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Definitions for some of the terms we use.
Glossary
https://feditest.org/glossary/
- App
- An application that can be tested with FediTest.
- Constellation
- The set of Nodes participating in a particular Test Plan Session.
- Diagnostic Node
- A special-purpose Node that can be instrumented to behave in a particular way and provides detailed diagnostics.
- Imp
- A special Node used for WebFinger testing.
- Node
- An instance of an application that communicates with other Nodes during testing. Also an API to that Node.
- Node Driver
- An API to provision, unprovision, control and observe Nodes.
- Node-under-test
- A Node in a Constellation whose App is currently being tested
- Protocol-level Testing
- A test activity whose goal is to determine whether a Node implements a protocol correctly.
- Report
- The results of executing a Test Plan.
- SaaS
- A term we use to refer to Nodes that are already running at well-known hostnames.
- System-level Testing
- A test activity whose goal is to determine whether a constellation of Nodes deliver the expected distributed functionality.
- Test Plan
- A sequence of tests in a Test Plan Session Template, run once each for one or more Constellations.
- Test Plan Session Template
- A sequence of tests to run without specifying the Constellation.
- Test Run
- The execution of a particular Test Plan.
- UBOS Gears
- Software to manage self-hosted applications.