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Towards Agentic Test-Driven Quality Assurance for 6G Networks

Networking and Internet Architecture 2026-04-28 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

This work proposes an agentic, intent-driven end-to-end (E2E) orchestration framework that integrates intent co-creation with a Test-Driven Quality Assurance paradigm. In this framework, autonomous agents iteratively refine a user's initial intent into a confirmed, auditable specification. Furthermore, the system automatically derives validation tests from these intents before provisioning, directly mirroring the Test-Driven Development workflow in software engineering to ensure proactive Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance. The architecture is grounded in a standards-aligned knowledge representation using TM Forum (TMF) information models and catalogs. This enables deterministic graph traversal from high-level Product Offerings down to granular Service/Resource and Test specifications. We prototyped this architecture by extending OpenSlice with a message-driven, multi-agent pattern and integrating MCP-enabled (Model Context Protocol) tool access for real-time knowledge retrieval. Currently, our evaluation of the agents targets the intent co-creation phase as a baseline toward full-scale orchestration. Building on experiments with multiple open-source Large Language Model (LLM) backends integrated with the TMF-based knowledge base, we observe substantial variability in tool-use reliability and hallucination patterns, underscoring the critical importance of robust knowledge integration in agentic 6G systems.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23285,
  title  = {Towards Agentic Test-Driven Quality Assurance for 6G Networks},
  author = {Christos Tranoris and Besiana Agko and Kostis Trantzas and Irene Denazi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23285},
  year   = {2026}
}

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8 pages

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