Setting up Your Environment and Testing in Pre-Qual setting-up-your-environment-and-testing-in-prequal

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The purpose of this tech note is to help our partners set up their environment and start testing a new build deployed on the Adobe pre-qualification environment.

Since there are two build flavors: production and staging, in this document we will focus on the production setup with the mention that all steps are the same for staging, only the URLs are different.

Steps 1 and 2 are setting up the test environment on one of the testing machines, step 3 is a verification of the basic flow and steps 4 & 5 are presenting some testing guidelines.

IMPORTANT
It is very important to execute steps 1 and 2 each time you want to change your testing environment (switching from staging to production profile or the other way around)

STEP 1. Resolving Pass domain to an IP resolving-pass-domain-to-an-ip

  • To find a load balancer IP which can be used for spoofing, run the following command:

  • On Windows

    code language-cmd
    C:\>nslookup sp-prequal.auth.adobe.com
    ...
    Addresses:  52.13.71.11
                54.184.208.150
    

Choose any IP from **addresses** section (e.g. `52.13.71.11)

  • On Linux/Mac
    $ dig sp-prequal.auth.adobe.com

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    ...
    ............ 60 IN A      52.13.71.11
    ............ 60 IN A      54.184.208.150

Choose any IP from **A records (**e.g `52.13.71.11)

NOTE
Domains excluded from answer as they are not relevant and could differ from user to user.
IMPORTANT
These IP addresses may change in the future and they might not be the same for users in different geographical regions.

STEP 2. Spoofing the pre-qualification environment to be production spoofing-the-prequalification-environment

  • Edit the c:\windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file (in Windows) or /etc/hosts file (on Macintosh/Linux/Android) and add the following:

  • Spoof production profile

    • 52.13.71.11 entitlement.auth.adobe.com sp.auth.adobe.com api.auth.adobe.com

Spoofing on Android: In order to spoof on Android, you have to use an Android emulator.

  • Once the spoofing is in place, you can simply use the regular URLs for the production and staging profiles: (that is, http://sp.auth-staging.adobe.com and http://entitlement.auth-staging.adobe.com and you will actually hit the pre-qualification environment/ production of the* new build.

STEP 3. Verify you are pointing to the right environment Verify-you-are-pointing-to-the-right-environment

This is an easy step:

STEP 4. Perform a simple authentication/authorization flow using the programmer’s website peform-a-simple-auth-flow

  • This step requires the programmer’s website address and some valid MVPD credentials (a user that it is authenticated and authorized).

STEP 5. Perform scenario testing using the programmer’s websites perform-scenario-testing-using-programmer-website

  • After completing the environment setup and ensuring that the basic authentication-authorization flow is working you can proceed with the testing of more complex scenarios.

STEP 6. Perform testing using the API test site perform-testing-using-api-testing-site

  • If you want to go deeper into testing Adobe Pass Authentication, we recommend you use the API test site.

You can find more details on API test site at How to test Authentication and Authorization flows using Adobe’s API test site.

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