• Two New Features for Clearer Testing

     By Guus der Kinderen

    Posted on September 26, 2025

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    We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing both stricter and easier to set up! [Read More]

  • Lots More Options

     By Dan Caseley

    Posted on September 14, 2025

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    Since the last update, we’ve added a lot more options on how to run your tests. We’ve added a slew of new CI systems, this time focussing on freedom-respecting, open source CI systems for your open source projects. [Read More]

  • MOAR TESTS!

     By Guus der Kinderen

    Posted on July 30, 2025

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    Ever heard of XMPP Interop Testing? It’s this cool project that helps make sure different XMPP servers can all work together smoothly. Our XMPP Interop Testing project provides a suite of automated tests that can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines to verify the compliance and interoperability of XMPP server implementations.... [Read More]

  • Enabling Tests

     By Guus der Kinderen

    Posted on April 3, 2025

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    Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain... [Read More]

  • Incoming: Improvements!

     By Guus der Kinderen

    Posted on October 10, 2024

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    A new boost in the project’s budget will allow us to approximately double the test coverage of our project (and add a couple of nice features)! [Read More]

  • Containers!

     By Dan Caseley

    Posted on September 4, 2024

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    I know it’s not universal, but I love working with containers. Once you’ve got your container runtime, it doesn’t matter what you’re running, whether it’s a web app, a database, a command line tool, or something else entirely. It doesn’t matter whether it was written in Rust or Erlang or... [Read More]

  • Progress Report

     By Guus der Kinderen

    Posted on June 12, 2024

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    We’ve been quiet for a while, but we’ve been busy! Over the last few months, things have progressed nicely. Let me catch you up! [Read More]

  • How we expect to use Compliance Tests

     By Dan Caseley

    Posted on March 3, 2024

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    One of XMPP’s largest challenges (and indeed of all open standards) is interoperability. We want to enable anyone to use the standards on any platform they like, written in the programming language they prefer, focussing design and utility toward any group, from enterprise to egg-cup enthusiasts. [Read More]

  • Project Kick-off

     By Dan Caseley

    Posted on February 18, 2024

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    We’re Guus & Dan, and we’re proud to announce that NLNet have chosen to sponsor a project of interoperability tests for the XMPP ecosystem. [Read More]