I should learn how to slow down when in a hurry. :) On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:38:36PM +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:37:32AM -0700, Stuart McQuade wrote: > > Hi Janne, > > > > Can you tell me where I can find the test cases? (or some sort of testing > > script I can follow) I'm not such an experienced tester (which is why I want > > to help out and gain more experience), but I could definitely spare a few > > hours over the next few weeks. > > Hi Stuart, > > thanks for responding, as I now only realized you're gonna have to log in to > the > site to perform testcases properly, my apologies for missing this information > initially! Click on 'Log in' button, it'll take you to a screen where you can > either log in with your existing account, or create a new one. Choose > accordingly. When you're done with the authentication, you can carry on with > the > rest of these instructions. > > In the first page of the website (http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com), there are the > milestones > tests listed. For now, you can only meaningfully choose the 'Precise Daily', > it's the only one currently with 'Testing' status. Click on the name. > > Now you're presented every release that'll be out there eventually. It's a > long > list. You have to scroll way down to see 'Ubuntu Studio DVD amd64' and 'Ubuntu > Studio DVD i386' (you can disregard the Alternates, they're not being created > anymore). Click on either arch, depending on your system. > > Here you can see two testcases, 'Install (ubiquity)' and 'Live Session'. The > former is the one you choose to install without trying, when you boot up the > image (I forget now the actual text for the menu option, but it'll be quite > obvious), and the latter is the 'Try Ubuntu Studio without installing', or > something to that effect. Click on either one you're willing to test, again > depending on whether you want to make permanent changes to your system, or > just > giving it a spin to see how it runs. Note, that on this page you can subscribe > to either one or both testcases, if you so incline. > > Now finally you can see the form in which the results are to be inserted. > Above > the form you can find links to both the download info, and how the testcases > ought to be performed. If you already have acquired the image elsewhere (like > on > [0]), be sure still to read the testcase instructions, for there are listed > the > actions we'd want you to be able to take, ie. confirming that the system works > as expected. > > If everything goes as the testcases describe, you can mark the results as > 'Passed'. If you cannot finish it on one go, you can mark it as 'In progress', > and return to it later on. The most demanding is when something isn't quite > right, and the system doesn't react to everything there is in the testcase > description. Here it'd be much appreciated if you could, additionally to > marking > the test as 'Failed', look into LaunchPad [1] for possibly already existing > bugs, or file new ones if you can't find similar. 'Critical bugs' would be > those > that completely prevent you from using the system. Plain 'Bugs' is for > something > that you could potentially live with, if your life depended on it. :) > 'Hardware > profile' would be nifty, but not at all required. If you can simply describe > something about the machine you're testing on, it'd possibly speed up > profiling > some issues, but in any case the bug reports are where the majority of the > triaging happens anyway. Finally there's 'Comments' for any additional bit of > info you'd like to share with us concerning the installation/session. Remember > to hit 'Submit results' button on the way out. :) > > Good question, thanks for paying attention! Got others? Shoot, I'm happy to > help > you help us.
[0] http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/current/ [1] https://launchpad.net Any other misses? I hope not. -- Jaska (astraljava on irc.freenode.net)
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