How Do I Verify My NMOS Solution?

As the adoption of NMOS continues to increase, members of the AMWA have been busy improving and expanding the NMOS Testing Tool. This free and easy-to-use tool allows vendors, systems integrators and end users to test their NMOS solutions and ensure that they comply with the AMWA NMOS specifications such as IS-04 and IS-05. The tool can be used at any time from the initial specification of a new product or service to deployment in the field. The NMOS Testing Tool has supported Node and Registry testing for several years, but any testing of Controllers had to be carried out manually. In the last year, AMWA members collaborated to add Controller testing to the tool. This adopts a semi-automated approach with the tool instructing the Controller operator to carry out various tasks. It then automatically validates these, both by checking the messages sent out by the Controller and by confirming that the operator can see the correct information on the Controller’s interface. In this talk we will introduce the testing tool and describe these latest developments. We’ll explain how to get started with the testing tool and demonstrate some of the functionality, in particular the new Controller testing features. We will also explain how the NMOS Testing Tool has previously been used at JT-NM Tested events and how users were able to prepare themselves for future events by getting familiar with the tool at the recent AMWA workshop. The workshop additionally gave participants the opportunity to perform security scanning on their solutions with guidance from the EBU’s MCS team, on which we’ll also briefly report. We’ll finish by indicating how these tools might be developed further in the future.