[Openid-specs-ab] Tests

[Richer, Justin P.]

+1

It makes a lot of sense to separate the "It doesn't crash" from the "it actually works" tests.

 -- Justin

On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:07 PM, John Bradley <ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com> wrote:

> Some tests like the one for display=popup OP-F02 show pass as long as the implementation doesn't throw an error on seeing the parameter in the request.
> 
> I think that not trowing an error needs to be differentiated from supporting the feature.
> 
> There is a general requirement to ignore unknown parameters,  so showing a pass may confuse people looking at the tests, who would take that as indication of something supporting the display extension.
> 
> If the functionality is optional and we are not really testing for it then it might be better to have one test that the AS ignores unknown parameters, and not report optional functionality at all.
> 
> John B.
> 
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