Kunena 6.2.5 & module Kunena Latest 6.0.7 released
The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.5 [K 6.2.5] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.3.x/4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2
Question K 1.6 Attention all Kunenans: Help wanted to build a Testing Plan
As we get closer to a "complete" alpha version of K 1.6, a few people have approached me to develop a testing plan for the new version so that we can eliminate design and construction errors in a methodical, systematic and thorough manner. A test plan will help our testers know what is expected from them. Of course, designing and developing a comprehensive test plan, covering all features and facets of a product like Kunena, is easy, isn't it? :whistle:
Whether you can afford to spend 5 minutes or 5 hours, this is how you can help:
- Identify a function of Kunena that needs to be tested. For example, it could be something to do with the Forum Administration facility.
- Describe one or a few tests that that should be performed. For example
- Create a new category
- Create a forum in this category
- Define the following attributes for both the Category and the Forum
- Locked = No
- Public Access = Everybody
- Include Child Groups = Yes
- Admin Access Level = Manager
- Include Child Groups = Yes
- Review Posts = No
- Moderated = Yes
- Verify that the created category and forum are able to be viewed from the front end
- Create a test post to verify that the message appears on the forum
Don't worry if you post an idea that has already been posted before. Leave those kinds of issues to me.
Our main aim is to build a list of functions that exist and describe how to test them. The sooner we get collect this information and start using for our testing, the sooner we will be able to deliver a reliable next version of Kunena. Therefore, it's in your interest to be part of this activity!
There are a few last things left to mention:
- Please stay on topic. Off-topic postings may be deleted at the moderator's discretion. See points 2-6 below
- Please don't use the topic to ask for new features (we have a separate category for that purpose).
- Please do not ask for support or explanation about things discussed in this topic - this topic is not about support and it's not for discussion purposes: it's for building a list of functions to be tested.
- Please do not ask for information about what new features exist in K 1.6. Assume that, for the most part, whatever you can currently use in K 1.5 will be available in K 1.6.
- Please do not use this topic to report defects with K 1.6 or to seek help with problems you may encounter.
- Please do not ask where to download K 1.6 test versions. This discussion is for building a list of functions to be tested not for enquiries about what you might need to download to test K 1.6.
- I intend to produce the summarised test plan as a public document in the Kunena Wiki. I will update this post when I have a template for it.
- We cannot thank everyone individually but we do appreciate whatever help you can give.
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* Install Kunena from software installation kit. Ensure that software installation completes with "Installation Successful" message.
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* After installing Kunena, verify that there are sample messages (e.g. Welcome Mat); login to the site and use the following "reply" options:
- "Reply" to a post; verify that the subject of the reply is Re: followed by the subject of the message being replied to
- "Quick reply" to a post; verify that the subject of the reply is Re: followed by the subject of the message being replied to
- "Quote" the text of a post in a reply; verify that the subject of the reply is Re: followed by the subject of the message being replied to
- "Reply Topic"; verify that the subject of the reply is Re: followed by the subject of the first message in the topic
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Upgrade from older modified version of Kunena (Community builder, UddeIM etc) and see if there are any errors and if yes, what kind of errors.
Since there are a huge amount of question about migrating from phpBB to Kunena, I think testing this in advance can prevent a lot of questions and problems afterwards. I have a quite big phpBB forum myself and am really qurious what's happening after a conversion and things like performance.
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1) Go to Forum Manager, choose category and set: Allow anonymous messages = Yes, save
2) Go to forum, go into that category and post new topic/reply. You should see: Anonymous Post [ ]
3) Fill required information and make post anonymous. Hit Submit. You should get back to the form with an error message to change your name. All filled information should remain.
5) Change username and Submit again. Your message should be posted anonymously (as visitor).
6) Edit your own message as normal user. Change you post to be anonymous and submit. You should see error message to change your name. All information filled into form should remain.
7) Change username and Submit again. Your message should be changed to anonymous.
Log in as moderator. Edit any message posted by user. Do not change name, but check anonymous posting. Submit. Post author should now be Anonymous in your own locale.
Phew!
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* Kunena Configuration: User Related / Allow Subscriptions = Yes
* Kunena Configuration: Security / Include complete post content in the e-mail sent to subscribers = Yes
* Create 2 forums: 'Moderated' (Moderated: Yes) and 'Anarchy' (Moderated: No)
* Create 4 users: moderator, catmoderator, subscriber and tester.
* Make sure that also Admin email address is correct: it's needed in this test
* Assign user 'moderator' as moderator but do not select categories, making him global moderator
* Assign user 'catmoderator' as moderator in categories 'Moderated' and 'Anarchy'
(Bug! You should should not be able to put moderators into 'Anarchy')
* Log in as subscriber and post a topic 'Email test' both in 'Moderated' and 'Anarchy'. Make sure that you subscribed to the topics
Testing:
We have 8 tests to be performed. In each:
1) Go to Kunena Configuration and check 3 settings Yes/No (see tests below):
- User Related / Allow Subscriptions
- Security / E-mail Moderators
- Security / E-mail Administrators
2) Reply topic 'Email test' in both 'Moderated' and 'Anarchy' with following text:
- "Subscribe=X, Moderator=Y, Admin=Z", where X, Y and Z are Yes/No (see tests below)
3) Confirm that right persons get email
Tests:
1) Subscriber=No, Moderator=No, Admin=No
2) Subscriber=Yes, Moderator=No, Admin=No
3) Subscriber=Yes, Moderator=Yes, Admin=No
4) Subscriber=No, Moderator=Yes, Admin=No
5) Subscriber=No, Moderator=Yes, Admin=Yes
6) Subscriber=Yes, Moderator=Yes, Admin=Yes
7) Subscriber=Yes, Moderator=No, Admin=Yes
Subscriber=No, Moderator=No, Admin=Yes
Results:
* Moderated forum: Verify that everyone in this test (subscriber, both moderators and admin) get exactly 4 emails, where his name is Yes in the message contents
* Anarchy forum: Same result except neither moderator or catmoderator gets any messages!
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- Search for topics based on text appearing anywhere in the message
- Search for topics based on text appearing only in the message subject
- Repeat the above tests searching for topics based on the following criteria
- Messages created later than a nominated date
- Messages created earlier than a nominated date
- Messages created by a particular user
- Messages located in a nominated forum or forums and any subordinate (child) forums of those
- Verify that the search function returns only those messages that satisfy the entered search criteria.
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Joomla site menu->Global Configuration
Then click yes at "Search Engine Friendly URLs".
Go back to Kunena forum
Then click at Forum administration
Then create 2 categories/subcategories.
Then go back to the Front page
Click on the any of the created category/subcategory.
Kunena v1.5.9 doesn't know which category too choose.
When you have the SAME name on those then Kunena v1.5.9 will not know which category/subcategory to choose.
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- try installing K1.6 on a mint new Joomla! installation with no previously existing forums;
- try installing K1.6 over 1.5.10 (and possibly 1.5.9 and 1.5.8 as well), thus checking for proper file/folders/db tables deletion/replacement/overwrite;
- try installing K1.6 over 1.5.10 (and possibly 1.5.9 and 1.5.8 as well) after uninstalling the previous forum; uninstallation actually leaves untouched tables in the DB so the test is aimed to check whether K1.6 installation properly detects DB table even though K1.5.x is not officially existing in Joomla!.
Possibly, all those tests should be attempted both via zip upload and starting from a folder already existing in the web server.
Hope this helps.
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