Smoke testing is the verification of functionality in a live system, be that development, test or production. Many of us are familiar with deploying an application, and clicking around to be sure nothing is obviously broken. Is the application running? Am I connecting to the database correctly? But there are many more holes that form as an application grows, and integration testing becomes critical to catching them.
Tag: security
LDAP Authentication with Dropwizard
Authentication for your application may be crucial to its operation. Dropwizard provides a pretty clear description of different capabilities, but I thought I’d give a simple step-by-step implementation path. 1. Dependencies The good folks at yammer have provided this open source authenticator for Dropwizard specifically for LDAP. Add this to your pom: Please note, I’m […]
BasicAuthentication with AngularJS and DropWizard
DropWizard is an amazing tool for quickly creating deployable web applications. AngularJS is “HTML enhanced for web apps!” Endeavoring to put them together is pretty easy, but I recently ran into one more complex piece of functionality — user authentication. DropWizard ships with authentication options, the first of which I’ll describe implementing, Basic Authentication. Put […]
Enabling Password-less SSH
In setting up a local Hadoop stack, you’ll need to enable SSH access to your machine from your machine. This is also useful for other systems, so a good thing to know in general. The following instructions will guide you through setting it up on a Linux box, but can also be applied to Mac […]
Integrating Spring Security pt 1
Spring Security Coverage In this first part, I’m going to cover integrating Spring Security into a web application to authenticate users stored in a MySQL database. Introduction I’ve developed a project named Passport with which I plan to utilize in any project requiring users. Rather than constantly having to re-write the storage and access faculties, […]