Re: Some notes on testing

[Nicholas Reville]

To add to this, it would be especially helpful if we could have some kind of simulated flaky internet connection for testing and make sure that we fail gracefully when the connection is rough during login or typing.

nicholas

On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Holmes Wilson wrote:

Hey Everyone --

Here were some problems we noticed in a series of recent demonstrations, particularly with logging in while working in the widget.

Could everyone working on testing focus on this part of the process? We are not making any major changes to the widget login process in this release (except improving how it works when there is a flaky connection) so any bug reports based on the production site will be valuable as well.

The notes below might be a useful reference, in terms of what to look for.

Thanks!

--Holmes

Begin forwarded message:

one last note-- in addition to any changes we want to make around logins, i think that we should add lots of testing in this area, especially having people login mid-way and do weird things while doing so.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Nicholas Reville <n...@pculture.org> wrote:

and another:

when the login dialog comes up, if you hit the wrong key you can still make the video play behind it, which is weird.  we should sort of freeze this out while that dialog is up.

but again, the major problem throughout has been the login dialog.  if we can eliminate this, that would be great.

nicholas

b. when it asks people to login, weird things happen.  the pop-up windows sometimes appear behind all the other windows or seem to not appear at all and give a 'cant be unlocked' message or something like that.  it makes me think that we should ditch the outside login options in the widget and just ask people to either login with a Universal Subtitles account or to simply enter an email address and continue working.  we can then send a confirm link to that address.  it seems like this is a real point of failure right now, especially on Windows.

[jed jed]

So under http://bugzilla.pculture.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14873, Adam made the saving system more robust when in the widget. particularly to deal with flaky internet situations.

I'm not sure how that affects login, nor do I know if those changes were pushed to the live site.

For Login - we do have tests for logging in during the subtitling process.  However none that include disconnecting the internet during that period.  I'll add that to the test cases, and file any bugs that come up.

Janet

[Adam Duston]

> On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Holmes Wilson wrote:
>
> Hey Everyone --
> Here were some problems we noticed in a series of recent demonstrations,
> particularly with logging in while working in the widget.

I don't think I got this message. The two problems described in the
message appear to be of totally different species. There is supposed
to be a ticket for trying the widget out in different page
environments, and I listed a number of scenarios on that ticket. I'm
guessing that the dialog-behind-elements problem is covered by one of
those environments. "Stop video from reacting to keypresses while
login dialog is open" should be a ticket.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Nicholas Reville <n...@pculture.org> wrote:
> To add to this, it would be especially helpful if we could have some kind of

http://bugzilla.pculture.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14873#c5

Adam

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