Business scenarios & evaluation framework

One of the core activities of VICINITY project will be to evaluate its results against the use cases and requirements specified in D81 so as to validate the actual performance and impact of the project framework and identify any gaps and further work required The deliverable will identify the business scenarios and use cases that the project will test against based on D14 and specify the evaluation framework within which these will be tested The use cases must be capable of operating from the common VICINITY platform and use as much common software as possible to avoid unnecessary repetition of design Performance indices should be provided autonomously within each use case so that data may be recorded in real time and be remotely read by the network management system using a real time dashboard All use cases should appear on the dashboard The technical feasibility and effectiveness of each use case will be assessed via questionnaires so that individual users can provide ratings of the system performance and these will be specified here It is important that the evaluation framework allows for iterative testing and assessment of the framework so that test procedures can be changed based on actual experience and the dashboard continuously updated