Background

IBM Lotus Symphony has fancy sidebar design, with the sidebar user can easy access panels which can be docked to sidebar, it's also help user read set property item easily. In AOO 4.0, the sidebar panel will be migrated. 

Test Overview

Ensure that property side panel e.g. text properties, paragraph properties and slide layout properties, etc... are correctly migrated. 

UI appearance of those side panels should be same as they are designed.

All available property items are functional correctly as in properties dialog.

Property values should be synchronized with the relevant property items in property dialog.

Test Object

Properties side panels in sidebar.

Test Approach

UI appearance of properties panel are follow visual design.

Property items works correctly.

Sidebar values are synchronized with that in relevant property dialog.

Build Availability

Sidebar feature available in sidebar branch stream: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/branches/sidebar/

Installation package available at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Developer_Builds

Note: Binary build will be built by build bot lately and could be found in: http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/index.html 

Schedule

Test case development: 3/1 ~ 3/10

Test case execution: 3/11 ~ 3/31

 Reference link

Sidebar wiki: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar

UX Design: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals

UI Design: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Docked_Task_Pane_Container_-_Pane_Header_User_Interface_Design

Task Panel: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_-_Information_Design