Re: FYI: FediTest.org

> On Jan 31, 2024, at 01:44, hellekin <hellekin@cepheide.org> wrote:

> Yet, I'm confused about the sudden appearance of multiple ActivityPub testing suites. Are you all working together or is it each for himself?

That’s simply because the time for test suites has come :-) As a system matures and gets used not just by “technology enthusiasts” (to use the technology adoption terminology) but later stages, things that weren’t important in earlier phases suddenly are, and I think this is one such case.

Best I can tell, our various approaches are substantially different, and may end up serving different use cases.

The two “test suite user personas” and associated user stories we are interested in with FediTest are on one slide I showed yesterday (https://feditest.org/blog/2024-01-30-testing-tf-slides/). It does not include, for example, another persona (“end user”) mentioned on the call yesterday who wants to understand why their post didn’t propagate in the way they expected to some other application. Out of scope for us.

It would certainly great if we could manage to collaborate specifically on test identification: what needs to be tested exactly? And what is permitted and not permitted behavior in order to maximize real-world interoperability (and not just standards compliance).

Cheers,




Johannes.


Johannes Ernst

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