Feature Test Spec

5.0 Project (Sea-Monkey)
Mail and News Component
Newsgroups: Open

Written by: Stacey Curtis

References:
UI Specification:
Other:
Approx. number of test cases: 67

Note that for all of the news test plans, it might be helpful to examine NNTP logs: set PRLOG=NNTP:out,sync:1,file:c:\tmp\nntplog.txt (added to the autoexec.bat on the _really_ horrible Windows, or set as an env variable in NT's control panel); on Unix (csh shell), setenv PRLOG NNTP:out,sync:1,file:/u/[user]/nntplog.txt; on the Mac, add user_pref("nntp.io.mac.logging", true ) to the prefs file.

.	Access methods (can be performed while following the test cases contained in other tables)	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Direct: Single-click (in folder pane)	.	.
2	Direct: Context menu "open" item	.	.
3	Navigate: Via a form of "next" navigation from a previous group	All forms of such navigation will be tested in the navigation test plan.	.
4	Navigate: Via a form of "next" navigation from a previous mail folder	All forms of such navigation will be tested in the navigation test plan.	.
5	URL: Via URL when group is already subscribed	.	.
6	URL: Via URL when group is not already subscribed	.	.
7	URL: Via URL when server is not yet added	.	.
8	URL: Via simple path URL when default news server does offer such a group	Simple path URL does not include server name.	.
9	URL: Via simple path URL when only a non-default news server offers such a group	Simple path URL does not include server name.	The open should not be successful (graceful failure).
10	URL: Via URL from news message	.	.
11	URL: Via URL from mail message	.	.

	Non-Secure Newsgroups	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Via access method #1	An example would be news://news/netscape.communicator.mac	.
2	Via access method #2	.	.
3	Via access method #3	.	.
4	Via access method #4	.	.
5	Via access method #5	.	.
6	Via access method #6	.	.
7	Via access method #7	.	.
8	Via access method #8	.	.
9	Via access method #9	.	.
10	Via access method #10	.	.
11	Via access method #11	.	.

	Secure Newsgroups	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Via access method #1	An example would be snews://secnews/netscape.communicator (Sorry; example newsgroups may be internal to Netscape only.)	.
2	Via access method #2	.	.
3	Via access method #3	.	.
4	Via access method #4	.	.
5	Via access method #5	.	.
6	Via access method #6	.	.
7	Via access method #7	.	.
8	Via access method #8	.	.
9	Via access method #9	.	.
10	Via access method #10	.	.
11	Via access method #11	.	.

	Password-protected Newsgroups	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Via access method #1	An example would be snews://secnews/netscape.champions	.
2	Via access method #2	.	.
3	Via access method #3	.	.
4	Via access method #4	.	.
5	Via access method #5	.	.
6	Via access method #6	.	.
7	Via access method #7	.	.
8	Via access method #8	.	.
9	Via access method #9	.	.
10	Via access method #10	.	.
11	Via access method #11	.	.

	Different Servers	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Via access method #1	Use as many different types of news servers as you have access to and time for here	.
2	Via access method #2	.	.
3	Via access method #3	.	.
4	Via access method #4	.	.
5	Via access method #5	.	.
6	Via access method #6	.	.
7	Via access method #7	.	.
8	Via access method #8	.	.
9	Via access method #9	.	.
10	Via access method #10	.	.
11	Via access method #11	.	.

	Stress/Abnormal Conditions	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	For a direct access method, group inaccessible	This could occur if the news server was down.	.
2	For a navigation access method, group inaccessible	.	.
3	For an URL access method, group inacccessible	.	.
4	Mail server not yet contacted in this Communicator session	For example, cancel your IMAP password prompt, or don't click "Get Mail" with POP, then click immediately on a group.	.
5	For a direct access method, group has not yet been opened in this session	.	.
6	For a navigation access method, group has not yet been opened in this session	.	.
7	For an URL access method, group has not yet been opened in this session	.	.
8	Group having large number of messages to expire	.	.
9	For a direct access method, group is already open in another client window	This may or may not be allowed in the 5.0 UI.	.
10	For a navigation access method, group is already open in another client window	.	.
11	For an URL access method, group is already open in another client window	.	.
12	Open several groups at once in different windows	This may or may not be allowed in the 5.0 UI.	.