Test candidate profile pages

[patphongs]

After the refactor of the candidate profile pages to fix 404's for future cycle candidates without committees, we need to test to make sure candidate profile pages are all functioning. Please test in our staging environment: https://fec-stage-proxy.app.cloud.gov/data/candidates

1 known issue with 404 on past candidates with no financial activity in 2018 has already been logged: #2343

Completion criteria:

• Test future and past House candidates
• Test future and past Senate candidates
• Test future and past Presidential candidates
• Ensure that future cycles show up for candidates who are running in future election cycles

[llienfec]

@patphongs I think this is a problem with terminated committees. After we got off our call, I tested 3 more and all had 404s. I'll test other committees, but for now, that's where I'd focus my time.

Here's a link to my API pull of terminated committees. Each has a candidate ID number so you can test in staging:
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committees/?sort=name&api_key=DEMO_KEY&page=1&committee_type=H&per_page=20&filing_frequency=T

[patphongs]

2017-2018 data is displayed for Obama's presidential candidate profile even though the election year is 2012: https://fec-stage-proxy.app.cloud.gov/data/candidate/P80003338/

[llienfec]

So far, the pages that are 404ing are terminated committees. I still haven't tested specials. @patphongs tested some candidates where their committees changed from House to Senate.

House testing

• Past House, terminated:
  Duncan Hunter H2CA42023 – 404
  Wilbert Tauzin H0LA03018 - 404
• Past House, still filing no activity – Clint Moore H4TX02082 – works
• Past House, still filing & has activity - Wilbert Tauzin H4LA03069 – works
• Current house – Veronica Escobar H8TX16109 - works
• Having trouble finding a future House to test. This is an edge case.

Senate testing

• Past Senate, terminated:
  Walter Mondale S2MN00019 – 404
  Robert Dole S4KS00010 – 404
• Past Senate, still filing no activity – John McMullen S8VT00059 – works
• Past Senate, still filing & has activity – Leonard Britton S0VT00114 – works
• Current Senate – Sherrod Brown S6OH00163 – works
• 2020 Future Senate – John Cornyn S2TX00106 – works
• 2022 Future Senate – Todd Young S6IN00191 - works

President testing

• Past presidential, terminated – Walter Mondale P40000267 – 404
• Past presidential, still filing – Mitt Romney P80003353 – works
• 2020 presidential, filing:
  Donald TrumpP80001571 – works
  Hart Cunningham P00006825 - works

[llienfec]

@patphongs Do you still need more information or is this enough research?

[llienfec]

Testing is related to #2343

[patphongs]

Thanks for researching @llienfec, we will use some of these testing results and ideas when we create a new testing after the code is fixed up more