Re: Experience with Online Protocol Testing

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> For SCTP we did a number of interoperability tests, which were
> face to face meetings and the people who were developing stacks
> we there. This events were always very helpful not only for improving
> the stacks but also for improving the IETF documents.
> I also developed a test tool for conformance testing based on some
> test descriptions provided by ETSI. However, it would have made sense to
> specify also some tests within the IETF. That can also help to clarify
> some protocol aspects and to focus on "common mistakes".
> Providing tests is a very good thing in my experience. Unfortunately,
> at the point we did this for SCTP, the IETF position was that testing
> isn't an objective. Maybe it is time to change that...
> 
> Best regards
> Michael


I guess the code you wrote for your online test cases was your own work and you didn't re-use some else's test framework? 
The SCTP case is also a bit simpler than the OAuth scenario since in SCTP might have only tested client-server interactions (right?)

Ciao
Hannes

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