Hi Thorsten, On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Thorsten Ziehm<[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Lohmaier schrieb: >> Maybe it wasn't clear enough - smoketestoo_native is not using >> testtool or doing manual tests - This is a very short test that can be >> done as part of building OpenOffice.org. >> Maybe a bad name, since the former manual testing instructions were >> also labeled "smoketests" >> It consists of installing OOo into a temporary location, runnning OOo >> and creating files from every app (writer, calc, impress...) - I >> didn't have a closer look as to what else it does. But that it didn't >> catch the installation issue is really sad. So we had a released >> milestone that the user could not even launch. > [...] > The smoketest was created to identify broken applications before > announce a master build 'ready to use'. Nothing more.
So how much more broken can an application be than not being able to launch it at all? > If you think more test cases should be implemented you are invited > to do this or create a list of critical part for testing. Again twisting my words. I do /not/ want more test. Since finding bugs is not the problem I want to discuss in this thread at all. > But a > complex test will not be possible with the release engineers I think. That is missing my point anyway. > [...] To increase to > every important testing area isn't the right case, I think. I absolutely don't understand what you're trying to say. My point (with the given examples) was: Automatic testing is not the holy grail. Automatic testing did not find the majority of the stoppers reported, did it? Sad that the longer the thread goes, the more off-focus it gets, the more the discussion is dragged to "Nebenschauplätze", the more often excerpts are done without keeping the context :-( (And no, doing a full-quote is *not* the same as keeping the context.) ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
