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QualityAssurance

In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join

Test Days

Last week saw Graphics Test Week, with NVIDIA Test Day on Tuesday 2010-04-13[1], ATI/AMD Test Day on Wednesday 2010-04-14[2], and Intel graphics Test Day on Thursday 2010-04-15[3]. We had a great turnout again, with 164 total adapters tested by slightly fewer testers (extra thanks to those diligent souls who tested multiple systems!) and great support from the Fedora X.org developers and triagers. Adam Williamson provided a recap[4] of the week, with some statistics on the numbers of bugs filed, and on the numbers of bugs from previous graphics Test Days that were fixed.

This week's Test Day[5] will be on Anaconda (the Fedora installer)'s storage support[6]: we will aim to test all the various exotic storage device options Anaconda makes available, including various types of RAID array, iSCSI (with iBFT), FCoE (if we can find someone with the hardware - please do come along if you have it!) and multipath devices. The broader the base of devices we can test the better, so please do come along and help if you can, particularly if you have, say, a motherboard that supports BIOS RAID and a couple of hard disks you can use temporarily. Unlike normal Test Days, it's impractical to do this testing with a live image, but there is some testing that can be done in a virtual machine. The Test Day will take place all day on Thursday 2010-04-22 in the #fedora-test-day channel on Freenode IRC (if you're not sure how to use IRC, there's an instruction page[7], or you can use WebIRC[8]). If you can't make it on the day, you can still provide your results on the Wiki page before or after the event.

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[9].

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090271.html
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-22_StorageFiltering
  6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/StorageFiltering
  7. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC
  8. ↑ http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day
  9. ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/

Update acceptance testing

Adam Williamson and James Laska got together with Bodhi developers Luke Macken and Mathieu Bridon to find out about their plans for implementing different feedback types in Bodhi, following the proposals by Doug Ledford[1] and Adam[2]. Luke and Mathieu indicated that this work was occurring in the tg2 (TurboGears 2) branch of Bodhi, which they plan to put into production in the Fedora 14 timeframe. Adam Miller continued to revise the draft Proven Testers policy[3] based on the group's feedback.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/131799.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089690.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters:Draft

Kernel triage

At the weekly Bugzappers meeting[1], Kevin Fenzi reported that he had begun to investigate kernel triage, an area Richard June had previously been looking into but had been lacking free time. Kevin had begun to contact kernel team members and consider an overall strategy for approaching kernel triage, and asked other interested group members to join him.

  1. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-13/fedora-meeting.2010-04-13-15.01.log.html

Fedora 13 Beta Delta ISOs

Andre Robatino announced[1] the availability of Delta ISOs for Fedora 13 Beta. As a quick reminder, Delta ISOs include just the difference between two ISO images, allowing you to reconstruct one image from the other and the Delta ISO, making it much faster to download a new ISO if you have a similar previous ISO. Andre provided deltas from Fedora 12 to 13 Beta (around 40% of the size of the full F13 Beta images), and from 13 Alpha to 13 Beta (around 10% of the size of the full images).

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090082.html

Fedora 13 testing

Planned Fedora 13 testing was much quieter this week with the successful release of the Beta, but we did see the first final blocker review meeting[1], which was expertly summarized[2] by James Laska. All outstanding blocker bugs for Fedora 13 were reviewed and assigned for action by testers or the development team.

Several group members were engaged in testing the final Beta release. Tom Horsley reported[3] a README file was present on the DVD image which discussed the boot.iso image, which is no longer included in the DVD. Rahul Sundaram suggested[4] he file a bug report. Tom also noticed[5] a large amount of debugging messages from GDM in his system logs; Al Dunsmuir also observed this[6]. Adam Williamson thought[7] this was due to debugging statements that were temporarily enabled in plymouth to track down a bug, but Ray Strode later mentioned in IRC conversation that it was simply because the current gdm package is a development release. Tom wasn't done yet; he also reported[8] results from testing three ATI video cards, complete with bug reports.

Wolfgang Rupprecht reported[9] that upgrading to Fedora 13 Beta using preupgrade had failed for him; Birger also had problems[10] despite definitely having a large enough /boot partition. Kamil Paral suggested[11] waiting for preupgrade 1.1.5 and trying again, as it has fixes for several significant bugs.

Tommy He tried out the new backup tool Deja Dup and found it lacking[12]: it could not restore a backup it had created. Rahul Sundaram swung into action and made sure the upstream authors were aware of the bug, reporting back[13] that they would look into it over the coming weekend.

  1. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-04-16/f-13-blocker-bug-review.2010-04-16-15.12.log.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090224.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090186.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090202.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090198.html
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090239.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090254.html
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090199.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090097.html
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090215.html
  11. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090222.html
  12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090156.html
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090168.html
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