Bug #6029
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Single TTCN3 BSC handover test fails
Added by jolly 12 months ago.
Updated 6 months ago.
Description
If I run a single handover test "BSC_Tests.TC_ho_into_this_bsc_a5_1_3" it fails most of the times.
If I run it multiple times (adding same line multiple times to BSC_Tests.cfg), subsequent tests do not fail.
This seems to happen with all other handover tests too.
My current work-around is to add the test twice to the BSC_Tests.cfg.
It tuned out that a single test fails, because running a single test will also start the BSC during that test. The BSC takes a while to start up until it is able to receive the (BSSMAP) Reset message.
Doing "f_sleep(2.0);" before calling "f_init(...);" in this test solves the problem. The Reset message is received and will be acked by the BSC.
This is sad and I wish I knew of a smart way to fix this.
Sadly there is no mechanism in TTCN3 to execute a given function once at startup of the testsuite (like a constructor), irrespective of the number of test cases which are then started later on. Every test case is 100% autonomous and all components are created from scratch...
I guess we could try to figure out why osmo-bsc needs time at start-up before it can accept the BSSMAP RESET?
The way how TITAN officially recommends to work in such situations AFAIR is to run some kind of "proxy daemon" that keeps the A interface connection (and all other external connections) alive, and talk from the test cases with that daemon. The daemon then keeps all the lower-layer protocols (like M3UA, ...) up and you really only execute the test case at the highest protocol level (BSSMAP here) without tearing down and bringing up the entire stack[s].
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