Financial Times Website Accreditation

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The UK energy crisis is burden of war

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FT Alphaville

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Journey

Scope of Testing

Journey 1

1. Homepage: https://www.ft.com/
2. EU launches Brexit legal action against UK (Article barrier): https://www.ft.com/content/80670e39-1b23-4714-a945-c3b0e3dd9b2f
3. Manage Cookies (Modal): https://www.ft.com/preferences/manage-cookies

Journey 2

1. Sign in: https://accounts.ft.com/login
2. You choose the topics, we deliver the news (My FT tour): https://www.ft.com/myft
3. Streaming services (Streaming) - Retracted: https://www.ft.com/stream/48cfb3f7-987a-4c22-85cb-a380301cbcfd
4. FT Digital Edition (Newspaper): https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper
5. World (World section):https://www.ft.com/world
6. UK (UK Section): https://www.ft.com/world-uk
7. Companies: https://www.ft.com/companies
8. Technology: https://www.ft.com/technology
9. Cryptofinance: https://www.ft.com/cryptofinance
10. Markets: https://www.ft.com/markets
11. Climate Capital: https://www.ft.com/climate-capital
12. Opinion: https://www.ft.com/opinion
13. Work & Careers: https://www.ft.com/work-careers
14. Life & Arts: https://www.ft.com/life-arts
15. HTSI (How to spend it): https://www.ft.com/htsi
16. FT Alphaville: https://www.ft.com/alphaville
17. Moral Money: https://www.ft.com/moral-money
18. Letters to the Editor (Letters): https://www.ft.com/letters
19. Tim Bradshaw (Author pages): https://www.ft.com/tim-bradshaw
20. The UK energy crisis is a burden of war (Opinion): https://www.ft.com/content/441bb5c8-4afe-4463-9320-6c64731f7170
21. Special Reports: https://www.ft.com/reports
22. Visual and data journalism (Interactive): https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
23. Coronavirus: https://www.ft.com/coronavirusfree
24. Revolut under pressure from auditors after UK regulators find flaws (Normal article): https://www.ft.com/content/6e7bca1a-f43a-45f1-a684-1f6cf1415e2c
25. Tesla will ‘try a little advertising’, Elon Musk says (Elon Musk article): https://www.ft.com/content/259a825f-bca3-4e8c-bd22-5b9cfeadf0a2
26. How history caught up with my Russian academic friends (Article with toppers): https://www.ft.com/content/6153f76e-eb8c-494b-8f81-123617f5dddb
27. A year under the Taliban (Package Landing page): https://www.ft.com/content/e8554607-38bb-4fb5-8c8a-ae642cb4d9b3
28. The village wedding caught in the Taliban’s battle for Kabul (Package Article page): https://www.ft.com/content/c47f75e1-c822-4bb0-9d2b-18c808ee571c
29. FT live news: https://www.ft.com/content/bd734008-9355-42f3-a0dc-38988d5a9a67
30. Loneliness and me (Free to read): https://www.ft.com/content/408afd90-7f25-49b9-a10d-253c5b29e743
31. My FT Feed (My FT): https://www.ft.com/myft/following
32. My FT Topic View: https://www.ft.com/myft/following
33. Topics you follow (My FT Manage Topics): https://www.ft.com/myft/manage-topics
34. Saved Articles (My FT Saved Articles): https://www.ft.com/myft/saved-articles
35. My FT Explore: https://www.ft.com/myft/explore
36. Newsletters: https://www.ft.com/newsletters
37. Contact Preferences: https://www.ft.com/myft/alerts