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Timeout adjustable

Supplemental requirement

A mechanism exists to extend the time limit before timeout, or the time limit can be disabled.

Applies when time limit(s) exist.

Except when the time limit is essential.

Tests

Extend or disable at timeout

Procedure

For each time limit:

  1. Check if there is a way to disable it.
  2. Wait for the timeout.
  3. Check that before the timeout, an option is given to extend the time limit.

Expected results

Key Terms

essential to outcome

always necessary to achieve the same result

If something is essential to the outcome then: If it were removed, the information or functionality of the content would be fundamentally changed, and the information and functionality cannot be achieved in another way that would conform