Interoperability Test Bed 1.30.1

The Interoperability Test Bed is a service offered by the European Commission’s DIGIT to facilitate the conformance testing of IT systems. The Test Bed is itself a software system that can be both downloaded and installed locally, but also reused through a shared online installation operated by DIGIT. It offers an intuitive web user interface and rich integration features that allow administrators to define their project’s overall testing setup as well as users to connect and run tests. In terms of the testing approach it follows, the Test Bed is typically used to exchange messages with the software systems being tested, supporting both the sending and receiving of messages, validating all steps against the target specification and according to the specific scenario’s expectations. Such scenarios can focus on technical details but can also be defined at business-level, exposing details only when needed to troubleshoot failures. Furthermore, tests can be designed to cover both normal flows but also edge cases and error scenarios that would be otherwise difficult to replicate.