters to design effective tests which involve different resources independent of place and across the entire service development lifecycl