The First Symposium on Test Technologies for Shanghai Wireless Advanced Network (SWAN) was held at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT) on 22^nd, 23^rd December 2009. There were approximate 30 academy and industry representatives attended this symposium, who were from Datang Mobile, China Telecom, Huawei Tech Co., Ltd., Tsing-Hua University, ZTE Corporation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Southeast University, China Science and Technology University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Agilent Technologies, Tektronix, Inc., Spirent Communications and etc.