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Today there’s a major voluntary effort between the WordPress developers and the wider WordPress user community to test for and hopefully repair bugs in the upcoming 2.0.4 and 2.1 releases of WordPress.

Here’s my contribution. My thanks to leftjustified and the other bug-hunters, without whom all this would have been far less fun. You guys rock!

Validation of Administrative Interface Pages

This is a major task as the adminitrative interface is both (relatively) complex and heavily used by everyone.

Strategy

rboren asked for specific testing on single quotes and their correct escaping through the system, so a lot of my test data is going to contain capricious apostrophes and other tricky entities.

Set up local testing blog from 2.0.4

paul@kubuntu ~/public_html> svn export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.0 wp-bughunt/
Exported revision 3970.
Created database wp_bughunt and configured the exported WordPress accordingly.

Install WordPress

/wp-admin/install.php

Intro: PASS
First step: PASS
Enter weblog title WordPress ‘Bughunt’, by Libertus, e-mail address paul@localhost. ERROR: the e-mail address isn’t correct. Change e-mail address to libertus@libertini.net and continue.
Second step: PASS

/wp-login.php

BUG Big red error about username field being empty. Well, I just arrived at the page, so that’s no surprise.
Login screen: PASS

/wp-admin/

Dashboard: PASS

Manage Interface

These tests were run immediately post-install, with installed demo data only.

Manage Posts – /wp-admin/edit.php

FAIL due to bug #2857, patch locally applied.

Manage Files – /wp-admin/templates.php

BUG, Fx, if file not found (i.e. .htaccess) the warning message background bleeds into the right-hand file list
BUG with zero-length writable .htaccess
Validation PASS (tried with a couple of files, both read-only and writable)

Manage Comments – /wp-admin/edit-comments.php

PASS

Manage Categories – /wp-admin/categories.php

PASS

Manage Pages – /wp-admin/edit-pages.php

PASS

Moderation – /wp-admin/moderation.php

I placed the demo comment into moderation. FAIL Error Line 56 column 329: character “[" is not allowed in the value of attribute "id". ..."radio" name="comment[1]” id=”comment[1]-approve” value=”approve” /> <label f

Links Interface

These tests were run immediately post-install, with installed demo data only.

Manage Links – /wp-admin/link-manager.php

FAIL – Delete links – Error duplicate specification of attribute “class”.

Add Link – /wp-admin/link-add.php

FAIL element id “friend” is already defined

Link Categories – /wp-admin/link-categories.php

FAIL – delete link – an attribute specification must start with a name or name token (nonce-related again)
FAIL – form without action

Import Blogroll – /wp-admin/link-import.php

FAIL – multiple errors, elements out of place or not allowed in context, missing end p tag

Write Interface

These tests were run immediately post-install, with installed demo data only.

Write Post – /wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1

Rich editor is enabled. FAIL – multiple errors.
Warning Line 152 column 95: character “<” is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data. …undefined” || tinyMCE.configs.length < 1 ) edToolbar();</script>
Error Line 155 column 91: document type does not allow element “p” here. …content” tabindex=”2″ id=”content”><p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your firs
Error Line 203 column 30: there is no attribute “border”. <iframe id=”uploading” border=”0″ src=”inline-uploading.php?action=view&post
Warning Line 250 column 54: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “preview”. …tp://localhost/~paul/wp-bughunt/?p=1&preview=true” width=”100%” height=”600″

Write Post – /wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1

Rich editor disabled. FAIL – mostly similar errors to previous.

Write Post – edit post title to contain apostrophes

Manage Pages – /wp-admin/edit-pages.php

PASS

Write Page – /wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=302

FAIL – as well as the post editing errors, id “pageparent” is redefined and there is a mismatched div tag

Presentation Interface

Themes – /wp-admin/themes.php

PASS

Theme Editor – /wp-admin/theme-editor.php

PASS

Default Theme Options – Header Image and Color – /wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php

FAIL – multiple failures, br tag out of place, unescaped Javascript, forms without action attribute, form with uppercase POST method

Plugins Interface

Plugins – /wp-admin/plugins.php

No plugins active: PASS, Akismet activated: FAIL – misplaced <style> tag (probably the “you need to enter your key” admin notice), Akismet deactivated: PASS

Plugin Editor – /wp-admin/plugin-editor.php

PASS (both read-only and writable)

Users Interface

Your Profile – /wp-admin/profile.php

FAIL – end tag for table which is not finished

Authors & Users

FAIL – element id “adduser” already defined

Attempted to demote sole admin user to Subscriber

Operationally correct – admin notice appears. FAIL – element id “message” already defined

Options Interface

General – /wp-admin/options-general.php

PASS

Writing – /wp-admin/options-writing.php

PASS

Reading – /wp-admin/options-reading.php

PASS

Discussion – /wp-admin/options-discussion.php

PASS

Permalinks – /wp-admin/options-permalink.php

PASS

Miscellaneous – /wp-admin/options-misc.php

PASS

Import Interface

Not used much, but still should be valid markup.

Import – /wp-admin/import.php

PASS

TextPattern – /wp-admin/admin.php?import=textpattern

Page 1: FAIL – labels for non-existent IDs

DotClear – /wp-admin/admin.php?import=dotclear

Page 1: FAIL – labels for non-existed IDs
Cut and paste detected!

Movable Type – /wp-admin/admin.php?import=mt

Page 1: FAIL – uppercase POST, unescaped ampersands in URLs,

LiveJournal – /wp-admin/admin.php?import=livejournal

Page 1: FAIL – uppercase POST

Blogger

Page 1: PASS

RSS – /wp-admin/admin.php?import=rss

Page 1: FAIL – uppercase POST
Page 2: PASS

Bugs To Report

1. E-mail address paul@localhost is valid.
2. Login screen displays field data error message on entry
3. Warning div for “file not found” during Manage Files bleeds into file list
4. Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /home/paul/public_html/wp-bughunt/wp-admin/templates.php on line 80 when editing zero-length file
5. Manage Posts – Unapprove/Approve comment link – unapprove worked fine, but re-approving the same comment fails with Warning: gethostbyaddr() [function.gethostbyaddr]: Address is not a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address in /home/paul/public_html/wp-bughunt/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 338 Demo comment from installation has no IP address
6. Add user – form is blanked if a mistake is made (such as a missing e-mail address) after submission Trac #2905