Enable cross-vendor tests for unknown RMW implementations #429
Description
Feature request
Feature description
Some private or yet-to-be released RMW implementations may intend to interoperate with other RMW implementations. For example, DDS based implementations probably want to communicate with the other DDS implemenations. This is a ticket to enable them to use tests in this repo to determine whether that actually works.
See discussion on #428
Implementation considerations
One option is to by default create tests for all RMW implementations and blacklist the ones which are known not to work. This enables accessing the cross-vendor tests by building this repo in a workspace with all RMW implementations they want to test compatibility with. It has a drawback in that this repo contains more than cross-vendor tests, so someone wanting to test an rmw implementation that is not expected to communicate with other vendors, such as iceoryx, would build and run many tests that are expected to fail.
Another option might be to create a package containing tools for generating a cross-vendor tests. This separates the test suite from the build of an individual package. test_communication could generate the cross-vendor test suite for the RMW implementations we use, and other RMW implementers could use the same tools to generate tests for the combinations they expect to work.