Testing a dev branch on iPhone, Internet Explorer Windows, Android

To test a development branch on iPhone, Windows/Internet Explorer, Android or any other browser/device combination unavailable on your Mac, you can either: 1) Point your device/browser to your development server or 2) Deploy branch to feature space and test there.

1) Point your device/browser to your development server:

• Checkout the branch you want to test.
• Temporarily add ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*'] to fec/fec/settings/dev.py
• Switch to a Wi-Fi network (that isn't the internal network).
• Get the IP address of your dev server by System Preferences > Network > Choose the Wi-Fi network on the left > Click Advanced… in the lower right > Choose TCP/IP tab. The IPv4 Address is your dev server's IP.
• ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
• Make sure your test and development devices are on the same network.
• Visit the IP address at port :8000 on the device/browser.

Remove ALLOWED_HOSTS from dev.py before pushing any changes.

2) Deploy to feature

Another alternative is to push a test version of this branch to the feature space and visit it on the device/browser you want to test.

• BEFORE PUSHING TO FEATURE SPACE, send a message in Slack to @here, to make sure someone else does not have something already deployed to the feature space that they are currently using for testing.
• Create a test copy of the branch you want to test.
• Uncomment line #79 of /tasks.py and edit the branch name in that line to your testing branch.
• git push -u origin [your testing branch name]
• Wait for CircleCI to complete the build successfully .
• Visit https://fec-feature-cms.app.cloud.gov/ on the device/browser combination you want to test.

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**Note:** Internet Explorer 11 may behave differently depending on the devices Windows build-pack and other configurations, so it is important to test several different devices. For example, the configuration of FEC-issued MS Surface tablets has shown to have IE 11 issues that other Windows 7/10 environments might not.