Ubuntu Wiki

Browser Testing

Launching

1. Launch the UME browser using various input devices

   • Click desktop icon using touch screen
   • Click desktop icon using hardware trackball/joystick
   • Click desktop icon using Bluetooth/USB mouse
   • Launch browser from console command

Appearance

1. Screen layout (Main browser window)

   • The layout should be consistent in both design and appearance.
   • The menu layout should display when selected and be obvious to navigate and use.
   • Your screen layout should look like this:

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Menus

1. New Tab

   • Utilise tab browsing in a similar fashion to FireFox. (Open, input an address, close)

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1. View

   • Status Bar can be activated and deactivated
   • Zoom in/out/reset work when clicked and when using keyboard shortcut
   • All character encoding options are available and functioning
   • Full Screen provides more screen space for browsing.

2. Tools, History, Bookmarks

   • Bookmarks should be no more complex to add and remove than a normal browser on any platform.
   • History shortcut keys are supplied for forward and back.

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• Show all history and bookmarks will open a side bar similar to FireFox.

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• Tools should be no more complex than those of FireFox. On the whole they are self explanatory.

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1. Web Search

   • As with FireFox there are plenty of options for searching the web.

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1. About

   • About dialogue contains version, copyright, and credits.

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1. Working off-line and quit

   • Working off-line can be toggled on and off and cached pages should be viewable.
   • Quit should close the browser cleanly

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Browsing

1. Check popular sites for media handling and appearance

   • YouTube

   • CNN

   • MySpace

   • Digg

2. Check common user path features of browser

   • Back button memory
   • Bookmark management
   • Add-ons
   • HTTPS/SSL

Java Runtime Support

1. Test the version of JVM

   • Open link: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml in the browser

Error Handling

1. Handling of common errors

   • File/Page not found
   • Corrupted pages

2. Handling environment errors

   • Kill browser unexpectedly
   • Connection dropped