Post to Newsgroups Feature Test Plan

.	Access methods (to be performed while following the test cases contained in other tables)	Notes	Expected Outcome (if not obvious)
1	Post with the receiving newsgroup selected	Group: field will be filled in automatically with the name of the group.	.
2	Post with a different newsgroup selected (recipient group is subscribed to by the tester)	Group: field will be filled in automatically with the name of the selected group. The tester will have to change it.	.
3	Post with a different newsgroup selected (recipient group is not subscribed to by the tester)	.	.
4	Post with a mail folder selected	Blank "To" field will be active. The tester will have to change the "To" to a "Group" and type in the group name.	.
5	Post a reply to a news message (from the 3-pane UI)	.	.
6	Post by replying to a news message that has been opened up in a standalone message window	.	.
7	Post a reply to a mail message; cc: the newsgroup	.	.
8	Post by drag-n-dropping a mail message to a newsgroup	May or may not be supported in mail5.	.
9	Post by drag-n-dropping a newsgroup icon to the compose window addressee block	May or may not be supported in mail5, and may only be on certain platforms.	.
10	Post to a newsgroup on a different server than the currently-selected one (be subscribed to the same group on both servers).	The tester will have to type in the full news URL in order to try this test.	I think this describes a test that Laurel suggested ("post a message across news servers") ... I'm not quite sure I have it right, but it's supposed to fail.

Non-Secure Newsgroups Notes Expected Outcome (if not obvious)

1 Via access method #1 An example would be news://news/netscape.communicator.mac. Note: Sorry, example servers are internal to Netscape only. .

2 Via access method #2 . .

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9 Via access method #9 . .

10 Via access method #10 . .

Secure Newsgroups Notes Expected Outcome (if not obvious)

1 Via access method #1 An example would be snews://secnews/netscape.communicator .

2 Via access method #2 . .

3 Via access method #3 . .

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10 Via access method #10 . .

Password-protected Newsgroups Notes Expected Outcome (if not obvious)

1 Via access method #1 An example would be snews://secnews/netscape.champions (username/password: moz/mozsc@pe) .

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 . .

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 (if you've been using the groups listed, you've already tried three, but take a look through the lab.) .

2 Via access method #2 . .

3 Via access method #3 . .

4 Via access method #4 . .

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Individual tests Notes Expected Outcome (if not obvious)

1 Post a plain-text message . .

2 Post a message with html-formatting . .

3 Cancel a post before sending. . .

4 Post when the mail server has gone down. . .

5 Cross-post to several groups . .

6 Post with a vcard, signature, image, and web page attached. . .

7 Post with an incomplete news URL . Graceful failure.

8 Post to a nonexistent group . Graceful failure.