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\title{Test procedures for predefined roles in BASE 2.0}

\author{Martin Svensson, Nicklas}
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This document defines a procedure for testing that
the predefined roles can perform their work as intended. The main
purpose is to weed out permission problems resulting from:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Incorrect permissions installed by installation program
\item Bugs in the permission handling in the core
\item Incorrect handling of permission in the web client
\end{enumerate}

Here is a summary of the test procedure:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Always start with a fresh installation

\item The root user creates an administrator

\item The administrator creates a group and three other users. One 
power user, one user and one guest.

\item The power user creates item related to the project management:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item A project
  \item Protocols, one for each type of action: sampling, extraction, etc.
  \item Hardware and software
  \item Some annotation types
  \item Import file formats for reporters: plates, print maps and raw data
  \item LIMS information - plate type, plates, array design, array batch and array slide
  \end{itemize}
  
\item The user creates items related to an actual experiment:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Biomaterials: biosources, samples, extracts, etc.
  \item Experiment: hybridizations, scans, images, raw bioassays
  \end{itemize}
  
\item Both the user and the guest then do some analysis:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Create a root bioassay set
  \item Filter the bioassay set
  \item Run a normalization plugin
  \item Check the result by listing and plotting the data
  \end{itemize} 

\end{enumerate}

These tests can also be run in automated mode by test programs. This will of 
course not test the web client, but are useful if one quickly needs to do the
parts of the test and then continue with for example the user tests on the
web. To run the tests you must first compile the test programs with "ant test".

Then execute: ./test.sh roles <cmds>

where <cmds> is a list specifying which tests to run. The following values
can be used:

\begin{itemize}
\item all: Run all tests
\item root: Run the root user tests
\item admin: Run the administrator tests
\item power: Run the power user tests
\item user: Run the regular user tests
\item guest: Run the guest user tests
\end{itemize}



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