I've complained plenty on here about working on the ActivityPub tests and the difficulty it's taken for me to summon the motivation. Someone was surprised to hear that I was even talking about them be interactive... shouldn't tests just run on their own?

One reason the ActivityPub tests are so complicated is we have to test three entire suites of things:

Test another server's "Server to server" support (requires writing a fake server and interfacing between them)
Test another server's "client to server" support (requires operating as a client)
Test a client... (requires operating a client->server supporting AP server) except, you can't do much to "drive" the client, you have to ask the user to do it... so, yeah, tests are interactive.

It's boring work and I'm under a deadline and I've been dreading this part of the process.

I know, complain, complain, complain. I'm doing it though.