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Desktop validation testing: round 1 coming soon!
by Adam Williamson 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi, folks. Further to my earlier email about desktop validation testing for Fedora 14, here's a note - or a reminder, if you knew already! - that our first manual test point for the F14 cycle is due on Thursday, with the Alpha 'Test Compose' (it's a sort of early-warning test build that gives us some time to sort out any major kinks before we start building Alpha RCs). When the build is up, Rui He or I will send or forward you the official announcement, with links to the results matrix and downloads and so forth. This is just a heads-up so you know it's coming soon. It's probably worth doing a quick check of Rawhide to see if there's any huge problems with your desktops which would make the TC completely untestable, and if so, get 'em fixed before we build it :). You can get nightly live builds at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ if you want to check quickly without installing Rawhide, though there've been some bugs lately which broke the booting of live images, so they _may_ still be unbootable. The nightlies are built and uploaded automatically, and there are KDE, Xfce and LXDE builds there. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Desktop validation testing expansion
by Adam Williamson 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hi, everyone. I'm sending this email to more widely announce something we've been working on for a while. I've spoken to leaders of the XFCE, KDE and LXDE teams about this. We'd like to propose expanding the desktop validation testing that was initiated in the Fedora 13 cycle. During F13, these tests were used to check for blocker bugs only for the GNOME desktop. We did run the tests against some of the other desktops at some checkpoints, but failures from those runs weren't considered as blocking the release. For the Fedora 14 cycle, I'd like to try to run the desktop validation test set - that's the testing documented at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing - on all four major desktops at each checkpoint, and consider failures at the relevant level to be release blocking bugs. We've made some adjustments to the test suite already to reflect the input from each SIG, and we may yet work on refining the procedure a little more, but the outline of the plan is simple enough. This would be technically on an experimental basis, as the GNOME testing was during the F13 cycle; if it seems to be causing too much trouble and making it impractical to work to our release plans, we might reconsider the idea during the cycle. But we didn't have to do that for F13, and I'd hope we won't have to for F14 either. The leaders of the various desktop SIGs are fairly confident that their SIGs will be able to contribute in running the tests and fixing blocker issues promptly as they're identified. I think the QA group will also be able to contribute to this process, particularly in carrying out the testing. If anyone from QA or any of the SIGs has comments or concerns on the proposal, please air them now! Thanks a lot :) If we do end up going ahead with the idea, I'll follow up with all of the SIGs when we hit the first round of validation testing to keep you all informed on how the process works and how to contribute to it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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