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

[Samuel Greenfeld]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> On 18 February 2012 21:04, Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz> wrote:
> > On the topic of tracking testing, we have looked at a number of options
> here
> > in NZ and I think Australia also looked at a number of options.
>
> We've recently hired a software test engineer and are developing a
> workflow for testing. We're also receiving advice from experienced
> enterprise testers (who are sympathetic to open source).
>

Perhaps we should schedule a meeting/introductions to coordinate?


> The main piece of advice I'm getting is that we need a good test case
> management system that allows for linking with defects. The links need
> to be able to be tracked, searched and sorted. This lets us quickly
> understand the relationships between the tests and defects, and also
> identify which defects are more disruptive.
>

In general the OLPC situation is a lot like the Fedora situation.  The
dedicated, often full-time testers may prefer full-featured test case
management systems, while the rest of the community tends to not see why
one is required.

In my case I've been told to use a spreadsheet.

Even at the Wiki level test cases are often seen as excess.  It supposedly
was proposed to Fedora's steering committee (FESCo) that all packages
should be submitted by packagers with information that could be used to
build test cases.  But this became only optional.  Similarly, there is a
"proven tester" status in Fedora for testers who read and agreed to basic
guidelines.  But that status was recently stripped of any meaning because
too few testers in general were testing packages, and requiring proven
tester feedback for critical-path updates was leading to significant delays.


In regards to Nitrate, there is a bit of history within Red Hat which
explains why Fedora is considering that route [1].  Red Hat used to use
Testopia, but when Fedora legal looked at it they did not like the
licensing of one of its Javascript libraries.  This led to a new TCMS
called Nitrate being written which could use the Testopia database schema.

It's worth noting they thought of us when developing the system [2].

Ideally Fedora and OLPC-A/-F/-AU should settle on sharing or using similar
enough infrastructure that we avoid significant duplication of work.  At
least within the various OLPC groups we all are more or less testing the
same thing.


[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096502.html;
the thread itself starts at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096441.html
[2]
https://fedorahosted.org/nitrate/browser/design/wireframes/add_case_new_page1.jpg&
a few other pictures


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