Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 1: Protocol conformance specification
The present document specifies the protocol conformance testing for the 3rd Generation E-UTRAN User Equipment (UE).
This is the first part of a multi-part test specification. The following information can be found in this part:
-	the overall test structure;
-	the test configurations;
-	the conformance requirement and reference to the core specifications;
-	the test purposes; and
-	a brief description of the test procedure, the specific test requirements and short message exchange table.
The following information relevant to testing could be found in accompanying specifications:
-	the default setting of the test parameters [18];
-	the applicability of each test case [19].
A detailed description of the expected sequence of messages could be found in the 3rd part of this test specification.
The Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) pro-forma could be found in the 2nd part of the present document.
The present document is valid for UE implemented according to 3GPP releases starting from Release 8 up to the Release indicated on the cover page of the present document.