Shibboleth Developers

[Will Norris <>]

On Aug 22, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Howard Gilbert wrote:
> JUnit testing of the Shibboleth SP can be difficult because of  
> several things:
>
> <snip>


When I started working with Walter, one of the first projects he had  
me do was to create a mechanism to do blackbox unit testing on the  
IdP code.  After looking at Cactus and Mock Objects, I ended up going  
with an Embedded Tomcat instance with a custom protocol handler.   
This custom handler bypasses sockets altogether and instead  
publicizes the process() method so that fabricated HTTP requests can  
be injected directly into the servlet for processing.  It was working  
great in 1.2.1, but I didn't have time to verify it against 1.3 so it  
was never committed to CVS.  Since this type of blackbox testing is  
obviously being done on both the IdP and SP side, perhaps we should  
attempt to standardize our methods some way.  thoughts?

-will


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Will Norris
Information Technology
The University of Memphis

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