Online or Offline??? Gmail or Gtalk doesn't matter

This is a strange behavior I observed while I was chatting online with my friend.

Application Used: Gtalk and Gmail chat

Reproducibility: 100%

Machine specific: No

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I expect people chatting with me to reply within 5-10 seconds after I send them a message.

I also promise to reply instantly unless I'm not infront of my monitor.

It so happened that I sent my friend a message and I did not get any reply for a minute.

I got irritated by him not responding and I started banging the keys on my keyboard.

Infact I banged only one key - the DOT '.'

I pressed the '.' (DOT without quotes) and pressed enter key.

This continued for 15-20 times continuously.

Then these messages were displayed on Gmail chat window(pop up) and Gtalk application respectively.

As you can see on both the screenshots, the user is still Online indicated by the Green dot against the name.

And the message reads: "The user did not receive your chat" or "The user's email is offline and can't receive messages right now"

I liked this bug... Use of emotions helped me find this bug.

I don't really care if this is fixed or not but the behavior definitely brought a smile on my face.

:)

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Paired Testing at a distance - Part 1

Date: 01 August 2009 Saturday

Time: 2030hrs IST

Mission: To test the website http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php and find bugs.

Time Limit: 2030hrs to 2100hrs IST.

2100hrs to 2130hrs IST: Discussion of bugs.

2130hrs to 2200hrs IST: Prepare the blog post.

Testers: Ajay Balamurugadas and Parimala Shankaraiah

Browser: Google Chrome v2.0.172.37

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First I planned to collect some colorblind images.

Googled 'color blind images' for Images.

* Entered the URL in the Google Chrome address bar and pressed enter key.

Webpage was loaded.

* Clicked on 'Run Vischeck!' button without entering any URL. A pop up appeared. Ok, Test passed.

* Entered some random characters in the URL field. Error message was displayed.

"There seemed to be a problem with that URL- please try another."

Hmmm, nice message but the URL displayed: "http://vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php?error=There+seemed+to+be+a+problem+with+that+URL-+please+try+another."

* I wanted to check what would happen if I typed some custom error. So, I replaced the text 'There+seemed+to+be+a+problem+with+that+URL-+please+try+another.' with some text and the new text was displayed on the webpage. This seemed to a major security vulnerability as a coder/hacker might take advantage of this.

* My first Test URL with a valid colorblind image: 'http://brainden.com/images/color-blindness-test-4.jpg'. Clicked on 'Run Vischeck!'
button.

Following text and hyperlinks were displayed.

* Clicked on the image link to open in a new window: Opened the same image.

Clicked on the 'Deuteranope simulation' link to open in a new window:

A window full of JUNK characters was displayed.

The URL of the webpage was: http://vischeck.homeip.net/uploads/124914450524078/

* This gave me idea to change the number after the uploads/. I typed some random number. File not found 404 error was displayed.

* Removed the number part of the URL http://vischeck.homeip.net/uploads/124914450524078/ and pressed enter key.

Result:

Then clicked on some of those folders and some random files were displayed.

* Appended '/?', '/', '?', error=.

Sometimes, only some part of the webpage was displayed.

* Also googled for large size images and tested them.

End of Testing. Time 2106hrs IST.

What could have been better:

I feel lot of time was wasted on testing the "Append text after error=".

Please feel free to comment, critique, suggest, question, discuss.

This is just the first report and intentionally titled Part 1.

More to follow...

Please find the report uploaded at http://tinyurl.com/ll78n5. The report is intentionally left as it is without any modifications.

Please find my testing partner's report and blog post at : http://curioustester.blogspot.com/2009/08/paired-testing-at-distance-part-1.html

My special thanks to Parimala. :)

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