Best practices in writing OpenACS automated tests
Special characters in Tcl. Try strings
starting with a -Bad
and
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@
-Bad [BAD] \077 { $Bad
should
be valid user input, should pass through the system unaltered, and
if it isn't that's a bug.
-Quoting issues. Put some html in plain +Quoting issues. Put some html in plain text fields and make sure the result is properly quoted anywhere it shows up (I use "<b>bold</b>" usually). Look out especially for quoting errors in the context bar and in round @@ -32,22 +35,21 @@ error but given that data for text fields can come from various sources if it's text it should be properly quoted and we should not rely on input validation to prevent XSS security holes.)
-Whitespace input. Check that whitespace
-is not considered valid input for a field if it does not make
-sense. For example, the subject of a forum post is used to
-construct a link and if it is " " it will have a link of
-<a href="...">
-</a>
which would not be clickable if whitespace was
-allowed as a valid input.
+Whitespace input. Check that whitespace is
+not considered valid input for a field if it does not make sense.
+For example, the subject of a forum post is used to construct a
+link and if it is " " it will have a link of <a href="..."> </a>
+which would not be clickable if whitespace was allowed as a valid
+input.
Doubleclick. Make sure that if you submit a form, use the back button, and submit again that the behavior is reasonable (correct behavior depends on what the form is for, but a server error is not reasonable).
Duplicate names. Make sure that if a duplicate name is entered that there is a reasonable error rather than a server error. Check for insert, move, copy, and rename.
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