QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
Test Days
Thursday 2011-01-27 saw the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. The event went successfully and exposed some bugs in the system. James Laska provided a wrap-up of the event[2].
Thursday 2011-02-03 was the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. With considerable help from the desktop team, the event was a great success, with a wide range of users providing some very good testing and unearthing many bugs. Adam Williamson provided a wrap-up of the event[4].
This Thursday, 2011-02-10, was due to be FreeIPA v2[5] Test Day, but the event has been postponed to Tuesday 2011-02-15[6] - update your calendars! IPA is an identity server, and 2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day will be checking that all the major changes work as intended. Existing IPA users are probably the most likely candidates for the event, but if you've been meaning to give IPA a try anyway, this might be the ideal time.
Thursday 2011-02-17 will be Xfce 4.8[7] Test Day[8], where we will be testing out all the new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. If you're an Xfce user or just interested in alternative desktops, please come along and help test.
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_With_Biosdevname
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096886.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/000180.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeIPAv2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce
FUDCon Tempe
The QA team was out in force at FUDCon Tempe[1]. James Laska gave an AutoQA Update presentation[2] and Adam Williamson provided two wrap-up posts[3] [4].
AutoQA
James Laska created a patch[1] to transfer AutoQA config files from the test server to the client. Will Woods posted a revised version of his dependency check test[2]. Josef Skladanka updated his new koji watcher code[3].
The team also worked on making AutoQA more accessible to new developers. Josef set up a trac milestone called Finger Food[4] containing small tasks suitable for new developers, while Kamil Paral wrote a wiki page documenting AutoQA development[5].
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001543.html
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001552.html
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001529.html
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Finger%20Food
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Development
Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15
Cornel Panceac reported several problems trying to load GNOME 3 in Fedora 15 on an old Intel graphics chipset[1], and wondered if this was expected behaviour. Adam Williamson explained[2] that failure to support the GNOME Shell was normal, but the system should fall back smoothly to the 'classic' desktop mode, and failure to do that would be a bug. Cornel then reported the bug[3].