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Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub

As part of his NLnet-funded work on the ActivityBot framework, Terence Eden describes the problems he has hit writing unit tests for ActivityPub: validating usernames and text, validating messages, verifying HTTP signatures, and testing communication with other servers. He is publishing his tests and a collection of sample messages and signatures for other projects.

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