Test Day:2012-04-10 KDE 4.8

Fedora Test Days
KDE Plasma Workspaces
Date	2012-04-10
Time	all day
Website	QA/Fedora_17_test_days
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 KDE Plasma Workspaces

Who's available

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

• Development - Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl), Rex Dieter (rdieter), Jaroslav Řezník (jreznik), Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler)
• Quality Assurance - Martin Holec (Martix), Vítězslav Humpa (vhumpa), Adam Williamson (adamw)

Prerequisite for Test Day

List any prerequisite needs for the test event. A fresh system, virtualized guest, a blank DVD ... a desire to break software?

• Usb key
• Usb externally connected HD IDE/SATA
• Empty HD IDE/SATA/SCSI
• Free space on HD

Here's a chunk which is commonly used for most Test Days. Replace XX with whatever Fedora release is pending (currently XX=17):

• An updated Fedora XX pre-release, Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide below), or a nightly live image
• Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

How to test?

Boot latest Fedora 17 into KDE 4.8 Plasma Workspaces.

Live image

Verification
Please check the SHA256SUM is correct before booting!

You may download a non-destructive pre-Fedora 17 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture	SHA256SUM
[http:// x86_64]	TBD
[http:// i386]	TBD

Updating Live system
Do not attempt to run yum update it may break your running Live system. RHBZ [#741594]

Using the live image is the easiest way to participate in testing for most people, but alternatively you can:

Update your machine to Fedora 17

If you are already running or want to try the pre-release of Fedora 17, install Fedora 17 Alpha and then update to the latest packages.

Test Cases

Work in progress. Please come back on Tuesday

Here's a rough list of proposed test cases/areas:

Basic desktop usage:

• Desktop Effects by default
• QA:Testcase KDE4 Theming (KDM/KSplashX/Plasma-desktop)
• GDM integration
• QA:Testcase KDE4 Session management
• QA:Testcase KDE4 Applets/Plasmoids

Hardware integration:

• Bluetooth applet (bluedevil)
• Network Manager applet
• Device Notifier applet (removable media: optical, USB, encrypted)
• Volume applet (kmix)
• Battery applet (automatic profile switching, brightness)

Essential apps:

• kdepim
• calligra
• kde-telepathy
• apper

Test Results

Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include some instructions on how to report bugs, and any special instructions. Here's an example, from a Palimpsest test day:

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component udisks, or gnome-disk-utility for bugs in the Palimpsest graphical front end itself. 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, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

User	Smolt Profile	Sample test 1	Sample test 2	Sample test 3	Sample test 4	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	warn	fail