Testing

Remember outside plugins or themes can potentially cause issues as well.

Snowball Admin page

• Check if the all the blocks can be added to the page

• Check if the meta boxes

  • are functional
  • looks proper

Saving

• Check if the Preview creates an article from the blocks that are exist on the current Admin page.

• Check if the Update/Publish button saves the article.

• Check the status of the article for Draft and Pending Review.

Deletion

• Check if articles can be deleted properly.

• Check if blocks can be removed properly.

Snowball Blocks

To test the blocks, try to follow this guide and test more if you would like or need to. Also when testing themes, testing the blocks like this would is important to do.

• When testing the Splash Block

  • Test with changing the text
  • Test with using colored background
  • Test with using an image
  • Test with using the parallax option

• When testing the sidenote

  • Ensure positioning is correct

• Testing the html, text, and sidenote block * Add enough text in it to make it full * Using lorems ipsum text

• Testing the Columns block * Test with having at 2 or 3 columns.

• Check each style of the quote blocks and see if it works.

Wordpress Themes

An example page that is created to test the themes is a snowball article that contains:

• one of every block
• an additional Splash block with an image and parallax, this is the first block of the page.

Testing the Themes

• Check if the main navbars and footer has no problems and is styled correctly.

• Check if there are conflicting styles, especially anything with h1 or h2 tags.

• Testing the Splash Block

  • Check if parallax works well
  • Test with and without image as background

• Check if Sidenote block works as it is supposed to

  • Make sure it can be seen
  • Make sure it is positioned well
  • Make sure it is on the side

• Make sure the visualization blocks work correctly

  • Check if chloropleth shows up

Wordpress Plugins

• Know which plugins you have installed on Wordpress, other than Snowball.
• If a certain issue happens on all or most themes or block types, than go through your plugins and see which one may have caused it.