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Test Anything Protocol and JUnit XML

Exchange Schema Software Development

TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness. It decouples the reporting of errors from the presentation of the reports....

TAP community / de facto, from their own opening paragraph

What I make of it

JUnit XML has no owning body at all — a de facto model by accident. Worth writing up as a cautionary case.

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DOAP (Description of a Project) Ontology / Vocabulary SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format) Exchange Schema
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Model Details
Steward TAP community / de facto
Layer Exchange Schema
Domain Software Development
Status live
Access Not yet established
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/5. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
66.2 Modernizing
Access Not established
Assessed 77.0% of the rubric

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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