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 for 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 ... |
| User:alindebe | Must be logged in for viewing
We'd like our content to be read-only for all users ... login should not be required. |
FUDCon Boston 2008 Hackfest
Stuff To Do
- You will need to create an account.
- Go to https://publictest2.fedoraproject.org/bugzilla
- Click on "New Account" and supply your email address.
- This is still a prototype; do not reuse a valuable password for this.
- Get yourself added to the Testers group (wwoods can do this; who else?)
- Look'n'feel - some nice css so it doesn't look like bugzilla, and hack up as necessary
- some docs on the wiki (screencast)
- HOWTO: installation testing: how to report results?
- HOWTO: write a test plan/case for one of your packages
- wording of announcement:
- to fedora-test-list? devel-list? announce-list?
- database backup
- git repo for scripts
- disable bug entry
- have f10 install testcases ready to go
- XML-RPC to create each day's rawhide as a "build"
- BarCamp talk: who to give? what to say? etc
- profit!!!
What was done
Fit and Finish
- Worked around error when creating new account
when creating account, upon following the link in the confirmation email and signing in for the first time as a new user: (this is upstream bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378633 )
https://publictest2.fedoraproject.org/bugzilla/token.cgi
Software error:
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'test_plan_permissions' was locked with a READ lock and can't be updated [for Statement "INSERT INTO test_plan_permissions
(userid, plan_id, permissions, grant_type)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)" with ParamValues: 1='2', 3=2, 0='10', 2='1'] at Bugzilla/User.pm line 944
Bugzilla::User::derive_regexp_groups('Bugzilla::User=HASH(0x7ed4ba0)') called at Bugzilla/User.pm line 1619
Bugzilla::User::create('Bugzilla::User', 'HASH(0x7d2cca0)') called at /usr/share/bugzilla/token.cgi line 372
main::confirm_create_account() called at /usr/share/bugzilla/token.cgi line 158
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost
<mailto:root@localhost>), giving this error message and the time and
date of the error.
Turned out to be the regexp in jlaska's installation plan; removing it for now.
mysql> select * from test_plan_permissions_regexp; +---------+-------------+-------------+ | plan_id | user_regexp | permissions | +---------+-------------+-------------+ | 2 | .* | 1 | +---------+-------------+-------------+
- Changed "mailfrom" from bugzilla-daemon@fedoraproject.org to testopia@fedoraproject.org
- Various template hacks, see git log on /usr/share/bugzilla
- Tried setting "expires" on static content
XML-RPC stuff
- dmalcolm updated the python XML-RPC helper to handles login cookies sanely, working on getting this upstream; see QA/Testopia/XmlRpc
- bpeck worked on reporting results from automated testing directly via XML-RPC; see QA/Testopia/XmlRpcReporting