vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing
Description
Implement data availability test plans for the Nomos project at the cluster level, focusing on protocol compatibility, internal interactions, data confidentiality, and resilience against failures.
Alignment with VAC Narratives:
- By developing and constantly updating tests for data availability, VAC QA ensures that the feature’s implementation aligns with high standards.
- This continuous testing helps identify any spec-related issues early, contributing to the RFC culture and improving spec quality.
- The effort also supports IFT’s strategic objective of scaling the project’s capacity and ensuring a reliable system for future community involvement.
Task List
Protocol and API Compatibility Tests
- fully qualified name:
vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:protocol-api-compatibility - owner: romanzac
- status: done
- start-date: 2025/04/1
- end-date: 2025/04/15
Description
Add integration tests to verify DA works well with other blockchain components.
Deliverables
Internal Interaction and Data Flow Tests
- fully qualified name:
vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:interaction-data-flow - owner: romanzac
- status: done
- start-date: 2025/04/16
- end-date: 2025/05/16
Description
Add integration tests to verify correct interaction of the internal DA components to ensure correct data flow and end-to-end processing.
Deliverables
Data Confidentiality
- fully qualified name:
vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:data-confidentiality - owner: romanzac
- status: done
- start-date: 2025/05/19
- end-date: 2025/06/6
Description
Add integration tests to verify data confidentiality, ensuring secure communications, and controlling unauthorized access.
Deliverables
Data Integrity and Dispersal Process Resilience
- fully qualified name:
vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:dispersal-resilience - owner: romanzac
- status: done
- start-date: 2025/06/9
- end-date: 2025/06/30
Description
Add integration tests to verify the robustness of internal processes against tampering or malformed inputs and maintaining the integrity of the data handling mechanisms.
Deliverables
- chore: Nomos node with mutated DA layer PR 2 -> cleanup into PR 3 is in progress
- Test/dispersal resilience PR 19
- Dispersal not prevented for a blob with tampered data Issue 1369 - open
- Error ‘blob sampling timed out’ too generic to hint about problem with RS encoding Issue 1383 - open
- TF-IDF based log parsing PR 20 - merged