System and method for precision drive testing of a cellular network

A method for automatically directing drive testing by field agents, each of whom is provisioned with a drive test agent configured to assess network performance and/or service and/or user experience in a geographical area, the method comprising:

• obtaining a use case for the drive test agent in response to an automated request from either an external data source or an internal data source;
• automatically retrieving one or more test scripts corresponding to the obtained use case;
• obtaining from the use case, information regarding the location of one or more network sites or one or more areas of interest to which the automated request pertains, and determining the geographical area to be drive tested;
• calculating one or more drive test routes for each drive test agent, in order to cover the determined geographical area;
• sending to one or more drive test agents, the test scripts corresponding to the obtained use case along with definition of done criteria and drive test routes, so that each corresponding field agent can conduct a drive test within said determined geographical area, the definition of done criteria including at least a statistical significance level threshold and an acceptable measurement error;
• automatically receiving real time feedback from each drive test agent regarding the status of that drive test;
• automatically sending one or more instructions to said each drive test agent in response to the real time feedback provided by that agent, said instructions comprising one or more of route updates, corrected test scripts, modified test scripts and repeated test scripts;
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• automatically receiving and uploading final drive test results upon satisfaction of the definition of done criteria by each drive test agent.