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. > > 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. > > 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. > > --- > SJG > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
