ROLE CompliAnce Service on-line Testing. (role)CAST supports the on-line testing of access policies of SOAP services when the role within the choreography are
expressed by means of SAML assertions.
The API that (role)CAST provides can be used to program tester robots with sequences of invocations foreseen during the test planning.
Service authentication/authorization/identification is essential in many interesting service interactions. Indeed in such cases without the possibility of mocking identities the tester will not be able to make any invocations to functionality for which specific roles are required.
The (role)CAST API was designed to be modular and flexible, so that testers can reuse it as support to authenticating service interactions on various kinds of tests (e.g. functional and non-functional testing).