Welcome to Testathon 6.0!

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WHAT: Help beta-test DSpace 6.0 to ensure that it passes its ultimate test: that it does what users expect it to. We've added new features (see Release Notes and Changes in 6.x) that could use more eyes, browsers, and mouse-clicks to make sure that things aren't missing, that they don't break, that they don't lose your data, and that they easily do what one expects them to do. So if any features have issues while your testing it, click the "Feedback" button and tell us about it.

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HOW: Go to http://demo.dspace.org and test-drive one of the DSpace User Interfaces, such as JSPUI or XMLUI. If anything comes up while you are testing DSpace, you can click the blue "Feedback" button on the page. We're looking for feedback on the DSpace software, as well as feedback on our unreleased 6.0 documentation.

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• Optionally, you can also run and test DSpace 6 locally.
• Download and install 6.0-rc1: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.0-rc1  (6.0 documentation)
• Or,use Vagrant-DSpace to quickly install DSpace 6.0-rc1 on a local virtual machine(e.g.

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• VirtualBox)

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Test Plans: New for the 6.0

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Testathon, our DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has created public test plans for both the XMLUI and JSPUI. We encourage you to add your observations and tests to these plans. Tests are organized by user-role, where each user role is represented as a tab in these spreadsheets. Each of the tabs has a "Role Manager" who will help out with reviewing your feedback and keeping these test plans clean and consistent.

• XMLUI Test Plan: http://bit.ly/xmlui-test-plan
• JSPUI Test Plan: http://bit.ly/jspui-test-plan

Questions?  Ask them on our DSpace Tech Support list (https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dspace-tech) or #dspace IRC (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/IRC)

For a list of what's new in DSpace 6.0, see the Release Status Page.the Release Notes!

Updated Documentation for 6.0

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