[Sugar-devel] [Testing] Fedora Sugar Test Day - Test case content, location

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:

> On March 22 there will be a Sugar test day for Fedora 17.  This means that the Fedora community in general will be gathering to look at Sugar and see what issues we have close to the end of the Sugar 0.96 cycle.
> 

March 22nd is a Thursday.  Is the March 22nd date for Sugar Test Day set in stone?  Picking a Thursday is a bit unfortunate because a lot of volunteers with experience of Sugar will either be at their jobs or school.  Now if it was on a weekend....

Robert H.

> To help keep track of what was found and tell people where to look, we ideally should have test cases for the volunteers willing to help us that day that may be unfamiliar with Sugar.  But the first question I have is where these test cases should be hosted.
> 
> Historically OLPC has tried to use their wiki with some semantic markup to store test cases & results for both the XO and Sugar.  But this setup is not easily searched, is prone to caching old information unless the Wiki pages are "purged", and can get confusing if you have to support later test plans and/or updated test case versions.
> 
> Fedora also stores test cases in their Wiki, and links them to packages in Bodhi to help in verification.  They take a simpler approach to their Wiki design than what OLPC uses.   Fedora supposedly was to move to a test case management system called Nitrate to match Red Hat, but to date this has not happened.
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> A year or so ago I had a wild idea to create a system where test cases and results could be exchanged so Ubuntu users could see how a program worked in Fedora, what upstream saw, etc.  But this has yet to materialize beyond a few sketches.
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> So we need to come up with a location & design that has a set of test cases & results that everyone (including Ubuntu, etc.) can consider authoritative & up-to-date for testing Sugar, and ideally support test cases for XO hardware, the school server, etc. as well.
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