Cases
Examples/Comments
Installation of your App
You can use BOM program for checks below
Verify a version of each file
Should be correct
Verify an assembly number of each file
Must be kept in sync
Verify copyright info for each file
Should be correct
Verify digital signature, if any
Should be correct
Verify each file is installed to correct
location
Check what happens when each file - and
each of its dependencies - is missing.
OPERATIONS
1. Open file (created in previous version of app) and save (as) in new version format
2. Create file in current version of app and save (as) into old version format
3. Save old files into new version, back to the previous (save (as) in old version file format) and open in
new version of app.
a. Is it opened correctly?
b. Are all new features converted correctly?
c. How are embedded objects of previous versions handled?
4. Create file in new version of app and open it in old version
a. If document opens, how features added in new version handled?
If not, is the resulting error message clear?
Open from and Save/Save As
1. Different file system
2. Protocols
1. FAT, NTFS
2. local disk, UNC network share, http:// (see below more
examples)
Open from and Save/Save As
1. Menu item
2. Toolbar item
3. Hot key (e.g., Control+S for Save)
4. Most Recently Used list
5. Microsoft SharePoint document library
6. Context menu(s)
7. The application’s Most Recently Used list
8. The operating system’s Most Recently Used list
9. Drag-and-drop from the file system explorer
10. Drag-and-drop from your desktop
11. Drag-and-drop from another application
12. Command line
13. Double-click a shortcut on your desktop
14. Double-click a shortcut in an email or other document
Embedded object
Cause the following to occur during Open, Save, Save As:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Drop all network connections
Reboot the application
Reboot the machine
Sleep the machine
Hibernate the machine
AutoSave
1. Every zero minutes
2. Every minutes
3. Big documents
4. Simulate multiple autosaves simultaneously
Close app during AutoSave
Save and Save as when
1. No documents are dirty
2. One document is dirty
3. Multiple documents are dirty and the user chooses to save all of them
4. Multiple documents are dirty and the user chooses to save none of them
Multiple documents are dirty and the user chooses to save only some of them
PATH
Root disk
C:\
Short path to a file
C:\tmp, C:tmp.txt (valid path (!) )
Relative path to a file
(always limited to MAX_PATH = 260
symbols)
\temp\scripts\
Relative path into subfolder
Sub\folder\path
Relative path into a current folder
.\file.ext
..\parent\file.ext
This is the same file (!)
Relative path into a parent folder
c:\dir\foo\files\secret\..\..\myfile.txt
c:\dir\foo\files\..\myfile.txt
c:\dir\..\dir\foo\files\..\myfile.txt
A deeply nested path
(a lot of nested folders)
Long\long\long\long\far\far\far\path\path\path\to\to\to\to\file
\file\file\you\you\you\must\must\verify
Try path is more, less than 260 characters and exactly equal
Locations
1. Floppy drive
2. Removable drive
a. USB flash drive
b. Memory cards
c. External hard drive
d. DVD-ROM/RW, CD-ROM/RW
UNC path
1. Shared folder
1.1 Restricted permissions
1.2 Long path on other machine
2. Administrative access
\\machine_name (or IP)\shared
\\?\UNC\machine_name(or IP)\shared
\\machine_name\d$\tmp
\\192.168.1.2\shared
\\192.168.1.2\d$\tmp
Mapped disk
Z:\ = d:\temp\test
Y:\ = \\machine_name\d$
X:\ = \\192.168.1.5\shared
Use the path with "http://, ftp://, file://,
..."
http://google.com
Verify persistence of path
App keeps the last saved path and uses it next time
System variables
1. Standard
2. User-Defined
%TEMP%
%my_variable%
Set file's filter to *.*
Try to open unsupported file
Set file's filter to *.ext
Type full name of the file with another extension (image.jpg)
Archived with the password
If allowed
External Storage
Quality Center, SharePoint
I18N (name of the file and folder)
Persistence of the path
App keeps last saved path and use it next time
FILE NAME and OPERATIONS
The name of the file is short
1. Empty
2. 1 symbol (digit/a-Z/special char)
Short file format aka 8.3 format
<6chars>~<number>.<extension>
Filles~2.txt
Existed file
Save into (with the same name)
Locked file
Opened by another application
Corrupted file
Invalid file name
C:\temp\filee.txt
(If there is no filee.txt in C:\temp)
Bad Data
Expected format of a file but with bad data
File name with . , <space>
1. Fil.ename.txt
2. File,name.txt
3. Filen ame.txt
Character-Encoding Scheme
ASCII, Unicode, UTF8, etc
Change ASCII to Unicode and open your files, play with different
character-encoding scheme.
Size of a file
0
Very big file
Short name
out.txt
The name of the file is long
16/32/64/128/256, 260 (MAX), 512... symbols
Just filename
file.ext
Extra-long name
99999 symbols
Space in the file name
Prog is My! I ne volnuyet
The name with different special chars
<>:”\/|?*
These special chars are not allowed to be in file name (Windows)
File name with the specific for OS chars
and reserved words
Windows :
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1 – COM9,LPT1 - LPT9
\\?\
\\?\D:\very long path (max is 32767 but each component of path
should not b more than 260 symbols)
Use GUID instead of volume name
\\?\Volume{e2464852-8089-11d2-8803-806d6172696f}\
To identify the GUID of your disks type “mountvol” in command
line. Details - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524
Symlinks
1. Soft (shortcuts)
2. Hard (Junction points)
Details. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-tosymbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
PERMISSIONS
User's Permissions
Administrators, Guests, Users, Power Users
Folder\File's Permissions
Read Only, Hidden, Normal
Files\Folders to which you don’t have an
access
Files\Folders whose security is set such that you cannot access
them