[jdev] Certification of XMPP compatibility of clients, servers and other software which uses XMPP

[Stephan Maka]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > [...] In the last time I saw a lot XMPP
> > incompatible clients. Most even don't do string prepping. So you see
> > some kind of empty nicknames in multi user conferences and so on. Maybe
> > a kind of logo for XMPP compatible software and hardware would be nice
> > because it's so easy to claim that software is XMPP compatible.

As different server implementations show different behaviour, it is
useful to test them, too.

I proposed writing a test software for this year's SoC[0] but
unfortunately no student picked it.

> We've talked about that for a long time. Maybe next year we'll finally
> get serious about it -- the XMPP interop event next week is perhaps a
> first step in that direction (i.e., it may result in some more automated
> testing software).

Is there testing software already? Possibly extensible?

Stephan.

[0] http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_2006_Project_Ideas#Generic_Server_Work
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