RE: [xdi] Proposal for XDI Test Tool

["Barnhill, William [USA]" <barnhill_william@bah.com>]

Thanks Mike, and thanks Yuri for creating this. It looks interesting, but I have four questions/points: 
1) Why an XML format? It works, but I figured you'd go with JSON. Have no problems with XML for this, just surprised.
2) It seems very Java specific, maybe it should be more language-agnostic and specify just the following:
	TestId
	ModelPreConditions, as sequence of XDI basic graph patterns (I've described these in an email a while ago, have in queue to describe them more fully. Think RDF BGP, but based on XDI XRIs and XDI graph model features)
	ModelPostConditions, ditto
	TestSequence, a sequence of XDI graph messages to execute which requires the ModelPreConditions to evaluate to true before the test, and evaluates test as passing if all of the ModelPostConditions evaluate to true after the test, false otherwise
	Script class="pass", script to execute if test fails, per <script> tag in HTML5. If test kit implemented in Java then this could be supported via BSF
	Script class="fail", ditto
	One or more Link elements for extensibility. One I can definitely see baking into the format spec is <link rel="hub hub.fail" ...> so that a community (or software agents) can be informed when tests fail.
3) It would be great if you could contribute this diagram and proposal to either the mailing list or the OASIS XDI wiki, so we don't get pinged on OASIS IP rule violations. In order to eat my own dogfood I'll take an action to write what I wrote above up a little more into a similar proposal and contribute it.

Kind regards,
 
Bill Barnhill
Booz Allen Hamilton - Belcamp,MD
1-443-924-0824| barnhill_william@bah.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: xdi@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xdi@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schwartz
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:01 AM
To: OASIS - XDI TC
Cc: yuriy@gluu.org
Subject: [xdi] Proposal for XDI Test Tool


Yuriy Zabrovarnyy has proposed a design for a test suite that would be developed as part of the OX project:

   http://ox.gluu.org/doku.php?id=oxtestool:draft

- Mike


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Michael Schwartz
Gluu
Founder / CEO
mike@gluu.org
+1 646-810-8761

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