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The intent of this survey is to collect information from a variety of institutions within higher education higher ed institutions about their current strategies for dealing with test accounts/identities, and what gap(s) they see between the tools they currently have at their disposal and what would meet their needs. Security is becoming more and more of an issue in how we test our applications and systems. The aim of our survey is to collect the current state of affairs and also the good ideas of our colleagues, and then share the results of the survey and perhaps spark some discussion about various testing strategies, and determine if there is a way in which MACE-DIR could help support these strategies.
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1. Identity management departments at Higher Ed institutions have many different ways to provide testing accounts and identities for their application developers. These range from "just test in production" to more complex strategies. Can you please describe how your institution approaches this problem? (Radio buttonscheck boxes)
- Our application developers test with our production identity environment and we don't have a separate test identity environment.
- We have a test environment that is a complete copy of our production identities.
- We have a test environment that consists only of randomly generated identities and does not contain any real identity information.We have some combination of the above two examples. (please describe)
- Other (comment box)
2. If you have a separate test identity environment, are all developers on campus allowed to use it or is it limited to the developers in your central IT department?
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6. At least one institution has created a "test" attribute in their production directory which is used to indicate that an entry is not a real identity. Do you think it would be useful to have an attribute like that available as part of the eduperson schema?
- Yes, we would use something like that.
- No, we probably wouldn't be interested.
- Comments
7. Any other comments, ideas or issues you would like to see discussed with respect to identity management test environmentsentities?
Thank you for participating!