Programmatically controlling a Sauce Connect Tunnel

I recently decided that I wanted to create and control Sauce Connect tunnels from within my own test code and could not find any examples of how this could be done.  After some research and experimentation, I was successful and so I wanted to document the method that I am using in case anyone else finds a need to do the same.  Note that my test framework is written in Java and the method that I outline should work with any JVM language.  Modifying this to work with another setup is left as an exercise to the reader. Continue reading “Controlling Sauce Connect”