Permit CLI Launch Week | Day 3- Zero-Effort Policy Testing
Day 3: Zero-Effort Policy Testing
Validate your authorization policies with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using Permit.io’s CLI—ensuring security and reliability before deployment.
Description:
Building and maintaining secure authorization policies requires thorough testing to ensure they work as expected before deployment.
Permit.io’s CLI provides developers with an integrated way to conduct different levels of testing—unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end (E2E) tests—all directly within their development workflow.
Integrating policy testing into the development process, the CLI allows validating authorization rules across the entire lifecycle.
On this day, we explore how developers can:
Run unit tests for individual policy components – Use the CLI to test the most granular parts of your policies, ensuring they function correctly in isolation. These unit tests focus on the core logic, enabling quick validation of individual rules and conditions.
Perform integration tests – Check how your authorization policies interact with other parts of your system. Testing the integration between your policies and external services, databases, or APIs, allows you to ensure access control works smoothly within the larger system.
Execute E2E tests – Simulate real-world user interactions and business flows, validating how policies affect overall application behavior, and ensuring they provide the expected functionality when integrated with the entire product.
The CLI provides a comprehensive, multi-layered testing framework that helps developers ensure the security, stability, and performance of their authorization policies. Whether you're fine-tuning RBAC, ABAC, or custom policies, Permit.io’s CLI ensures your authorization rules are reliable and production-ready.