Entering into the world of SDN..!!

Hello Everyone!

My internship officially began this week. I'm really excited to work with the OpenDaylight community. For the next few weeks, I'm planning to become more familiar with the various tools and applications that will be used in this project.

Firstly, I have gone through the wikipages present on how to install and setup OpenDaylight on the VMs. I had an initial discussion with the mentor regarding the project workflow and timeline. I was informed to work on the stable helium version of the OpenDaylight controller which can be downloaded from here. 

Due to limited resources on my system, I have already requested for access to the VMs to work on this project and had to wait for them to get started and work on installing the ODL controller and setting up the development environment.

Meanwhile, I cloned the integration repository and started looking into the test suites, written using Robot code. I have installed RIDE i.e. Robot Framework Test Data Editor on my system and started playing around with it. Also, I have started looking into the syntax for writing robot code.

Cheers,
Nitika

Glad for being selected for ODL Summer 2015 Intern Program

Hello Everyone !

My name is Nitika, currently pursuing bachelor's in Computer Engineering from India. Being an enthusiast Open Source Software developer and having keen interest in SDN and Networking, I had applied for the OpenDaylight Summer 2015 Intern Program. My happiness knew no bound on the much awaited announcement of OpenDaylight Summer 2015 Intern Program results and I was elated to see my name being selected. 

I'm glad to inform you all that I’ll be a part of the OpenDaylight community and will be working on the project Longevity test for OpenDaylight under the guidance of mentors, JamO Luhrsen and Luis Gomez. 

The goal of this project is to create a single automation test suite that should be flexible enough to work in different environments. As today almost all of the ODL tests run in Continuous Integration environment, and do not take more than around ~20 minutes of duration to pass, there is a requirement of a longevity test that should be able to run for few hours or days to measure the performance and stability of the controller. The longevity test should be able to exercise the OpenDaylight and while exercising, the user should be able to perform periodic validations.

Looking forward to a great period of coding and fun…!!

Stay tuned for more updates...!!!