Shibboleth Developers

[Will Norris <>]

On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Howard Gilbert wrote:

> A JUnit based IntegrationTest is now checked into /tests/ 
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.integration. It uses classes  
> in /tests/edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.runner and  
> configuration files accessed as resources from /testresources.
>
> To run it in Eclipse, change your project to add /testresources as  
> a "source" directory in the Windows-Preferences-Java-Build Path.  
> Yes there is no actual java source in this directory, but declaring  
> it to be a source causes the configuration files to be copied to  
> the generated classes where they are available as resources during  
> execution of the test.
>
> Right clicking on IntegrationTest and choosing Run as - JUnit Test  
> runs the three test cases. All tests execute the IdP, SP, and  
> Filter in sequence. One test does a POST with Attribute Push, one  
> does a POST with Attribute Query, and one does an Artifact signon.
>
> There is extensive commentary in IntegrationTest, which should  
> serve as a model and documentation of how to run the tests. There  
> is not, however, an exhaustive set of functional checks and test  
> assertions. There is, however, some effort to exercise a lot of  
> features and the debugging trace shows the correct operation of  
> some ARP and AAP processing.
>
> Although this can be used for automated testing, it also serves as  
> a good platform for debugging new features or changes. Right click  
> and choose Debug as instead of Run as to run everything under the  
> debugger.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what this tests, but is this not testing  
basically the same thing as the blackbox IdP stuff checked in last  
month? (tests/edu.i2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.(AA|SSO)Test).  That  
DOES contain a fairly exhaustive set of tests.  Just "Run As -> Junit  
Test".

More of a simple project management question, but what was the  
rationale behind /testresources as opposed to keeping everything  
together in /data ?


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Will Norris
Information Technology
The University of Memphis