BUGS FOUND THIS FAR:
1. Headers already sent (Usul): Perhaps screenshot thingee related.
2. Search box, searcing with partial name (Usul, eMTe,...): Not really a bug, one can use * as wildcard, but it should be explained better. I do not want to use 'part of name search' as default, because I already gave up the case sensitivity, and we have for example game called N. Just think of trying to searh it from huge game database, if all games containing N or n would be listed... All suggestions welcome.
3. Downloads not working (eMTe): Not a bug. DLs are not meant to work on test board, good work anyways
4. Screenies moving everything (eMTe): Everything should be gently moved down. If everything was moving to right, then there is something odd going on... I need to investigate it. However it may be I personally have no competence to fix Javascripts... For me screenshits were zooming towards the centeras they should. And rest of the site was being pushed down. That's the way it should work too. Whether it is ugly or not, that's viewers decision of course. But I'm open to all suggestions. Sad part is that I cannot do much about it, because I absolutely suck in jacascript...Spanek?
5. Review not shown after submission (eMTe): Not a bug. Yes reviews need to be validated as Peter Alf said
6. Glace screenshot error (eMTe): Some screens are in wrong format, and therefore produce errors. But this was something that should have been fixed by one of my db conversion scripts... Investigation needed. Will be fixwd whenchanges are applied to real site.
7. Game edit too. template->make filename... (Peter Alf): Yes, real bug. These are mostly produced by incomplete pre multilanguage support edits. All pages giving this error should be reported. (Thank's PA) FIXED
8. Some thumbs not shown in 'at spotlights' (Chroelle): Propably caused by the fact that it is testarea. If such things happend after 'new version' is started to be used on real site, then we should be more worried... Good toknow anyways
9. News Posters Privs not working (Chroelle): Must be investigated. It propably is a bug. Oh, This was not yet implemented
10. Add game tool, giving syntax error (Chroelle): Real error. There was also dozens of other bugs in game adding/editing tool... So please do not use those on real mainsite yet. (FIXED on testarea now)
11. Added game not viewed on site after adding(Chroelle): Propably because game status was accidentally left to 'do not allow dling'. BUT even if it is the case, game adding/editing tool are confusing. Those should be improved at some point. Also status thing should be checked from database to see there is not a bug...
12 Errors on headers when image link is wrong (Peter Alf): Same as 6. However in game edit / add tool there could be a checking system to ensure there really is image where the given link points to... FIXED: added screenie file existence check in game adding tool.
This far it looks ok... I can live with the amount of bugs reported, and I believe I'll get them fixed in a few days, depending on my schedule
Oh, is game editing tool tested? And, could you please ensure that info you give with game adding/editing thingee will be updated on site correctly? That's one of the possible, and nasty bugs... Imagine that for some reason, the developer's mail is not written in database... We add 100 new games, without noticing it, and then suddenly someone notices... What happens? Suddenly we need to dig up developer emails for 100 games, find the correct rows from database and update the emails by hand.......
So please check the info with care
[/UPDATE]
Testers should now have all rights on site (not on forums) at the dev version.
I assume you all know where the dev site is, right
(I will not post link because I do not wish to get search engine bots indexing the development version.)Anyways, some info for testers:
Test everything on site (not on forums). Everything includes 'admin features' too, no matter what their status is claimed to be. You can find a little link at the bottom of each page on dev site, titled as 'Site Control Panel'. That's where the 'admin' features are.
It would perhaps be good if you agreed together who tests what ( although everyone is free to test everything, but that would ensure that at least someone has been testing each feature
)And then some 'guidance' what I wish you especially test:
1. First test normal operation. Think how those things are expected to be used.
2. Perform following tests for all places where you can submit something:
a) Test using single and double quote(s) in text. (" and ' mark(s) ) (This Is Important test regarding security)
b) Test using backslashes at the end of inputs, as well as in front of t and n characters
c) Try embedding some html code which you assume could break the outlook of the site. (like <hr> (vertical line), <br /> (line ending), </tr> (end of a row in a table), </td> (end of a cell in table)...)
c) finally try giving invalid inputs, like text when numeric values are expected and so on.
3. Test that there is no invalid links.
Please report all errors (or seem to be errors) no matter if it is obvious that the feature is unfinished. (My memory is gone even worse... It's good to remember what I still need to do
)You can also report if something seems to be working in a stupid way, or is terribly clumsy to use. It would be great if you also included suggestion how to improve that
And have fun, but remember that the dev site is not protected at the moment. IE, anyone who finds it will be able to read everything you have written
And.. Thousand thanks! You do IMPORTANT job
Testing (especially when someone else but developer does it is IMPORTANT). (If coder himself performs tests, it is obvious for him that site does this or that... But someone else might find it terribly hard to use. Also coder often unconsciously believes that something do work, and forgets to actually check it. After all, I bet that 95% of all errors found after the first 'somehow working' version are to be found by 'end user', unless testing is performed carefully And Sorry if this message looks messy. I posted this using SSH connection to my former workplace's server, and used text based web browser called Lynx to get this posted.... Dont ask why...
. Maybe you can send me the link via PM?
there is just the word "laughing".