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

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John Carroll edited this page Sep 21, 2019 · 7 revisions

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).
  • ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
  • Get the IP address of your dev server with the following steps:
    • Go to 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.
  • Make sure your test and development devices are on the same WIFI network.
  • Visit the IP address at port :8000 on the device/browser.

Note: Remove ALLOWED_HOSTS from dev.py before committing/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.
  • commit your change to tasks.py
  • 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.
**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.
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