Long term plans of Confomance Toolkit

I had some questions about the long term plans of the toolkit. I downloaded it the other day to learn more about it and give it a try. What I learned, was that there doesn’t seem to be a way for me to run the toolkit such that I can make the claim that I have a conformant implementation. In other words, because it monitors interaction between the consumer/producer without providing a strict set of actions to take in order to run all of the tests, it seems very difficult to ensure that I have run all of them. Ideally, there should be a user interface which contains a single button which, when pressed, runs all tests in the kit and when it’s complete, states whether or not the implementation passed all tests. For usability purposes, it would be nice as well to be able to run tests cases on an individual basis.

Is such a mechanism in the long terms plans for the conformance toolkit? Is the intention of the toolkit to provide a way for a vendor to verify conformance or is it merely a tool that the vendor can use during their QA process to catch possible interoperability issues?

Scott

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