Re: TestSuite to verify WebID authentication services

Great! I always thought about writing tests in gherkin. I'd love to see 
that in action.

Regards,
Niclas

Am 05.05.2013 11:01, schrieb Angelo Veltens:
> Hi all,
>
> since I am still a little uncertain about what a WebID authentication
> service has to consider, I am looking for test cases to verify the
> correct behavior of such a service.
>
> I found the "Test Suite" wiki page [1], which seems to focus on
> verifying certificates and profile pages, but not authentication services.
>
> Are there any formalised test cases to verify the correct behaviour of a
> WebID authentication service? If not, I suggest to phrase them down,
> e.g. in the gherkin language used by cucumber [2] (examples below).
>
> Based on this I am going to write an automated test suite that can be
> run against any implementation of WebID authentication to verify it's
> correct behaviour.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Test_Suite
> [2] http://cukes.info/
>
> Example scenarios in gherkin:
>
> Feature: WebID Authentication Service
>
>    Background:
>      Given a website provides a WebID authentication at a login URL
>
>    Scenario: Client authenticates with an invalid certificate
>      Given I own a certificate C
>      And the private key of C does not belong to the public key of C
>      When I visit the login URL
>      And provide the certificate C for authentication
>      Then the service responds  ...
>
>    Scenario: Client authenticates with an expired certificate
>      Given I own an expired certificate C
>      When I visit the login URL
>      And provide the certificate C for authentication
>      Then the service responds ...
>
>    ...
>
> What do you think of it?
>
> Best regards,
> Angelo

Received on Sunday, 5 May 2013 10:53:16 UTC