SAML Testing Procedures

Oracle Utilities follows thorough testing procedures for SSO and SLO implementations. Oracle Utilities has separate instances of the Energy Efficiency Web Portal specifically for integration testing. This is known as our staging environment.

Before going live with a utility, the Oracle Utilities staging infrastructure is configured to accept SSO assertions from the corresponding utility testing environment. The client application and federation server must similarly be configured to send SSO assertions to the Oracle Utilities federation server.

To verify a successful connection and assist with troubleshooting, Oracle Utilities needs the ability to log in to the utility’s staging environment. This may require VPN access if the utility stage environment is located behind a firewall. Oracle Utilities also requires at least one valid login on the utility’s stage environment.

After testing is complete, the configurations are migrated to the production applications for both Oracle Utilities and the utility. To verify these connections, Oracle Utilities also needs a test account on production.

The stage and production test accounts should be available for the life of the program for continuous verification of end-to-end SSO and SLO functionality.