QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1], as the QA group and the Fedora project in general awaken from its holiday slumber!
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
Test Days
There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1].
Weekly meetings
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-01-11. The full logs are available[2]. Adam Miller reported that he had begun working with Christoph Wickert and Kevin Fenzi to plan the Fedora 13 Xfce test day. They had started a new mailing list for Xfce issues and discussed whether to commit to including Xfce 4.8 in Fedora 13.
Jóhann Guðmundsson had agreed with Christoph Wickert that a Fedora 13 LXDE test day would be a useful event. He promised to work on writing test cases and picking a date for the test day. He also suggested an LXDE mailing list may be a good idea.
James Laska said he had spoken to Matthias Clasen about the possibility of Fit'n'Finish test days for the Fedora 13 cycle, but Matthias thought this would likely not happen. James had also added some ideas about test days for the Fedora 13 cycle to the wiki talk page[3].
James had also posted a request to the mailing lists[4] for reviews of packages needed for the AutoQA project, but he was still looking for people to review the packages.
Will Woods gave an update on the AutoQA project. He had been filing tickets to plan out future work on automated installation testing, organized under a milestone[5]. However, the next priority was to work on dependency check tests, organized under another milestone[6]. This requires the creation of a post-bodhi-update hook; Will had been working with Luke Macken to decide on the best method of doing this. He also noted that rpmguard had now been merged into AutoQA's master branch. Kamil Paral noted that he had written a blog post[7] on the recent changes to rpmguard and the creation of an rpmguard wiki page[8]. He was now thinking about how to improve rpmguard's reporting method. James Laska provided an update on the status of packaging the AutoQA components into Fedora: autotest-client is awaiting review[9], autoqa and autotest are packaged, and he is working on a plan for packaging gwt, which has a large amount of Java dependencies. He was considering having a sprint to work on that.
There was no BugZappers meeting during the week due to the absence of several members.
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100111
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:QA/Fedora_13_test_days
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/043856.html
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Automate%20installation%20test%20plan
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/autoqa%20depcheck
- ↑ http://kparal.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/rpmguard-a-wiki-page-and-a-new-output-format/
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard
- ↑ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548522
X.org update testing request
Adam Williamson asked the group[1] to make a special effort to test several new X.org and graphics-related candidate updates, due to the significant impact they could have if approved as stable updates. Many group members responded with valuable feedback, which helped the X developers promote the updates to stable status with confidence.
Desktop validation testing update
Adam Williamson updated the status of the desktop validation testing project: he had now created a draft test matrix[1] to organize desktop validation testing for the Fedora 13 cycle, and asked for the group's comments on it, and opinions on whether it should be merged with the installation testing matrix, or made into a separate page. Rui He thought[2] it should be a separate page. James Laska suggested[3] separate pages with a read-only master page which would transclude the separate pages.
Contact with Symbian QA group
Symbian's Mike Kinghan asked[1] if the group was interested in helping Symbian's fledgling community QA group with the benefit of its immense wisdom and experience. Once the laughter had died down, Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested that Mike could post his questions to the list for feedback from all group members, and/or contact Adam Williamson, the community QA lead.
Updated gnome-shell available for testing
Adam Miller announced[1] that he had updated Rawhide's gnome-shell package to a recent upstream git snapshot, and asked the group to help test it and send feedback and bug reports upstream to the GNOME project.