Test Areas

Web UI

• Accuracy and completeness of online help

  Admin UI

• Create new community
• Create new sub-community
• Create new collection
• Create new e-people, groups
• Edit items
• Withdraw and reinstate items
• Expunge items
• Edit metadata registry (new DC fields, new schemas)
• Edit bitstream format registry
• Abort a workflow via admin UI
• Authorisation (see Authorisation below)
• Edit news on front page
• Supervisors
• Statistics (see statistics below)

  Miscellaneous UI

• Configure metadata fields to appear in simple item display
• Default (`webui.itemdisplay.default = ...`
• Per-collection (`webui.itemdisplay.style = ...` and `webui.itemdisplay.style.collections = ...`
• HTML documents (see also: Submission UI)
• RSS Feeds
• Translations
• My DSpace
• View subscriptions (see also E-mail below)
• View accepted submissions
• Edit profile
• OpenURL links

  Submission UI

• Creative commons licences
• Switched on and off
• Try using HTTP proxy via `http.proxy.host/port`
• Single file
• Multiple files
• Upload HTML document (multiple files with primary bitstream)
• Configure `input-forms.xml`
• Recognised formats
• Unrecognised format
• Checksum verification
• Licences (site default, per-collection)

  Submisson workflow

• Collections with no workflow steps, or a combination
• For each workflow step, test editing metadata
• Test accept and reject
• Controlled vocabulary

  Authentication

  under UI for now, since it's the only place it's currently used
• Log in with simple username/password
• Register a new account
• Forgot password (see also: E-mail)
• LDAP server
• Shibboleth
• X509 certificate
• Logging out

  Search and browse

• Configure columns in item lists (search results etc) using `webui.itemlist.columns` in `dspace.cfg`
• Browse communities and collections
• Growse titles, authors, subjects, by date
• With scope 'All of DSpace', in a community, in a sub-community, in a collection
  Configure date, author, title, subject by using `webui.browse.index.` properties in `dspace.cfg`
• Try configuring a different analyzer (e.g. for Chinese)
• Basic and advanced search
  Configure search fields (`search.index.` in `dspace.cfg`)

  Other functionality

  OAI-PMH

• Validate using http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ epository Explorer
• Extract METS, DIDL; ensure valid XML

  Batch import/export

• Test import and export

  Media Filters

• Thumbnail generation
• Full-text extraction and indexing
• Configure to support different bitstream formats

  E-mail

• Configure an SMTP server that needs authentication, try sending mail (e.g. 'forgot password' mail)
• Send feedback using link in footer
• Get error alerts
• Test subscriptions (`subs-daily`)

  Statistical reports

  TODO

  Checksum checker

  TODO

  Installation, Updating, Deployment

• Test fresh install
• Test update from 1.3.2 with existing data + configuration
• Update customised/modified DSpace, find 'gotchas'
• See also Handle Server

  Under the bonnet/hood

  Database platforms

• Test fresh install, 1.3.2 -> 1.4 upgrade
• On PostgreSQL
• On Oracle (version numbers?)

  Bitstream storage

• Multiple asset stores
  

  Handle Server

• Install/update and test a 'live' Handle Server (connect to global)

  Authorisation

• Default permissions (on submission)
• Remove read access, check access not possible (on bitstreams)
• Check unauthorised users cannot access admin UI, edit community/collection/item screens, submit

  Content API

  TODO

  Packagers, crosswalks

• Need feedback on API
  TODO