Multiple web application and Cactus Testing

[Sushil Sureka <su...@gmail.com>]

I am pretty sure this is a very common scenario and there must be a
solution for this.

We have multiple web application, one of them single sign on and
others are individual app for different departments. To test any of
the department application, we need to first authenticate using single
sign-on and then move on do the respective work.

The question is how to achieve this. One way I can think of is to
actually call the authenticate URL by direct HTTPS request from my
test method  (apache common software or built in java library) and
then use the returned cookie, set it in the session,  invoke action
classes to test particular functionality

Otherwise the problem is that the test class I write will not find
single sign on action class since test classes are deployed along with
the department applications only.

Any better idea on how to achieve this 

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Thanks
Sushil