[moving discussion to caiman-discuss]
Hi Jason, In terms of testing timezone related stuff in the text installer, I think we need 3 kind of tests. 1) The list of timezones displayed by the text installer GUI is generated dynamically by calling functions in the libzoneinfo.so library. I believe there should be some sort of validation to make sure that the text installer is displaying everything that's found correctly. 2) We need to ensure that the user's selection of timezone gets correctly displayed in the summary screen. 3) We need to ensure that the user's selection of timezone actually gets set in the installed system. I think your question below only address for item 2 above. What's your plan for the 2 other type of tests? The list of timezones is generated from the system dynamically. However, your list below is a static list. If the value from the system changes, your list will have to be updated manually. To do test #2 above better, perhaps we should define the exact algorithm used to map what gets selected by the user to what gets displayed in the Summary screen. Then, the test program can compute the result, and verify the summary screen displays the user's selection correctly. Thanks, --Karen Jason Zhao wrote: > Hi, Sue, Keith and Karen, > > Per last meeting yesterday, I will write a test-supported time zone list > to you. Please review it in attachment. > The reason of the list is because there are thousands of selection pairs > and it will time-consuming for testing to iterate all the items and > verify one by one. > > Currently, there are totally 50 pairs on this list, please review it to > see if it is enough. > > Africa: 5; > Americas: 12; > Antarctica Ocean: 1; > Arctic Ocean: 1; > Asia:9; > Atlantic Ocean: 2; > Australia: 2; > Europe: 12; > Indian Ocean: 1; > Pacific Ocean: 5 > > > Request: > On this list, since I don't know what the expected result for each > selection pair(Region/Location/Time zone) so I mark them with "?". During > test, we will verify the result one by one on "Installation Summary" screen. > Since summary page is not finished, yet and we don't know what the expected > result will be, would you please tell what are the exact results or how to > get the results. Thanks! > > Question: > Currently, on the "Time Zone" screen after selection of "Pacific > Ocean/United States", there are a lot of items inside, including "Eastern > Time", "Central Time".... Do you think it is correct? I mean on "Pacific > Ocean" region, the "United States" location should only contain several time > zone, not the whole list of time zone of "United States". E.G., the "Eastern > Time" should be at the other side of "Pacific Ocean" across American > continent, and it will be inappropriate to be here. > > > Thanks > Jason >
