Test Day:2013-05-07 ABRT

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Fedora Test Days
[ABRT & libreport]
Date	2013-05-07
Time	6:00 UTC - 16:00 UTC
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)
• Gnome-abrt
• SEAlert integration
• Tainted kernel links
• abrt server UX

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), 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 19 pre-release

How to test?

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 19, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager.

Live image

You may download a non-destructive Fedora 19 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture	SHA256SUM
x86_64	6277f319b43b05df164eed859554865e1f7304ca66004cd2bdd6ce962b9ce7d9
i686	25b0be65f391c941a36f3941bbde024836dee6161061487ceb7b39ad84974a58

Get latest abrt/libreport packages

The latest versions are:

abrt-2.1.4-1.fc19
libreport-2.2.4-1.fc19
btparser-0.19-1.fc19
gnome-abrt-0.2.12-1.fc19

Use the following command to install/update all of them:

yum -y install --enablerepo=updates-testing \
  abrt abrt-addon-ccpp abrt-addon-kerneloops abrt-addon-python abrt-addon-vmcore abrt-addon-xorg \
  abrt-desktop abrt-dbus abrt-gui abrt-libs abrt-cli abrt-retrace-client abrt-plugin-bodhi abrt-tui \
  libreport libreport-compat libreport-filesystem libreport-cli libreport-gtk libreport-newt libreport-web \
  libreport-python libreport-plugin-mailx libreport-plugin-logger libreport-plugin-bugzilla \
  libreport-plugin-kerneloops libreport-plugin-reportuploader libreport-plugin-rhtsupport libreport-plugin-ureport \
  btparser btparser-python \
  gnome-abrt elfutils

Elfutils needed
Please make sure you have elfutils installed - abrt-ccpp is missing requires - [Bug 859674]

Make sure that:

• abrtd and abrt-ccpp services are running:

# systemctl start abrtd.service
# systemctl status abrtd.service

# systemctl start abrt-ccpp.service
# systemctl status abrt-ccpp.service

• 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 several 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.

New and important features

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
5. QA:Testcase ABRT Configuration Storage - configuration storage
6. QA:Testcase ABRT SELinux - ABRT GUI now catches AVC messages, too
7. QA:Testcase ABRT Knowledgebase - ABRT provides more information about common problems
8. QA:Testcase ABRT server - ABRT server user experience

Basic functionality

1. QA:Testcase_ABRT - Basic test
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 python - python tracebacks
8. QA:Testcase ABRT vmcore - kernel oops

Integration

1. QA:Testcase Libreport sealert - sealert integration
2. QA:Testcase Libreport anaconda - anaconda integration
3. QA:Testcase Libreport Anaconda Install - anaconda integration (directly in install)
4. QA:Testcase Retrace Server CLI - Retrace Server CLI
5. 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.

Try to break Abrt
Besides above test cases, fell free to experiment and try to break Abrt in your own ways. We will be happy with that :-).

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, or btparser for backtrace parser related bugs, or gnome-abrt for new Gnome Abrt GUI. 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.

Important workaround
As of now, abrt contains a bug which prevents it from working properly after booting from LiveCD. If you booted from the live image, please do systemctl restart abrtd as root before starting.

New and important features

User	Simplified crash reporting	Reporting known crash	Ruby exceptions	Gnome ABRT	Configuration storage	SELinux alerts	Knowledgebase	ABRT server user experience	References
Sample User	pass	warn	fail	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress

Basic functionality

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

User	sealert	anaconda	anaconda install	firstboot	Retrace cli	Retrace gui	References
Sample User	pass	warn	fail	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress