Dear Ubuntu Testing Team members, in the last few days, I tried to contribute to testing of the 10.10 release on various Laptops which I have or can use for that purpose. Unfortunately I made the experience, that the wiki with the Test plans is pretty outdated, and therefore many tests need to be marked as "failed" because the instructions are not appropiate. Some examples:
exc-001: There is no example folder / symlink anymore, the content was moved to /usr/share/example-content already some time ago. It is not clear which files / applications are targetted, and what the expected output is. (not only the applications should start correctly, but they should also handle the files correctly) snr-001: Entering the password is not needed when testing via LiveCD, this should be mentioned. snr-002: Executing more than 30 cycles of sleep/wakeup could lead to hardware damage, limiting the cycles to 5 should be really enough! him-001: It is not clear, if this applies only to internal card readers only. khk-001: The expected behaviour is, that Ubuntu also shows the volume meter on screen; but on many older machines the volume is adjusted, but the user is not given appropiate (visual) feedback. This should be included in this test case as well, to spot the affected machines. hsi-001: the media file "fables_01_01_aesop.spx" seems to be outdated, there is other media included in 10.10; It should be also verified, that the sound plays correctly and does not produce any stottering hhi-001: see hsi-001 his-001: Changing refresh rate not covered his-001: (video in general) there is no test case to test for fluent video playback (maybe except exc-001) bfu-001: Not clear, what is meant by app - is this the whole operating system? hpu-002: Ubuntu has various bugs regarding wrong paper size (especially A4 vs. letter) in some drivers, this should be verified here as well. hpu-002, hds-001, hds-002, hds-003, hds-004 : missing here - at least some of them should be included into LaptopTesting as well, this is pretty important for many mobile users Other, general aspects: * the template for the Laptop entries (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Reports/Template) is *very* incomplete. Most people seem to include info like lshw output, dmidecode details etc. - why is this all missing in the template? Therefore, instead of re-using the template, testers have to copy/paste the structure around from existing reports. * the main wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Reports) has no consistency regarding the naming of the tested "editions" It would make testing Ubuntu (Pre-)Releases a much more pleasant experience, if you could update the test plan and look into the mentioned issues. I strongly believe there are much more people out there who would be willing to contribute to systematic Laptop Testing, but finding the wiki pages and test plan in the current (not very useable) state could be pretty frustrating. Regards, Daniel -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa