QA/tests for new Global and Policy-guidance search sitemaps

[johnnyporkchops]

Summary

QA for Global Sitemap and Policy Guidance search.

Related issues/PRs

Issues:

• Inventory items in guidance search #5782
• Changes to Policy and Guidance search before transitioning to sitemaps for global search #5595
• Develop www.fec.gov sitemap #5522
• Document search.gov xml sitemap requirements  #5501

PR:

• [WIP] Sitemaps #5689
• [WIP] Test sitemap on dev #5735

Completion criteria

• Brief meeting with content team to clarify the new process for Policy guidance documents and webpages.
• Test/practice adding new document for Policy guidance search
  • Content team member tests uploading a new document to Wagtail on dev space.
  • Add the document to the sitemap_pdf.xml and update the xml in Wagtail.
  • Developers test moving document to 'policy-guidance/' folder on dev S3.
  • Confirm that this new item is reflected in Policy guidance search on dev
• Test/practice adding new webpage for Policy guidance search
  • Content team member tests creating a new policy-guidance webpage, aliasing this page under the updates/guidance-search/ parent on dev space.
  • Add the page to the sitemap_html.xml and update the xml in Wagtail.
  • Confirm that this new item is reflected in Policy guidance search on dev
• Content team and developers confirm searches using the global site search box and the policy-guidance search box return expected results
• Developers confirm that sitemaps are indexed as expected by search.gov
• Step-by-step of new procedure is added to Content team's documentation (issue created Update documentation for search-sitemaps #5842)

Tech steps or considerations

• Content team will reach out to departments with new URLS for policy-guidance documents and update links in source materials for new URL paths.
• Content team will put in ticket to redirect all the pdfs to the new locations in proxy (don't need to redirect aliased html pages)
• The feature/5572-test-sitemap-on-dev branch must be pushed to dev space to test
• May have to ask for search.gov to manually kickoff an indexing outside of usual schedule to reflect new pages or docs in search
• Hard refresh/clear browser history/new incognito window to make sure test searches reflect latest state of index
• Beware that the link from the sidebar on https://dev.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/ that says "Search guidance documents" is an absolute link and will take you to www -- make sure your on dev(threw me off a couple of times)

Future work

Launch sitemaps. Separate ticket to come...

• Add new directories to prod Wagtail and S3
• Use dev-testing PR or make a fresh one? Original PR is too divergent at this point.

[johnnyporkchops]

Extensive QA with devs and content team (for both global and policy-guidance) and coordinated tests with search.gov in this test PR confirm that the configuration and search results are working as expected.
We are ready to launch in production. Issue: #5775