Is it complicated to implement a NodeDriver?

https://feditest.org/faq/feditest/is-it-complicated-to-implement-a-node-driver/

You don’t actually need to do that. You can use one of the Node Drivers that works with any application, such as the ManualFediverseNodeDriver or the SaasFediverseNodeDriver. While it is great that they work with any application, they don’t provide much automation: instead, you will be prompted to perform a bunch of activities you’d much rather like to have automated.

Example: a test may require that your application “create” a “Note”. Without integration of your application, you will need to do that manually (which may be fine, depending on what you are trying to do).

If you want (some) automation, you can implement a suitable Node Driver gradually and focus just on automating what is most time-consuming for you. That may be deploy and undeploy or a Node, or it may be performing a certain activity (like “create” a “post”) or making an observation (like “is account @@b.example now following a@a.example).