Development Test Environment

[Tom Scavo]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Michael Dahlberg <olgamirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently received a request from our developers.  They are working on a
> site that will be behind a Shibboleth SP and they are doing a lot of the
> development on their local systems.  They would like to setup a Shibboleth
> SP install on each of their development machines and then proceed to use our
> campus production Shibboleth IdP for authentication and authorization to
> their local test site.

That's a very reasonable request.

> While I don't mind including the ~10 new sets of metadata into our shib IdP
> installation, I can't help but think there is a better way of giving them a
> realistic view of the site that they are developing with regards to the
> authentication and authorization process.

Two thoughts come to mind:

1) Assuming you belong to a federation (and assuming the federation
accepts test SP metadata), just have them register their SP metadata.
(an obvious solution, I know :)
2) Use REEP https://reep.refeds.org/

Hope this helps,

Tom