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LINKED DATA ACCEPTANCE ¶ ↑

Acceptance test suite for the Linked Data API

Overview¶ ↑

This project contains a set of acceptance tests for the Linked Data API specification:

purl.org/linked-data/api/spec

The tests are implemented in RSpec and are intended to be run against a live deployment of the API.

The goals are to:

• Help plug any gaps in the spec

• Provide some basic tests that can be used to check the capabilities of any arbitrary deployment

• Provide some detailed tests that run against a known dataset and configuration to exercise a specific API implementation

• Provide a jumping off point for testing other deployments

The project is a work in progress so subsequent to sudden and violent changes :)

Installation¶ ↑

The tests are implemented using RSpec. You’ll need to have Ruby 1.8, Ruby Gems, and have installed the following gems:

RSpec:

• Ruby Behaviour Driven Test Framework

• rspec.info/

Rest Client

• Restful Web Client

• rdoc.info/projects/archiloque/rest-client

JSON

• Ruby JSON Implementation

• flori.github.com/json/

Siren

• Ruby JSON & JSONQuery interpreter

• github.com/jcoglan/siren

Hopefully the following should handle all of that and any dependencies:

sudo gem install rspec rest-client json siren

Running the Tests¶ ↑

The tests are organised into several sub-directories.

mountain

• test suite for mountain climbing data used in Puelia Implementation

education

• test suite for education.data.gov.uk API

To install the test config, copy the config.ttl to the relevant location in your implementation.

To run the tests do:

spec dir/name-of-spec-file.spec

To override the location of the Linked Data server, set the server environment parameter