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
Test Days
Thursday 2011-02-17 was Xfce 4.8[1] Test Day[2]. The event was well organized by the Xfce team, and a dedicated group of testers was able to expose some important bugs to be fixed.
The week of 2011-02-21 saw the traditional Graphics Test Week. Adam Williamson posted a full recap of the event to the mailing list[3]. He noted that participation was up again compared to the Fedora 14 events and that some important testing had been carried out, but also noted a worrying trend in status of bugs from previous events, with many bugs reported during the Fedora 13 and 14 events remaining unfixed. He promised to investigate the causes of this.
Last week and this Tuesday saw three Test Days under the internationalization and localization Test Week banner: the Anaconda i18n and l10n Test Day on 2011-03-01[4], the desktop i18n Test Day on 2011-03-03[5] and the desktop l10n Test Day on 2011-03-08[6]. These events were expertly organized and run by Igor Pires Soares, Rui He and Aman Alam, and were great successes with good turnouts and a lot of useful testing. Igor posted a recap[7] to the list, thanking all those who came to test.
Thursday 2011-03-10 is the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[8], where we are continuing to work with the GNOME team to test GNOME 3.0 and its integration with Fedora 15 as rigorously as we can before the final release of both.
Next Thursday, 2011-03-17, will be preupgrade Test Day[9], where we will be testing this important mechanism for upgrading to Fedora 15. Upgrading is always one of the thorniest areas of a Fedora release, so if it's important to you and you can come along and help test, please do - the more testing we can get early on, the better the final result will be.
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000200.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-01_L10n_i18n_Installation
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-03_I18n_Desktop
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-08_L10n_Desktop
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097613.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade
Official Fedora hosting of DeltaISO images
Andre Robatino has been building and hosting DeltaISO images for Fedora releases and pre-releases for some time now, assisting users with limited bandwidth to install and test Fedora. At the weekly meeting of 2011-03-07[1], it was announced that thanks to help from the Infrastructure team, from now on these images will be hosted within the Fedora project, making them much easier to access. They can now be found on the serverbeach1 site[2].
Installation test updates
Kamil Paral and Rui He were engaged in reviewing the installation test matrix and test cases and suggesting fixes and improvements: clarifying when results have been transferred from previous test runs[1], updating a test case for the systemd switch[2] and obsoleting some tests[3].