Feature Test Spec

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

Written by: Stacey Curtis References:
UI Specification:
Other:
Approx. number of test cases:

This test plan will expand drastically once the UI for the subscribe dialog for mail5 has been designed.

.	Access methods (to be performed while following the test cases contained in other tables)	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Subscribe dialog	.	.
2	URL: Via URL when group is already subscribed	.	The existing subscription should be used or an error message should appear stating that the group is already subscribed.
3	URL: Via URL when group is not already subscribed	.	.
4	URL: Via URL when server is not yet added	.	.
5	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 subscribe should be unsuccessful.
6	URL: Via URL from news message	.	.
7	URL: Via URL from mail message	.	.
8	Placeholder for another Subscribe dialog access method (to be defined with UI)	.	.
9	Placeholder for another Subscribe dialog access method (to be defined with UI)	.	.

	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	.	.

	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	.	.

	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	.	.

	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	.	.

	Stress/Abnormal Conditions	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Group inaccessible	This could occur if the news server was down.	.
2	For an URL access method, group inacccessible	.	.
3	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.	.
4	Subscribe to several groups at once	This may or may not be allowed in the 5.0 UI.	.
5	Unsubscribe from a group via the subscribe UI	.	.
6	Unsubscribe from a group by dragging it to a trash	Try this for every valid trash location	.
7	Unsubscribe from a group by selecting it and pressing the delete key	.	.
8	Unsubscribe from several groups at once via the subscribe UI	.	.
9	Unsubscribe from several groups at once by dragging to trash	Try for every valid trash location	.
10	Unsubscribe from several groups at once using the delete key	.	.
11	Cancel a subscribe before the action has been completed	UI to determine how	.
12	Interrupt a subscribe event	Probably by interrupting a multiple subscribe	.
13	Subscribe to hundreds of groups	.	.
14	Unsubscribe to all groups on a particular server without removing the server	.	.