Adafruit_CircuitPython_MiniMQTT

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Similar to work done within requests (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Requests/tree/master/tests), this library should have a test suite which tests the MQTT protocol

Here's one idea for testing: it might be worthwhile to use a good MQTT server implementation (such as Mosquitto). For a functional PUBLISH test it might look like this:

1. start the server
2. distinct client implementation (such as Paho or Mosquitto) subscribes to a topic
3. MiniMQTT publishes a message to the topic
4. the client from step 2 and/or the server will verify that the message arrived

Another idea which I started to implement in PR #187 is to fake the state and produce/capture socket data and verify it against the data sent by known good MQTT client implementation. This is based on the "Mocket" idea from adafruit_requests and a set of private tests I've written recently for custom almost-MQTT server implementation (these tests are used for evaluation of a final assignment for Unix system programming class at Charles university in Prague to complement public set of tests). This will provide protocol level testing.