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We have to allow for anonymous testing, i.e. we cannot require a Bugzilla account for Litmus use. The perception is that this is too high a barrier to entry for casual testers. | |||
Suggestions to overcome this: | |||
* straight anonymous testing | |||
* password-based logins with no relation to Bugzilla (con: another account for users to remember/forget) | |||
* redirect users through Bugzilla on result submission | |||
* ability to associate results with a Bugzilla/Litmus account after the fact. | |||
** track some form of data about the user in the db (temp username, cookie) and backfill that once the user signs up with an account. | |||
NOTE: these are not necessarily competing paradigms; we might adopt more than one | |||
= Replicate Testrunner Functionality = | = Replicate Testrunner Functionality = | ||