User:DWalden (WMF)/Edit Recovery

Possible testing sessions

Survey cross-browser compatibility

• Test the basic capability of an array of browsers
• Do all browsers implement indexeddb in the same way?

Page sections and conflicts

• Page sections are identified by a numeric ID e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:DWalden_(WMF)/Edit_Recovery&action=edit&section=1
• These numeric IDs can be changed by rearranging sections on a page or adding new sections. What if this happens between a user editing a section and recovering the edit at a later date?

Content types

• Do different page content types (wikitext, JSON, CSS, etc.) make a difference?
• E.g. try editing your User:DWalden_(WMF)/common.js

Unintended logouts

• What forms of session exiting and expiring will clear the edit recovery data?
• For example, clearing cookies, cookie expiry

Compatibility with other features

• What features, gadgets, extensions will this not play nicely with?

Dynamic forms

• Some wikis and extensions have different editing forms, do they work with edit recovery.
• Examples of these include wikisource (pages in the Index and Page namespaces).
• What about the Extension:Page_Forms extension?

Test ideas

• Upgrading browser? Migrating profiles?
• Review unit coverage
• Sections
• Multiple pages
• Cross browser and device
• Types of edit?
• Are edits restored accurately?
• Unintended logouts (e.g. session timeout)
  • Does session expiry clear the data?
• Corruption detection?
• How clearly is it communicated to users? (esp. with conflicts)
• Frequency
  • It appears to be 5 seconds after stop typing. Too long?
• Compatibility
  • Other extensions, gadgets, RTP, etc.
  • Syntax highlighting
• Different content types
• What URL params might interfere?
• What config variables might interfere?
• What if a property is missing from the indexeddb object (e.g. minor edit)
• Disaster recovery
• ACID properties
  • Relaxed vs. strict durability ("How long does it take for a relaxed transaction to be written to non-volatile storage?")
• Timing
  • Crash just as new data being stored
• Dynamic forms (e.g. page forms extension, proofread page)?
• Negative testing
  • No space left on device
  • Make the indexeddb sqlite database read-only
• Cleared appropriately
  • What about unsuccessful saves?
  • Deliberately logging out does not clear
• Different parent revisions
• i18n
• Stress
  • https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&action=edit

Completed sessions

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