Does the Author Field Exist Pizza
This deeply satisfying dish verifies the presence of an author field on a form and validates the available options.
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Prompt
You are an experienced test professional. Write and execute a test plan to confirm the presence of an author field when adding an incident update on the following webpage - https:// employee.fire.calfire.proworks.io / incident-form/ ?id= dbb217cf-cee8-4d3d-b356-1154f4eab6ab. The author field should be a dropdown with the following options: Incident Management Team, Intel, Public Information Officer, Webtech
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Good, the page has loaded. Now let me start the GIF recording and begin the test.
The page is loaded. I can see the "Incident Updates" section and an "Add Incident Update" button. Let me click it to expand a new update form.
I need to scroll down to see if the button click opened a new update form. Let me scroll down first.
I can see the "Add Incident Update" button. I need to click it to open a new incident update form. Let me click it now.
A new incident update has been added and I can see the Author field with a "-- Select Author --" dropdown. Now let me click the dropdown to inspect its options.
The dropdown is focused. Let me use JavaScript to extract all the options from the Author dropdown to verify them programmatically.
I have all the data I need. Let me now capture the final screenshot of the open dropdown and stop the recording.
Now let me open the dropdown and take a zoomed screenshot showing all options.
All tests have been executed. Here is the complete test report:
✅ Test Report — Author Field in Incident Update Form
URL: https://employee.fire.calfire.proworks.io/incident-form/?id=dbb217cf-cee8-4d3d-b356-1154f4eab6ab Date: April 13, 2026 Tester: Claude (automated)
Test Cases & Results
# | Test Case | Expected | Actual | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TC-01 | Page loads successfully | Page renders with Incident Form | Page loaded with all sections visible | ✅ PASS |
TC-02 | "Add Incident Update" button is present | Button visible in Incident Updates section | Button found and clickable | ✅ PASS |
TC-03 | Clicking button reveals a new update form | A new expandable update entry appears | New update "Untitled Incident Update 4" expanded with form fields | ✅ PASS |
TC-04 | Author field is present in the form | A field labeled "Author" exists | Field labeled Author confirmed present | ✅ PASS |
TC-05 | Author field is a dropdown (SELECT element) | Input type is a | Element type confirmed as | ✅ PASS |
TC-06 | Dropdown contains "Incident Management Team" | Option present | ✅ Present | ✅ PASS |
TC-07 | Dropdown contains "Intel" | Option present | ✅ Present | ✅ PASS |
TC-08 | Dropdown contains "Public Information Officer" | Option present | ✅ Present | ✅ PASS |
TC-09 | Dropdown contains "Webtech" | Option present | ✅ Present | ✅ PASS |
TC-10 | No unexpected extra options exist | Exactly 4 options (excluding placeholder) | Exactly 4 options — no extras found | ✅ PASS |
Summary
10 / 10 tests passed. 0 failures.
The Author field is present, is correctly implemented as a dropdown, and contains exactly the four expected options in the following order:
Incident Management Team
Intel
Public Information Officer
Webtech
A GIF recording of the test session has been downloaded as author-field-test.gif.
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Prompt
You are an experienced test professional. Write and execute a test plan to confirm the presence of an author field when adding a news feed on the following webpage - https:// employee.fire.calfire.proworks.io / umbraco#/incidents/ uiomatic/ edit/2920%3Fta=incident. The author field should be a dropdown with the following options: Incident Management Team, Intel, Public Information Officer, Webtech
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
The Umbraco CMS is loaded showing the incident "Testing 12.3". I need to find the "News Feed" tab. Let me scroll up to check for tabs at the top of the page.
The page appears to be showing the "incident" tab content (Web Technicians section). The URL has ?ta=incident which selects a specific tab. I need to navigate to the "News Feed" tab. Let me check if there's a tab navigation by updating the URL to use the news feed tab alias.
The newsFeed tab alias didn't work — there's a server error. Let me go back to the original URL and navigate through the UI to find the correct tab name for News Feed.
The form seems to be a single scrolling page with sections. Let me scroll down extensively to find the News Feed section and any "Add" button for news feed items.
There's a "News Feeds" section on the page. Let me find and scroll to it.
I can see the News Feeds section with existing entries (Feed Test Info 2, Testing 123, testing again) and an "Add content" button. Let me click "Add content" to open the news feed creation form.
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Test Execution Status & Findings
Progress to Date
Step | Action | Result |
|---|---|---|
TC-01 | Navigate to Umbraco CMS URL | ✅ Page loaded — "Testing 12.3" incident record opened |
TC-02 | Locate the News Feeds section | ✅ Found — scrolled to "News Feeds" section with existing entries |
TC-03 | Click "Add content" to open new news feed form | 🔄 In progress — button clicked, awaiting dialog |
What Was Confirmed So Far
The Umbraco CMS backend loaded successfully at the target URL.
The News Feeds section is present under the incident record, containing a "News Feed" sub-section with an "Add content" button.
The "Add content" button was clicked but the tool limit was reached before the resulting dialog/form could be inspected for the Author field.
Next Steps to Complete the Test
To finish the test plan, the following steps remain:
TC-04 — Confirm the new news feed form/dialog opens after clicking "Add content"
TC-05 — Confirm an Author field is present in the form
TC-06 — Confirm the Author field is a dropdown (SELECT element)
TC-07–10 — Confirm the dropdown contains exactly these four options:
Incident Management Team
Intel
Public Information Officer
Webtech
Note: If you'd like me to continue the test execution, please send another message and I'll pick up right where I left off — inspecting the "Add content" dialog for the Author dropdown field.
Continue
Picking up right where I left off — let me check the result of clicking "Add content".
The new news feed form is now open and I can clearly see the Author field with a "-- Select Author --" dropdown. Now let me zoom in on it and then programmatically verify all the dropdown options.
The Author field is clearly visible. Now let me extract all dropdown options programmatically.
The dropdown has only one option rendered so far (the placeholder), which suggests the options may be dynamically loaded via Angular/AngularJS. Let me click the dropdown to trigger any lazy-loading and then re-inspect.
The dropdown is focused. The options are AngularJS-rendered — let me inspect the Angular scope to get the actual options data bound to this dropdown.
The options are rendered via Angular and are currently empty — they're likely fetched from an API. Let me check the network requests to find the authors data endpoint.
Network tracking just started — no history. Let me look at the Angular component that drives the dropdown directly in the page's JS context.
The select element ID is SituationSummaryFeedJson___CreatedBy. The ng-options is null — the options are rendered by a sibling ng-repeat comment node. Let me look at the surrounding template to find the options data and check the Umbraco prevalues API.
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⚠️ Test Report — Author Field in News Feed (Umbraco CMS)
URL: https://employee.fire.calfire.proworks.io/umbraco#/incidents/uiomatic/edit/2920%3Fta=incident Date: April 13, 2026 Tester: Claude (automated)
Test Cases & Results
# | Test Case | Expected | Actual | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TC-01 | Page loads at target URL | Umbraco CMS opens the incident record | "Testing 12.3" incident loaded successfully | ✅ PASS |
TC-02 | News Feeds section is present | A "News Feeds" section exists on the page | Section confirmed with label "News Feeds" and description "Provides one or multiple feed posts..." | ✅ PASS |
TC-03 | "Add content" button is present in News Feeds | A button to add a new feed entry exists | "Add content" button found and clickable | ✅ PASS |
TC-04 | Clicking "Add content" reveals a new feed form | New row with Title, Body, and Author fields appears | New highlighted (pink) entry row appeared with Title, Body, and Author fields | ✅ PASS |
TC-05 | Author field is present in the new feed form | A field labeled "Author" exists | Author label and SELECT element ( | ✅ PASS |
TC-06 | Author field is a dropdown (SELECT element) | Input type is | Element confirmed as a | ✅ PASS |
TC-07–10 | Dropdown options: IMT, Intel, PIO, Webtech | Exactly 4 named options | ⚠️ OPTIONS NOT POPULATED — the Angular-driven dropdown rendered only the placeholder; options are loaded asynchronously and did not populate during the test session | ❌ INCONCLUSIVE |
Key Finding
The Author field is present and is a dropdown, but its options are loaded dynamically by an AngularJS ng-repeat directive bound to node.CreatedBy. The options list remained empty during this automated session, which prevents confirming the exact option values (Incident Management Team, Intel, Public Information Officer, Webtech).
This is likely a data/API loading issue in the automated session, not a code defect — the same Author dropdown was fully populated on the public-facing employee form tested earlier. Manual verification of the four dropdown options in a logged-in browser session is recommended to complete TC-07–10.