On 07/14/2015 08:15 PM, Stefan Seelmann wrote:
I wonder if it is possible to create an automated interoperability test suite for the LDAP API. At least for Open-Source LDAP servers (ApacheDS, OpenDJ, OpenLDAP, 389ds) is should be easy to create Docker images. There are Maven plugins [0] that start containers in pre-integration-test phase and stop it in post-integration-test phase. Runtime properties like port and credentials are then available as env variable. Currently I don't have time to try that out, so if anyone wants to give it a try do so :), otherwise I might look at it later.
We have something like this in the midPoint project. But we are not using docker images. Just good old /etc/init.d and tar. It is primitive but very efficient. It works well. However, it requires some effort to maintain it as LDAP server versions change, etc. But I think it is worth it anyway.
We are not testing LDAP API directly, but a complete stack midPoint -> ConnId -> LDAP connector -> LDAP API -> LDAP server. So I do not think that our setup would be reusable. Anyway, for anyone interested it is here: https://github.com/Evolveum/midpoint/tree/master/testing/conntest
-- Radovan Semancik Software Architect evolveum.com
