I wanted to cross-post this to our list as well, as it contains some
pertinent info, as well as what I've written on my blog post this afternoon:
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/kick-starting-quality-for-ubuntu-touch.html
In short, let's leverage our knowledge of manual and automated testing
for the new platform.. Starting with the core applications. We'll also
be getting into hardware testing, writing some cool automated tests
using umockdev (https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev) and autopilot if
we can, and in general smoke testing and dogfooding the images and apps
as they come. But there's no reason to wait! We can be involved now and
stay informed with what's happening on the platform, as well as working
with the developers to keep things humming along nicely. There's plenty
of cool stuff to do, enjoy and test no matter what skills you bring to
the table, and it's all happening now.
I'm excited about being a part of making sure ubuntu touch is an amazing
platform -- I know I want a ubuntu phone, and we can be a big part of
making it a nice experience.
Squirming with excitement,
Nicholas
On 03/13/2013 07:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
Just wanted to drop by the list to say hello and introduce myself and
everyone else in ubuntu quality. I'm part of the quality community
team, and I can't want to dive in and help test all this cool stuff
you guys are putting together!
To that end, I wanted to make you aware of a few things happening now
to help support the testing of these applications. There is a
pre-existing project,https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/, and
tracker, http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/, that we as a team utilize for
manual testing the current ubuntu desktop images, applications,
hardware, etc. In a nutshell, we as a team regularly test the desktop
images and applications on a variety of real and virtual hardware. We
maintain our tests in the repository linked above, and utilize several
'qatrackers' to record our results, ie packages.qa.ubuntu.com.
With that in mind, we want to help test this new platform, including
the core apps. I've started to point folks within our community
towards the work that is going on here in order to have some nice
testing going on as your applications reach a usable state. As an
example, I took a look at the calculator app which has made great
strides against the design that has been posted thus far. Using that
design, I wrote several tests that walk through a series of actions
and expected results. You can see the result here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nskaggs/ubuntu-manual-tests/ubuntutouch/view/head:/testcases/touch/ubuntu%20calculator%20app
This test then ends up looking this this on our tracker (note this is
just a mockup on a dev site, don't submit results :-) );
http://packages.qa.dev.stgraber.org/qatracker/milestones/250/builds/27920/testcases/1560/results
This raw seem a bit weird to look at for some of you, but I would
refer you to the following pages on how we write and maintain our
manual tests:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TestCaseFormat
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/Manual
So, what does this mean for all of you?
-- If you have some manual tests for your application, please, create
and submit them to the repository! We'll make sure our testing events
utilize them. There's great tutorials if your new to what a manual
test should look like.
-- If you need some manual testing of your application, please let me
know. We in ubuntu quality can help write tests if needed and test
your app.
We as a community also have been working with autopilot, and have some
experience in writing those types of tests as well. There's some
excellent resources to help you, and I'm always interested in
automated tests if you need help :-)
In short, let us help make your apps rock! We're excited about the
possibilities of the new platform and eager to get our feet wet and
help test all the new stuff.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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