Summary
The Fedora QA team is interested in evaluating Testopia as a test planning and results recording solution.
Background
During the Fedora9 campaign, the fedora wiki was used to planning, recording and presenting test execution status. Examples can be found:
- Additional test results recorded for:
While the information gathered was very helpful, and in the case of swfdec, was used to support dropping the proposed feature from F9, manually editing the wiki was not optimal. Additionally, tracking which test cases to include in a particular test run was easy to mis-type. Manually adding results to a wiki-style table entry was also easy to mis-type.
Pro's
- Recorded test cases provided manual steps needed for execution and verification
- The test plan outlined a plan of attack and provided a prioritization and organization for the proposed test cases
- Wiki worked well for test plan and case content
- Low barrier to entry ... a wiki is straight forward and uncomplex
Con's
- Gather alternative views of test metrics from the wiki is not possible
- Wiki not so great for hard metrics (date, tester, pass/fail execution metrics)
Tasks
| STATUS | OWNER(s) | TASK |
|---|---|---|
| DEFERRED | Create testopia.fedorahosted.org site (trac, tickets, git, mailing list etc...) | |
| COMPLETE | User:dmalcolm | Rough packaging of testopia so that we can install and test on publictest2 |
| INPROGRESS | User:dmalcolm, User:jstanley | Package review for testopia RPM
See bug#450013 |
| COMPLETE | User:jkeating | Apply for fedora infrastructure sponsorship. Jesse has volunteered to be our sponsor |
| COMPLETE | User:dmalcolm | Apply for shared "publictest environment" to house proof of concept
Available at https://publictest2.fedoraproject.org/bugzilla |
| INPROGRESS | User:jlaska | Migrate existing F9 data into testopia for sample data set
See Testopia Plan#2 |
| COMPLETE | User:dmalcolm | Craft a client script for communicating to testopia via XMLRPC using mozilla cookies for authentication (see QA/Testopia/XmlRpc |
Open issues
| REPORTER | ISSUE |
|---|---|
| User:jlaska | Testopia Component list
Should the testopia instance just re-use bugzilla product and components? 2008-06-16 update: User:jstanley has updated the components on private testopia instance to use output from the pkgdb (see https://palladium.jds2001.org/bugzilla/) |
| User:jlaska | Attaching bugs
Testopia supports linking bugs to a test run. It appears to be looking in the current db for bugs, does it support looking into another bugzilla db for a valid bug#? While in the future our bugzilla and testpia would be one ... presently they are note. Perhaps an upstream patch is in order to support alternative bug repos (or perhaps a URL) in that field? |
| User:jlaska | Searching
Searching for test plans/cases/builds/results is somewhat odd in Testopia. Unless you're logged in, you can't peruse the information. The posted pdf documentation outlines how to use the quick search field, but this seems odd. There appears to be no advanced search page?
SOLVED - the Search link in the Testopia footer takes you to a Testopia specific search page. I haven't yet figured out who to save searches and pass them around via a url ... |
Lessons Learned
The following list outlines important issues uncovered during the testopia proof of concept:
FUDCon Boston 2008 Hackfest
TODO:
- Litmus test: provide link -> do something productive without getting lost
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- wording of announcement:
- to fedora-test-list? devel-list? announce-list?
- database backup
- git repo for scripts
- some docs on the wiki (screencast)
- disable bug entry
- some nice css so it doesn't look like bugzilla, and hack up as necessary
- have f10 testcases ready to go
- XML-RPC to create each day's rawhide as a "build"
- BarCamp talk: who to give? what to say? etc
???? etc
- profit!!!