Recommended Redfish tools for product quality assurance

The two conformance tools that every developer / QA team should run against their implementation are:

Redfish Service Validator - github.com/DMTF/Redfish-Service-Validator

This tool is focused on the JSON payload and schema conformance. Start your testing here as data/payload errors are more likely to cause interoperability issues for end users. This tool uses the Redfish Python library, so "critical" protocol issues may prevent it from running to completion. If so, swap the order of your testing.

Redfish Protocol Validator - github.com/DMTF/Redfish-Protocol-Validator

This tool is focused on the HTTP protocol conformance, checking headers, response codes and other protocol functions. While many of the issues it detects may not directly impact end users or simple scripts, they will contribute to interoperability issues with more sophisticated client software and automation tools.

Both of these tools are actively maintained by DMTF personnel. If you encounter issues with either tool. please open issues on GitHub. Note that both tools have been run on numerous implementations, so anything that crashes the tool very likely indicates an issue with the implementation (as well as something we should catch). We may ask that you attach the log file created with the "--debugging" option. Pull requests for enhancements or bug fixes are also welcome!

In addition, developers can utilize the "Use Case Checkers" to evaluate the implementation of specific functional portions of the schema/protocol. github.com/DMTF/Redfish-Usecase-Checkers

Thanks for the great question - it also reminded me that we should add some developer/debugging recommendations to the GitHub readme text as well.

Jeff