Shib IdP Integration Testing w/ InCommon Strategy Advice

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> We are looking to replace our IdPv2 with IdPv3.  Now that we have many
>> services depending on our Shibboleth IdP for authentication, we'd like to
>> stand up an integration testing environment with IdPv3 before deploying it
>> to production.  We do have a couple local service providers that we exchange
>> metadata with directly that we can test, but I was wondering how others
>> perform integration testing when standing up an IdP that will be part of a
>> federation like InCommon.
>
> By eliminating the back channel as part of my rollout and doing testing with /etc/hosts changes using my production certificates and keys in the upgraded environment.

Yes, as documented in the Internet2 Spaces wiki:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/GYtHBQ

Tom