Alfred, I know that this was intended for Brian but my opinion is that tests should still be done against Solaris because of certain implementation differences. Some programs due to compile options, workarounds, and other circumstances may not be reproducible in the same version on the counterparts on Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Fedora. There are probably a few things that are compiled against the same version of GCC with the same performance options using the same libraries but then there's probably a large chunk that isn't since Sun maintains support for compiling against Sun Studio which be exhibit aberrant behavior.
James On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:36 +0800, Alfred Peng wrote: > Brian Cameron wrote: > > Paul: > > > > I applaud the idea of making our testing process more open and public. > > This is a really great idea. However, the process you suggest seems > > Solaris-centric. I think we could be taking this idea further. > > > > Since most desktop applications are free/open software, shouldn't we be > > working more closely with the external free software communities? > > For example, perhaps the various companies who use GNOME could be > > working more closely together to share test specifications, testing > > results, etc. > > > Hi Brian, > > I'm all for the idea to work with up-stream communities. That's what the > Firefox/Thunderbird QEs are doing right now. Instead of only sticking > with the apTest test tool, they join Mozilla community by using the > Litmus test tool: https://litmus.mozilla.org/, and also work with > Mozilla community to organize bugday(bug verification)/testday(test on a > specific feature or release) events in China. > > Just one thing need to be made clear. Could we trust the testing results > from other companies or communities? I think GNOME has the similar > situation with Firefox/Thunderbird. Solaris shares most code with Linux > distros but there are still some differences. If a Linux distro releases > a test report with GO, do we still need to do the test again on Solaris? > > Thanks, > -Alfred > > For example, there isn't even a QA specific GNOME mailing list at > > http://mail.gnome.org/. Perhaps it would be good to similarly suggest > > to the GNOME community that such a list be created so that QA/QE > > engineers from different organizations can talk together and work more > > closely together. > > > > In other words, I think we should consider sending our proposal to the > > external GNOME, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. mailing lists and see if > > there is a more general interest with these communities to work more > > closely together in QA/QE testing efforts. > > > > Having said all this, I think there is also value in having a > > Sun-specific QA desktop mailing list. After all, some aspects of > > QA testing will be distro specific. I just think we should also > > be working to work more closely with the external communities as > > well. > > > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
