[UA-EAI] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Ext] EAI tests and testing

[John R. Levine]

> FWIW, in our most recent call we had already concluded that much/most of the testing would be manual, at least initially.

For MUAs and webmail, I don't see any alternative to manual testing, since 
it's all about bits of the user interface which are not standardized at 
all.

On the other hand, for tests of MTA, MSA, and MDA, those are about how 
well they implement the SMTP, submission, IMAP, and POP protocols.  In my 
tests those were entirely automated except for a few cases where the 
system I was testing was so broken that it wasn't worth adding code to the 
test scripts to work around it.


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> It appears that Arnt Gulbrandsen via UA-EAI <arnt.gulbrandsen at icann.org> said:
>> I've looked at this, and while the code's correct and its utility is more than zero, I don't think it covers a noticeable part of the questions in the self-certification.
>
> The code does most of the mail tests in UASG021A other than the MUA tests which I couldn't figure out how to automate.
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> If you want to see if that your MTA, MSA, or MDA is EAI compatible, and your server is reaasoably close to working, they should be able to do the job.
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> A lot of packages that claimed to support EAI don't very well and particularly for IMAP servers there is considierable code to work around server bugs so it can recover from server failures and do more of the tests.
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> R's,
> John
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