This page collects functional tests that should be performed after deploying new software versions (backend and/or frontend) and after loading datasets for consistent quality assurance.
If test data is missing in the desired system, please contact the mapping team at ddbdaten@fiz-mapping.de.

Quick Testing

For a quick look at a frontend in order to test its general functionality, please check:

• Startpage is available (containing the 6 sections: Join the DDB, News Slider, Search Tips, On this Day, Dossiers, Explore the German Digital Library)
• Login is possible
• A Object/Person/Organization search leads to a result page, containing facets with values
• object-page exists (containing mets-viewer, lightbox, hierarchy)
• person-page exists
• institutions-page exists
• about-us/institutions#map exists
• all CMS-pages exist
  • /content/dossiers
  • /content/virtuelle-ausstellungen
  • /content/blog
  • /content/spiele
  • /content/wie-suche-ich-im-portal

0. General Information

Before starting testplan

Set DDBJournal in read only mode, following 

Responsiveness

• Check pages for correctness of display in desktop view and mobile view (applies to all pages).
• Max zoom supported is 200%
• Min viewport width is 576px.

Localization

• Switching German/English works --> localization (also affects all pages), i.e. pages are also displayed correctly in English

Print Version  (Not considered in 8.1)

Check the print version (provided by the browser) of the pages.
General: All content is also displayed correctly in the print version, without layout overlaps, without additional content (such as source code, etc.).
General requirements for print versions see 

In case of video preview, the image is not part of the print version  (DDBNEXT-3181)

1. Softwaretests

Startpage DDBNEXT-4154

• Startpage should show 6 different sections:
  1. Slider with up to 5 slides with a "title" link and a background image. Also in the middle, a button opens the "search dialog" and display the number of objects.
  2. Article slider:
     1. link "More articles" redirects to a news overview page e.g. "/content/journal/hintergrund"
     2. Carrousel. Each item has an Image an a title with links to the corresponding article.
  3. Join the DDB: link works.
  4. Latest news: Carrousel with the 4 newest articles of category "Aktuell". Each item shows a publication date, a title, a link to article and an image.
  5. Search TipsSpotlight:
     Spotlight: Displays an article with a title, summary and background image. The title is a link to the article. 
  6. Calendar: Displays current day and month, and image an a text (160 chars with ellipsis) which link to corresponding article. Note: Section is displayed only if there is a calendar for the day.
  7. Latest news: Carrousel with the 4 newest articles of category "Aktuell". Each item shows a publication date, a title (linked to article), and image (linked to article). The active article's title is highlighted with a red underscore.
  8. We are the DDB: Slider displays 4 newest articles with the tag "Wir sind die DDB" from the cms. Each item shows a title (linked to article), summary (only desktop) and background image.
  9. Exhibitions: same as 2. Article slider
  10. About the DDB: 2 boxes with pre-line, headline, button-text, linked url.
  11. Dossiers
  12. Explore the German Digital Library in all its depth: Displays a background image, a title, a text and 2 buttons. Each button opens the "Explore DDB dialog" in the corresponding tab.Other portals of the DDB: Displays 3 items with an Image, a pre-line and a headline (linked to url).

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