FediTest session at FediForum

FediForum is an unconference “for the people who move the Fediverse forward”. It took place for the fourth time September 12-14, 2024, online. (Disclaimer: I’m an organizer.)

Naturally, I ran a session on FediTest there. We had a number of Fediverse developers there, including Ryan Barrett and Jesse Karmani. (There were others but following FediForum conventions, I don’t want to publish their names as they didn’t add their names to the public attendee list of the session.)

I used a few slides from my most recent deck and gave a brief demo – although it reported a few more errors than it should have because I had been out with the flu the previous week and didn’t manage to get it fixed beforehand.

But the demo was interesting anyway:

• Run a single command: feditest run --testplan <some-file.json>, which:

• automatically spun up two instances of Mastodon;

• with auto-provisioned, local hostnames;

• with a local certificate authority (CA) and TLS certs from that local CA;

• obtained one account each on each Mastodon instance;

• used the Mastodon API to have the second Mastodon account follow the first;

• used the Mastodon API to have the first Mastodon account post something;

• and test that the second account received that post in their inbox.

Progress!