| DATE | WHEN | WHERE |
| 2009-10-22 | From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT) | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
The site is still under construction. Anything can change before the testday.
Purpose of this test
Some text here. ;)
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, general discussion ...
- Development - Phil Knirsch, Marcela Maslanova (marcela on irc), Petr Lautrbach, Jiri Skala (skalnik on irc)
- Quality Assurance - David Pravec (dpravec), Jan Scotka
Prerequisite
Upload new RPM, update its name, what about signing it?
- Rawhide (development version of Fedora) with graphical environment
- SELinux disabled
- Internet connection
- The special-purpose Testday RPM package which includes necessary dependencies and provides all testing scripts.
- Download and install with:
yum --nogpgcheck localinstall testday-pm-0.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
- Download and install with:
- Kernel debugging info:
- Use
debuginfo-install kernelor install it manually. (In case of manual installation you have to enable debug repository in/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo.) - Versions of
kernelandkernel-debuginfomust be the same. Please check it with:uname -rrpm -q kernel-debuginfo
- Use
- Upload your hardware to Smolt according to these instructions.
Running the tests
Update your machine
See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.
Tests
The test cases are split into test groups. Some of the tests are a bit time-consuming. Please perform as many tests as possible. If you aren't able to run them all, please remember that the tests in each table are sort by importance in descending order.
You don't have to download any special scripts for each test. Our Testday package provides following commands:
testday-run-testname(performing tests)testday-pack-results(packing results of all tests in .tag.gz file)
There is a note about permission in the description of each test. Most of the tests can be performed as a normal user. Only a few need superuser permissions. Please follow this information.
X Window System
These tests should be performed on all systems in X11 environment.
| Testcase | Description | ETA |
|---|---|---|
| personal | Typical use of computer (do whatever you are doing usually). CPU states and frequencies. | 10 minutes |
| scomes | Ticks, syscall count, read/written bytes when performing some specific tasks. | 1 minute |
Single mode
These tests should be performed in single mode.
We recommend reading the description of both tests and performing these in sequence - to refrain more reboots.
| Testcase | Description | ETA |
|---|---|---|
| tuned | CPU states and frequencies when tuning daemon enabled | 7 minutes |
| basic | Stress situations (BZIP2 compression, disk copying, vsftpd test) | 2 minutes |
Laptops
Following tests are intended only for laptops. If you don't have a laptop, don't perform these tests because there is no easy way how to measure your system consumption.
Please charge your battery before performing any test.
| Testcase | Description | ETA |
|---|---|---|
| bltk | Power consumption during three simulated workloads (idle, OpenOffice, reader). | 15 minutes |
| tunedprofiles | Tuned profiles effect on power consumption. | 5-20 minutes |
Results
The file with results is generated with testday-pack-results. It takes all produced results, creates an compressed archive and put it into: /tmp/testday-091022-results.tar.gz
Hmm. How do we upload the 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. For example:
| User | Smolt Profile | Results file |
|---|---|---|
| User:FasUser | HW | FILE |