January 2008 Entries
If you found this, then you know I'm talking about Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) / Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM). A reverse join is a concept that attempts to solve problems arising from joining existing connector space objects to newly created metaverse objects. Microsoft has a great white paper on the subject. I discovered that I might care about this subject because I couldn't get a few unit tests to pass. I had unit tests covering two inactivation scenarios. The tests followed...
Build automated unit tests for your identity management solutions just like you would a normal development project. Trust me. Here's why: Test Driven Design: design your test first. do your craft until the test passes. Comfort and assurance: you know because you've run them 1001 times. others can run them too. Free documentation: requirement and business rules can be inferred from the test cases. Fix problems instead of looking for them: you will spend almost no time looking for defects Yes, it requires...