20 May 2026No imposed DSL. No plugin ecosystem. Extension by composition, never by inheritance.
Holy Book quote (chapter “What is Ocarina?”):
What if delegating one’s grammar to “standards” had never been a good idea?
The real gap in E2E testing is not about imposing the “best” Newspeak.
Short answer: Ocarina is extensible.Any verb and conjunction can be created, all governed by strict rules that keep the whole thing deeply consistent.
20 May 2026Operational commitment: a human must be able to read the whole framework and understand it in a few hours. No hidden magic.
Holy Book quote (chapter “What is Ocarina?”):
For teams constrained by security policies: the code is small, auditable in an afternoon. Nothing hidden. The only external dependencies live in the post-execution plugins and if one of them doesn’t fit, it can be removed without breaking anything else.
20 May 2026Synthesis of refusals scattered across the Holy Book.
| Refusal | Reason | Reference |
|---|---|---|
async/await | Selenium synchronous, Requests synchronous; readability; no point introducing an event-loop | Holy Book |
| pytest plugin | Independence, ISTQB fidelity | Ocarina README |
| Text DSL (Robot, Gherkin) | No translation layer | Holy Book |
| Reactive programming | Static scenarios, in-memory cache suffices | Holy Book |
| Tricks and hacks | “Teach the pattern, not the symptom” | CLAUDE.md ai-example |
| “Stylish” contributions | “It’s my car” | Holy Book |
| Active security tests | Functional and static only, never attacks | CLAUDE.md ai-example |
async/await#Central quote: