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. Join the DDB: link works.
2. 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.
3. Search Tips
4. 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.
5. Dossiers
6. 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.

Header

Contains
- a Logo that links to homepage
- Search Button that opens the "search dialog"
- Sign language icon (Desktop: in header, Mobile: in sidemenu)
- Simple language icon (Desktop: in header, Mobile: in sidemenu)
- Login icon (Desktop: in header, Mobile: in sidemenu)
- Language selector (Desktop: in header, Mobile: in sidemenu)
- 3 links (only desktop) (content from CMS)
- Burger menu displays menu from the right (content from CMS)
To-Top button in startpage only shown when scrolled down.

Footer

Contains
- a Logo that links to homepage
- Text (Hardcoded)
- Social links: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon icons.
- links to: Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Legal Notice... (content from CMS)
- Newsletter: Input form with validation
- Other Portals (content from CMS)
- Funded by (Hardcoded)

Search Dialog

Dialog with a title, number of objects and 3 tab sections:
- Standard Search: In the search results pages, the query is kept in the input field. It has 3 subsections
  - Objects: Has a checkbox for All/Digitized objects and displays number of objects
  - Persons: displays number of persons
  - Organizations: displays number of organizations
  - Topics
- Advanced Search:
  - Has a text and a link to the help page.
  - Has a toggle button for selector AND/OR.
  - Has till 10 input rows with Facet selector, Input box and Search type selector. Rows can be added and removed.
  - Reset button
  - Search button
- Discover: contains predefined search queries, which are controlled by the Drupal CMS. Iniatially we see 20 search terms. If the user clicks on "Weitere anzeigen" 20 more search terms are loaded and displayed.
Active section is bold and underscored

Explore DDB dialog (Last section of Startpage)

Dialog with a close button and 2 sections: Objects and Persons
a line with predefined search queries (from CMS) that triggers a search in the same dialog. Active query is highlighted in red.
number of search results.
Initially we see the first hits of the respective search query with preview image and title. The user can see more terms loaded and displayed by navigation through load more button.
If the user clicks on a hit (image or title) he gets to the respective object/person page.

Side Menu (content from CMS so it can vary)

All menu and submenu items work

Participating cultural institutions (/about-us/institutions)

Sector filter works
Switching list/map works
Total number of institutions, number of selected institutions
Map: Zoom, Navigation works
- Click on a location leads to display of institutions with title and link
  Selection of an institution leads to detailed view of the institution
List: Glossary works

Search queries / search results list

Simple search works and returns results (Requirement: objects ingested)
Advanced search works and returns results (Requirement: objects ingested)
Preview images or placeholder images (not visible: alt text)
Hit highlighting: search terms are highlighted in the short display of results
Change of sorting (only desktop version)
Change the number of search results per page (only Desktop version)
Selection of "Only objects with digital copy
Switch to gallery view and back to list view
Facets:
- Values are available for all facets.
- Values can be searched for in text-based facets (e.g. keyword) as well as in key-based facets (e.g. division).
- Highlighting must work (the typed text is displayed in bold in the popup with the facet values).
- Maximum 301 results are displayed (with and without search filter set)
- Values can be selected and deselected.
Facet roles:
- The Person/Organization facet is hierarchical and has roles. For example, a selection of the person Schiller should contain the two roles "Involved in" and "Topic in".
- If a role is selected a new search is started
Time facet
- Selection of the dates From and/or To and a limitation Exact/Accurate provides different results
- The values can be applied or reset
Preview view:
- Mouse-over effect at the i icon, information about the object appears in a pop-up window. (Note: Changed specification. No more popups at preview image)
Click on title or preview image/placeholder image leads to detailed view

Object page

Detail view contains
- title
- further metadata
- name of the institution (link leads to the detailed view at the data provider)
- "Show object" button (link leads to the detailed view at the data provider)
- (correct) logo of the institution (not shown in mobile version)
- Link to this page
DDB Mets-Viewer: e.g. https://www-p.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/XYZY54QVXJ76JEKG7J7USQ4DHPRU56N4 (Preview system) dvr: object does not exist in P or Q1 - Link should be updated to a working object
Hint: objects of provider "zvdd - Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke" should have objects with links to the DDB-Mets-Viewer
Map: Beside images, movies, and others the Media Viewer should display locations by multipolygones on a map (use "Map" or "Karte" link)
e.g. https://www-p.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/NCSJTWVSL2THCRBS5XSXRXYFVOFIQVY2 (Preview system)
https://www-p.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/BVX4DQLCEEMA4WL465QIEPKZ4ZMLC2JS (Preview system) sche: No test object found in ddb-master!
Similar Objects (Similar objects)
Hierarchy: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/RHAL23CEZTMUD4YVZCOMBRQFMGQ6YJ6Y

Objects with binaries

Person page

Person page contains the following sections:
- Title area with names, professions
- Objects (optional)
- Involved in (optional)
- Topic in (optional)
- Picture (optional)
- Search
- External links

Content pages

Virtuelle Ausstellungen: https://dev-ddb.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ddb-master/content/journal/ausstellungen
- Infinite scrolling displays further "virtuelle Ausstellungen" of the list.

Institution page

general institution object (e.g. accessible via map view) contains
- name of the institution
- division
- address
- map section
- logo or white placeholder image (not visible: alt text)
Institution object, which is also data provider, (e.g. accessible via detailed view of a data object), contains
- information about the number of objects with a link to the relevant search query
- mostly own logo
Institution list correctly inserts sub-institutions (e.g. at SPK)

4. Registration / Login

Registration

Leave mandatory field blank: Error
E-Mail is sent
Email confirmation link must only work the first time, second time error page must appear

Login

invalid credential: error
valid credential: personalized functions available (PersonalFavorites, Saved Searches, User Data, API Access, Change Password, Delete Account)

My DDB

Favorites (/user/favorites)

Select favorites (in hit list or on object detail page)
- Hitlist and object detail page: bookmark icons (open star) can be used to save favorites
- Click on bookmark icon: Popup appears, icon changes to "marked" (filled star)
- Reload the page: Icons have the same state as before
- Switching to gallery view and back works, settings of bookmarks per page are kept
- Details page of a favorite: bookmark icon marked there too (filled star)
Personal favorites list (My DDB)
- Sorting of favorites
- Delete single favorites
- Create new (separate) favorites list
- Release / lock favorites list
- Delete favorites list

Saved Searches (/user/savedsearches)

Search queries
- create (via Hitlist)
- view, edit (My DDB)
- send (My DDB)
- delete (My DDB)

Profile

User data
Change password
Delete account
Newsletter

6. Browser compatibility

Testbedingungen

Testfilm: Es rauscht der Rhein dvr: Video spielt nicht in Q1 - liegt aber nicht am Frontend

Which browsers should be tested:

In 2020, it was decided that the browsers to test are:

Browser	Version	Specific OS
Firefox	Some of the latest	X
Chrome	Some of the latest	X
Edge	Some of the latest	Some Windows OS
Safari	Some of the latest	Mac OS
Mobile Chrome	Some of the latest	Android
Mobile Safari	Some of the latest	IOS

	Nutzung lt. DDB Matomo Statistik (1.1. 2018 bis 13.6.2018)
~~Internet Explorer 9~~	~~1,1%~~
Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7)	14,9%

Google Chrome 63	5,7%
Google Chrome 64	4,4%
Google Chrome 65	4,4%
Google Chrome 66	4,2%
Google Chrome 67	0,3%

Mozilla Firefox 52, 57, 58, 59, oder 60	2,7%, 4,4%, 6,5%, 6,8%, 2,6 %

Microsoft Edge (Windows 10)	6,4%

~~Opera 50, 51, 52, 53~~	~~0,4%, 0,3%, 0,4%, 0,1%~~

Safari 11 (MAC OS)	3 %

Opera Mobile	?

Mobile Safari 10, 11,	1%, 5%,

Chrome Mobile V64,V65 oder V66	1,6%, 1,6%, 1,4%