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
Fedora 13 testing
The QA group has spent the last two weeks almost entirely engaged in Fedora 13 testing, with the release cycle nearing its end. Testing of the test compose (TC1) began on 2010-04-29[1], with as usual installation[2] and desktop[3] validation tests.
Thanks to this testing and also more general long-term Fedora 13 use, a large pool of release blocking bugs built up, with over 60 release blocking bugs needing to be addressed before final release could be considered. At the regular blocker bug review meetings, the group - along with the development and release engineering groups - gradually tackled this set of bugs until the list was eventually cleared for the RC1 release[4] on 2010-05-07, only a day behind the planned schedule.
RC1 testing - installation[5] and desktop[6] - was generally positive, but two issues led to the release of a minimally-changed RC2[7]. RC2 installation[8] and desktop[9] testing was again mostly positive, but identified a bug[10] with NFS installation, which at the 2010-05-12 go/no-go meeting[11] was agreed to be potentially significant enough to delay the final release. The slip was announced[12] on 2010-05-12; a RC3 build will now be provided by the release engineering team for QA testing during the next few days and, we hope, validation for release on 2010-05-25.
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090520.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_TC1_Install
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_TC1_Desktop
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090707.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC1_Install
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC1_Desktop
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090721.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC2_Install
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC2_Desktop
- ↑ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590640
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-12/f-13-readiness.2010-05-12-00.00.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090881.html
Test Days
The final two Test Days of the Fedora 13 release cycle were Preupgrade Test Day[1] on Thursday 2010-04-29, followed by Xfce Test Day[2] on Friday 2010-04-30. Rui He provided a recap[3] of the preupgrade Test Day, reporting that "many bugs/problems were found out in different conditions during preupgrading." Only one dedicated Xfce enthusiast - thank you, Nathan! - provided a full set of Xfce test results, but these indicated that everything was working correctly.