[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar 0.88 --- Testing Day --- Saturday 13th of February

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 03:14 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
>>>> - Testing instructions: As described in the "Feature Status" mail, the
>>>> feature owners have to fill out the "How to test" section in the Feature
>>>> page before the testing day. This should be as detailed as possible,
>>>> imagine what could possibly go wrong and how a tester could test that
>>>> Feature without having the technical background and has not been working
>>>> on that Feature for days, weeks or months.
>>
>> Do we have a way for feature owners to put tests somewhere testers
>> will know to look for them, and do we have a way for testers to file
>> their results? (In other words, do we have a test case system?)
>
> For the moment we only have the "How to test" section in the Feature
> page itself. There is no test case system yet. Actually, as I tried to
> point out in my mail, we weren't that lucky to have a QA team for the
> 0.84-0.88 releases. This testing day is a start to get people involved
> :) Having good QA happening is so important for the quality of our
> "product". There is so much we can do...
>
>> I'm working on getting a semantic mediawiki based test case system
>> (similar to the one we used to have at OLPC) going in a sandbox for
>> the SoaS deployment I'm working with in Boston, but that may not be up
>> in time, nor appropriate for longer-term results like Saturday's test
>> session. I suppose that in a pinch we could always list everything on
>> the wiki (I'd be happy to come in an hour early and set this up if
>> needed) but if we're going to be doing more QA activities down the
>> line, we might someday want a system that scales and is more
>> searchable. Not a vital-to-solve-now problem, but a definite "someday
>> we'll have to solve this" problem, in case anyone has any quick ideas.
>>
>> --Mel
>
> Absolutely, agreed! I think the test cases we had at OLPC would be a
> good start. The future QA-team would probably take the information from
> the Feature page and create full fledged Test cases.
>
> And of course - there should be a smoke test...
>
> Thanks for your thoughts,
>    Simon


Is the intention just to test just Fructose or also Glucose? I am at
the point where more broad testing of the new Turtle Art (Glucose)
would be very helpful.

regards.

-walter
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