QA/Execution/Web Testing/SUMO/Tips and Pointers

Overview

This page has been created to aggregate details/pointers/info related to the SUMO website which will aid in testing and will help newbies quickly ramp up.

Caching

SUMO (prod and staging) caches JS/CSS via Citrix NetScalers, memcached, and Smarty

User Roles

SUMO has many user roles with varying privileges.Listed below are some of the user roles along with their privileges.

(Each group inherits permissions from the previous groups)

Anonymous

Anonymous users are people  who are not logged in. Anonymous users can:
* View articles in the Knowledge base, Administration, How to
contribute, and Live Chat documentation categories
* Post to the Firefox forum
* Submit article feedback.
* Vote on article feedback polls

Contributor Contributors are users that are logged in to the site. Contributors can:

* View articles in the staging area, and the testing area
* Post to the Contributors forum and Off Topic forum
* Edit or translating articles in the Knowledge base (pending

review), Staging area, and Live Chat documentation

Reviewer/Approver Approvers are community members deemed trustworthy enough to make

direct edits to public documentation and review other contributor
edits. Approvers can:
* Approve or reject knowledge base edits waiting for review
* Rename articles
* Edit or translate contributor documentation
* View articles in the Archive
* Create or edit dynamic content blocks

Locale Leader

Locale leaders are responsible for administration tasks for the site in a specific language. Locale leaders can:
* Edit or translate articles in the Administration category.
* Translate the website interface

(Need to add info related to user roles-Administrator and Forum moderator)

Translation

The notation for interface translation that shows you can translate that string resembles a degree symbol.

Articles

Articles still in staging (needing approval) are prefixed with '*'