[DMP 2024]: Mojaloop participation tools enhancement #3861

[elnyry-sam-k]

Ticket Contents

Description

[Provide a brief description of the feature, including why it is needed and what it will accomplish.] There is a need to enhance, support and maintain the Mojaloop participation tools periodically. Usual maintenance and evolution to support new needs doesn’t take priority as commercial teams or teams with grants and projects focus on specific features only as required by business needs.

The Mojaloop participation tool set that includes tools such as the Mojaloop Testing Toolkit, the “Core test harness”, Miniloop, IaC need some maintenance to keep them up-to-date and enhancements to make them user friendly (to devs, qa, infra members) to use and for demonstrations for business and product users.

Goals & Mid-Point Milestone

Goals

• [x] Run participation tools successfully locally and understand operation (Mojaloop Testing Toolkit (TTK), Core test Harness (CTH), Payment manager, Miniloop (and if possible IaC later on separately)
• [ ] Update services to latest dependencies and address security issues, vulnerabilities and any fixes based on initial observation
• [ ] Update Core test harness to create basic profiles to include only absolutely required steps and scripts
• [ ] Update miniloop to work with latest Mojaloop releases [by mid-point]
• [ ] Enhance demonstrations for focus use-cases and explore hosting one or more of the participation tools on cloud with separate UI if necessary
• [ ] Include finance portal on the participation tools (if within resource limits to deploy on dev machines)

Setup/Installation

Details in implementation details

Expected Outcome

• [ ] Mojaloop TTK is updated to use latest dependencies and any unused deps removed and demos enhanced where possible
• [ ] Mojaloop CTH profiles created for basic set of operations and provide support for all use cases supported by Mojaloop
• [ ] Miniloop is updated to support latest Mojaloop release (v16) and include finance portal if possible
• [ ] Create a sandbox on cloud using one of the participation tools for demonstrating Mojaloop use cases
• [ ] Create a demo setup using CTH, Payment managers separately to simulate close to real scenarios

Acceptance Criteria

No response

Implementation Details

• ML TTK: https://github.com/mojaloop/ml-testing-toolkit/tree/main
• ML CTH: https://github.com/mojaloop/ml-core-test-harness
• ML IaC: https://github.com/mojaloop/iac-modules and https://github.com/mojaloop/iacv2-docs
• ML Miniloop: https://github.com/mojaloop/mini-loop

Mockups/Wireframes

No response

Product Name

Mojaloop participation tools enhancement

Organisation Name

Mojaloop

Domain

Financial Inclusion

Tech Skills Needed

CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, JavaScript, Microservices, Node.js, React

Mentor(s)

Sam Kummary, James Bush, Paul Makin and other SMEs, community contributors as necessary

Category

Accessibility, Beginner Friendly, CI/CD, Delpoyment, Testing

[elnyry-sam-k]

Weekly Goals ( updated 19th June 2024)

Week 1

• [x] 1. Run the Core test Harness (CTH), on-premise-deploy, and Testing Toolkit locally and understand basics
• [x] 2. In CTH, Optimize the basic P2P test by avoiding setup of FSPs that are not required for the P2P tests; remove the - [] 1. unnecessary profiles path: Link 1 Link 2
• [ ] 3. Review other optimizations once the above is done.
• [ ] 4. Bonus: Review adding finance portal to CTH - feasibility check

Week 2

• [ ] 1. Start working on the Miniloop Project (once target of week 1 are achieved)
• [ ] 2. Run miniloop locally (locally may also mean on an AWS instance)
• [ ] 3. Update packages and ensure tests pass

Week 3

• [ ] 1. Update Mojaloop services on miniloop version - to use latest releases
• [ ] 2. Review adding finance portal to miniloop
• [ ] 3. Once miniloop targets are achieved, reassess if we can move to working on IaC on the project (once target of week 2 are achieved)

docker-compose.yml mojaloop/ml-core-test-harnes