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An online book describing validation of RDF data. Given the JSON-LD view of ActivityPub/AS2 is an RDF serialization, these tools and techniques apply there as well. It also gives a good overview of the RDF data model and related benefits and challenges.

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

A Gherkin-like test DSL that is not designed to be part of a BDD process and doesn't require step definitions to be written in many cases. This might be useful for ActivityPub server testing.

From the creator of Cucumber/Gherkin: "The biggest problem with Cucumber is that most people trying it out don't understand what it is. Cucumber is not a tool for testing software. It is a tool for testing people's understanding of how software (yet to be written) should behave."

Find out what kinds of automated tests you should implement for your application and learn by examples what these tests could look like.

This blog article describes a way to categorize tests based on their behavior (used at Google c. 2010). Similar discussions have been happening related to the ActivityPub test suite topic.

Discussion about testability.

A small ActivityPub debugging server on Glitch

A mock ActivityPub server to use in SoftwareTesting code

A set of tools to debug ActivityPub requests. You can inspect requests, see the flow in real time, run arbitrary requests with HTTP signature handled for you.