Test Day:2012-10-01 ABRT

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Fedora Test Days
[ABRT & libreport]
Date	2012-09-19
Time	all day
Website	ABRT homepage
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on:

• Automated Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT)
• Unified Problem Reporting UI (libreport)
• Simplified crash reporting via ABRT Server (Fedora 18 Feature)

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Jiří Moskovčák (jmoskovc), Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk), Karel Klíč (kklic), Michal Toman (mtoman), Richard Marko (rmarko), Filák Jakub (jfilak), Lichvár Miroslav (mlichvar)
• Quality Assurance - David Kutálek (dkutalek), Martin Kyral (mkyral)

Prerequisite for Test Day

• Physical machine or a virtual machine
• An updated Fedora 18 pre-release

How to test?

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 18, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager.

Live image

You may download a non-destructive Fedora 18 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Download the nightly Fedora 18 build for your architecture. Choose the mainstream 'desktop' spin or any other desktop-like spin (kde, lxde, xfce).

Get latest abrt/libreport packages

The latest versions are (FIXME - update):

abrt-2.0.12-1.fc18
libreport-2.0.13-1.fc18
btparser-0.18-2.fc18

Use the following command to install/update all of them (FIXME - recheck):

yum -y install --enablerepo=updates-testing \
  abrt abrt-addon-ccpp abrt-addon-kerneloops abrt-addon-python abrt-desktop \
  abrt-gui abrt-libs abrt-cli abrt-retrace-client \
  libreport libreport-cli libreport-gtk libreport-newt libreport-python \
  libreport-plugin-mailx libreport-plugin-logger libreport-plugin-bugzilla \
  libreport-plugin-kerneloops libreport-plugin-reportuploader

Make sure that:

• abrtd and abrt-ccpp services are running:

# service abrtd start
Starting abrtd (via systemctl):                            [  OK  ]
# service abrt-ccpp start
Starting abrt-ccpp (via systemctl):                        [  OK  ]

• file /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains following output:

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
|/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp %s %c %p %u %g %t e

Test Cases

For better orientation there are three groups of test cases, top priority first. Follow each of these test cases, or just some group(s) of them in case of limited time for testing. (FIXME - check old ones and add a few new ones):

New features or test cases

1. Features/SimplifiedCrashReporting - Simplified Crash Reporting (F18 Feature)
2. QA:Testcase ABRT Reporting Known Crash - reporting of known crash
3. QA:Testcase ABRT ruby gem - ruby exceptions
4. QA:Testcase GNOME ABRT MAIN - gnome-abrt

Basic functionality

1. QA:Testcase_ABRT - default crash report
2. QA:Testcase_ABRT_Logger - Logger plugin
3. QA:Testcase_ABRT_Bugzilla - Bugzilla plugin
4. QA:Testcase_ABRT_Mailx - Mailx plugin
5. QA:Testcase ABRT CLI - CLI interface
6. QA:Testcase ABRT kernel - kernel oops
7. QA:Testcase ABRT vmcore - kernel oops
8. QA:Testcase ABRT python - python tracebacks
9. QA:Testcase Libreport sealert - sealert integration
10. QA:Testcase Libreport anaconda - anaconda integration
11. QA:Testcase Libreport firstboot - firstboot integration

Advanced & older functionality

1. QA:Testcase Retrace Server CLI - Retrace Server CLI
2. QA:Testcase Retrace Server GUI - Retrace Server in ABRT GUI

Close all fake bugs you create!
During certain test cases you will be required to simulate application crashes and report these crashes into Bugzilla. It is very important that after every such fake report you open the link provided by ABRT and close that bug as NOTABUG with comment like "ABRT testing bug". Otherwise you would overload package developers with fake bug reports. Thank you.

Report SELinux denials against ABRT
If you encounter some SELinux (AVC) denials during testing, please report them against the abrt package, not selinux package. Thanks.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component abrt, or libreport for bugs in the libreport library. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

Abrt test cases

User	Basic test	Logger reporting	Bugzilla reporting	Mailx plugin	CLI interface	Kernel oops	Python crash	Kernel panic(vmcore)	References
Sample User	pass	warn	fail	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

Integration test cases

User	sealert	anaconda	firstboot	Retrace cli	Retrace gui	References
Sample User	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress