[SoaS] SoaS test cases: Quick way to test /Open Office.ods Spreadsheet of tested Activities in Mirabelle 501 USB- Updated

[Thomas C Gilliard]

I am attaching an Open Office.ods Spreadsheet of tested Activities in 
Mirabelle 501 USB
(see method used below)
This should include all of the most recent versions of activities listed on

http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/

Plus some downloaded from announcements on 
sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org and other sources.
There about 140 on it.*
(The spreadsheet is sorted in alphabetical order for easy lookup of the 
activity number on this link)

Please Feel free to use this to help us test applications.
I have only done a preliminary inspection for starting and shutdown for 
these applications
in Mirabelle 0.88.0 sugar. I also have a column with quick comments...

Tom Gilliard
satellit
*Spreadsheet is Updated thru 05/03/2010 7AM PST


Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> Mel:
>
> I just discovered a great way to TEST activities with Mirabelle.
>
> Run them from a second stick.
> They do not have to be installed or downloaded at all.
>
> I am using a 2nd USB stick with 111.xo files on it downloaded from ASLO
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLO-xo.tar.gz
> loaded into a usb slot of a running USB of soas-i386-20100501.07.iso 
> created USB
Note: this USB is not a live USB. It was installed with livinst command 
to a 4GB Firefly USB
from a liveusb-iso-to-disk persistent 2GB USB.
so it is ext4 based.
I used an ACER Aspire ONE laptop 532h with 2 USB's
Boot 4GB USB
ASLO.xo 1 GB USB with all of the .xo files on it.
>
> It is also possible to download them directly from
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/ and load them onto a stick,
> (2GB seems to be sufficient)
>
> I have developed a Open Office Spreadsheet on my PC which includes the 
> name and activity number of each of them
> I can sort this by name/activity number/ plus compatibility info for 
> 0.82-0.88 sugar.
> I am now entering testing  and compatibility info into this 
> spreadsheet as I test.
>
> I think that this method of testing may also work for Blueberry and 
> Strawberry and maybe even the XO-1 (140py)
> (I will test this later)
> This technique  depends on being able to see the 2nd USB and start 
> applications from it.
>
> I open the 2nd USB in the frame and then select the journal.
> The 2nd USB then appears in left corner under the frame and when 
> selected, displays each activity.xo.
> these can be started by clicking on them.
> Each activity on the 2nd USB can be started, tested, and run this way, 
> without loading on the soas live USB.
>
> Very Quick Usefull way to test. I hope others can adopt it also.
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
>
>
>
> Mel Chua wrote:
>> http://blog.melchua.com/2010/05/01/soas-test-cases-we-can-haz-them/ 
>> for more details and current test results: 
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle. The short 
>> version is that everything's working except collaboration (which has 
>> a known fix, see below) and Read (not because the Activity doesn't 
>> work, but because there's nothing to read with it and it's therefore 
>> hard to test/quickly-start-using).
>>
>> In terms of getting Mirabelle ready to go out the door, right now we 
>> need:
>>
>> * this telepathy-gabble update, 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/telepathy-gabble-0.9.11-1.fc13, 
>> to be pushed to the Fedora updates repo – it has +3 karma but is 
>> still in testing, and must be pushed before Tuesday; without it, 
>> collaboration in SoaS does not work at all.
>>
>>   * download/install instructions for burning the image to a stick, 
>> for every major operating system, that can be followed by a classroom 
>> teacher without technical expertise. We know the Blueberry install 
>> instructions 
>> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry) do not fit 
>> this criteria, and would love for someone – probably a non-engineer – 
>> to help rewrite them. Install instructions will either go on 
>> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads or be linked to from 
>> this page.
>>
>> * quotes, stories, screenshots, and photos (CC-BY, 
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, please) from Sugar/SoaS 
>> users on what they’ve done with the platform, cool things they’ve 
>> tried, how this fits into a classroom, and so forth, to be used on 
>> the spin webpage and related links – bonus points if you can talk 
>> about contributing to SoaS as well as using it!
>>
>> --Mel
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>>   
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