About DTT

The Goal

The goal of DTT is to accelerate the path to interoperability by making testing easier, faster, and cheaper. To make testing easier, it is important to reduce or remove the complexity that is often faced by product teams who are figuring out how to go about testing, what tools are available to them, and how such tools actually work. To make testing faster, shortening the learning curve, reducing the preparation time, and optimizing for automation are key considerations. To make testing cheaper, there needs to be an aligned belief that DTT is best built by the community, for the community, while ensuring that a methodology exists for continuously improving the user experience, as well as growing the available capabilities and a suite of supporting tools over time, in a consolidated manner.

Digital Trust Testbench is designed to deliver robust, consistent, repeatable, and automated testing between different components of the digital trust ecosystem. It makes it possible to define (at launch) and protect (over time) demonstrably good interoperability among various entities e.g. those issuing credentials, storing them, and verifying them.

To provide an example, a wallet provider looking to ensure interoperability may leverage DTT to test whether the wallet can successfully accept a given credential from one or more issuers, and whether it can present a given credential to one or more verifiers for successful verification. Ideally, the interaction being tested between two entities takes place directly between the respective user interfaces. However, this is not always feasible, and instead, interactions between underlying technical interfaces may be used as proxies for testing. Simulation of different test configurations may be required to facilitate testing when a wide variety of scenarios is necessary.