IMPORTANT NOTICE All tests should be conducted with developper debugging set to enabled to verify that no error or warning is displayed during imports. This is especially important because even when it was working in Moodle 1.9 this import format produced a lot of notices when importing some files. WHAT ARE WE TESTING ? Go to Question Bank -> Import. This issue is about fixing the "Blackboard" question import file format. Don't be confused, this issue is just about the "Blackboard" file format. Clicking on the help icon for this format format should dispay : Blackboard format enables questions saved in the Blackboard version 5 "POOL" type export format to be imported.). Don't use the "Blackboard V6+" it's another "Blackboard" file format wich is broken and will be fixed in another traker issue. If you are somewhat lost with all these "Blackboard" formats, so are all Moodle users FIRST PART : VERIFY I DIDN'T BREAK OTHER AREAS The first thing to test is that nothing is broken in questions import/export as this change is not limited to the blackboard format code. So try to import and export various questions using both "Moodle XML format" and "Gift format" file formats to ensure all is working as before. I suggest not to try the other formats as some are still broken at this point. PART TWO FIRST TEST FOR EACH QUESTION TYPE Try to import the sample_blackboard.dat file attached to the present tracker issue ( MDL-34738 ) using the "Blackboard" file format. The import should not produce any warning and cleanly import 6 questions (1 essay, 1 multichoice single answer, 1 multichoice multianswer, 1 fill in the blank (shortanswer), 1 true/false and 1 matching). These are the same questions that are used in phpunit tests. Test that each of these 6 questions is working, that you can edit or preview it without any warning or problem. The matching question is interesting because this type of question was never imported correctly, even in Moodle 1.9. You should get 3 subquestions (cat, frog, newt) and 3 choices (mammal, insect, amphibian) of course insect is a distractor and frog and newt are both amphibians. These are the parts that were not working previously. This part of the test will test that MDL-16479 (marked as duplicate) is fixed. PART THREE TEST WITH A REAL FILE SUBMITTED BY USER Try to import the res00000.dat file attached by Matt Cambell to tracker issue MDL-16479 (it contains 40 questions and should import cleanly). Specially look at the question "Match the following descriptions with the appropriate bone structure." and verify it include 6 subquestions and 6 choices. Periosteum and Medullary cavity are distractors, Diaphysis and Epiphyses are used 2 times each (but I really don't know what all this means ) PART FOUR OTHER FILE SUBMITTED BY USER Go to tracker issue MDL-25492 and download the fmm4k0000.dat file 81kb uploaded January 27th 2011 Try to import this file file using the "Blackboard" file format. Verify no warnings are displayed during import. This file should import 80 questions of various types on something like "marketing?" You are not required to test that each question can be edited and previewed correctly but a few one would be appreciated. PART FIVE : NO IMAGE !! Go to same tracker issue MDL-25492 and download the res00000.dat file 21kb uploaded December 02nd 2010. This file should import 15 questions about "numbers". These questions include ref to images. Open some of these questions for editing. You should see broken images. This is the expected result. We can't do anything to correct this problem because the poster of the file has not included these images. So you should consider the test as passed even with these broken images. But you should no see any oter problem and except the broken images these questions should work without any problem. PART SIX : TEST IMPORT OF A FILE NOT SUITABLE FOR THIS PLUGIN As I said most Moodle users are completely lost between all "Blackboard" formats. So we will now try to import a file of another format. Try importing the res00001.dat attached to the present issue ( MDL-34738 ) using the "Blackboard" file format. You should get an error message "There are no questions in the import file" wich is quite normal as this file is of another Blackboard format (it's not a "POOL" file !) so if you get this error message, please consider this test as passed. At this point you should be as convinced as I am that the Blackboard format is no more broken (wich of course don't means it is bug free !). If not, ask for more sample files