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Access methods (to be performed while following the test cases contained
in other tables) |
Notes
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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. |
|
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. |
