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Theme fund: NGI Zero Core
Start: 2023-06
End: 2024-01

Fediverse Test Framework

Test bench for ActivityPub implementations

The Fediverse consists of individual servers, possibly running different software, that talk to each other. One of the challenges in developing for the Fediverse is to stay interoperable with all the different deployed software. As the message format standard, ActivityStreams, is extensible through JSON-LD, judging how a message is parsed, can be a hard task.

By using ideas from automated testing, we provide an application that determines a baseline how messages are processed and rendered. The process being simply: run end to end tests and record their result. From the test results a webpage is generated that provides developers the information how a message is rendered in different applications. We aim to make the framework extensible so new applications can be included.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.