It won't work well. Any kind of automated test is going to have a lot of
problem areas.
3D Examples:
Reports back, “WORKING”, but crashes every 30 minutes.
Reports back, “WORKING”, but is extremely loud, because the fan doesn't
work
Reports back, “WORKING”, but only because the user installed a non-free
blob manually
Wireless Examples:
Reports back, “WORKING”, but you can't transfer more than 500MB before
crashing
Reports back, “WORKING”, but the bluetooth portion of the card is
dependent on non-free software
Reports back, “WORKING”, but the bluetooth only worked because the user
has MS Windows/Ubuntu/or some other OS w proprietary software loading it
Reports back, “WORKING”, but you can't connect due to digital restriction
or on/off button issue
56K Dial-up Modems:
Reports back, “WORKING”, but doesn't mention the fact fax doesn't work
Reports back, “WORKING”, but fails to mention a variety of other features
don't work
Reports back, “NOT WORKING”, but actually would if only the distribution
had included the right permissions so the modem was accessible to the test
application
Reports back, “NOT WORKING”, but only because it didn't get the port
right, auto-detect actually picks it up, but hey- we're just a simple test
app
Printers:
Reports back, “WORKING”, but the machine is a mulch-function device
without support for scanning despite having scanning capability
Reports back, “NOT WORKING”, but actually does, your just missing some
piece of software which has to be installed from the repository
Those are just a handful that come to mind. There are lots of other issues.
