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"Fediverse applications that you can run local to have easily deployable versions to test/develop against."

Provides docker containers for Mastodon for testing purposes (and eventually others). It uses a local certificate authority with automatic SSL cert provisioning.

Discussion about testability.

Quickly design and test ActivityPub objects with mock servers of popular projects like Mastodon and Pixelfed. (Not released as of September 18, 2023)

ActivityPub test suite discussions in TPAC 2023 break meeting. Highlight: Meta offering funding to support testing efforts.

W3C community group discussions and demonstration related to ActivityPub test suites.

The original ActivityPub test suite, originally hosted at activitypub.rocks hasn't been running for years and it's been difficult to find a maintainer because of the implementation programming language, Guile. Because of that situation, the test suite was rewritten in Python.

Here are some quirks about test.activitypub.rocks... from @cwebber.

Unofficial ActivityPub test suite server, which runs machine-assisted test cases against federated software. (Unmaintained)

Server-independent, full-automated test suite primary focused on ActivityPub server compliance testing.