If you have no previous experience with the program, what is your current level of knowledge in astronomy? Do you expect certain functionality in such a program, how is it implemented, does it properly simulate what's visible outside your door? Even naked-eye astronomy is such a wide field, and Stellarium already covers so many topics from sky cultures and multilingual aspects to telescope tracking, ocular fields of view and satellite radio frequency information, it's hard to define what we would like to have tested. I guess most of us (me included) even lack the hardware to test the projection modes for small planetaria.
If you are deeply involved in astronomical computing, of course astronomical accuracy and proper implementation of models is always an issue to care about (i.e. finding inaccuracies and -- if possible -- going into the code and repairing at the right place without breaking assumptions elsewhere), but a week is likely not enough time to go very deep. Else, you may limit yourself to test "New User" experience (i.e. mostly the GUI, shortcuts, menu structure, extensions, ...), cross-platform issues, or correctness and completeness of the user manual, ... Not an answer, I know, but maybe we can find a useful set of test topics. Kind regards, Georg On Mo, 28.01.2013, 09:42, magnus.petters...@yh.nackademin.se wrote: > Hello. > > I was pointed to this list by Fabien with my question. I am a student > currently studying test and QA on a testing proffessionals program in > Sweden. In about 2 weeks we are going to launch a final project in one of > our classes. Over 2 weeks we will plan and test an application, > prefferably open source. My group would like to test stellarium. We are 4 > students, none of us has previous experience with stellarium. We will have > about 1 week of planning and 1 week of testing/reporting. Is there any > particular functions you would like us to focus our testing on? > > Regards > Magnus Pettersson > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
