Desktop/Testing

Desktop Testing

This page is meant as a starting point to collect useful information about testing the Fedora desktop.

Automatic Desktop Testing

There are multiple projects that aim to automate testing of desktop (specifically UI) functionality.

• dogtail
• LDTP

GDM

A list of tests for Gnome Display Manager functionality.

• Login screen
  • Check that expected functionality is present:
    • check that users are listed
    • check that supported login methods are presented in the greeter
    • check that non-available login methods are not offered (e.g. if fprintd is installed and enabled, but the user has no fingerprints enrolled, the fingerprint button should be present, but disabled)
    • check that language and keyboard selection have the expected effect inside the session, and that keyboard selection also affects the password entry
    • check that suspend/shutdown/etc buttons are present and effective, depending on the applicable PolicyKit policies
• Logging in
  • Start with logging into you user account
    • You should now be in Gnome
  • Log out from you already logged in user account
    • You should now be in GDM
  • Log in again and lock the screen by going to "System" and choose "Lock screen"
  • Press space and select "Switch User"
    • you should now be in GDM.
  • Log in again now as an different user.
    • If an different useraccount does not exist on your system
    • you can create one by logging in and go to System --> Administration and select "Users and Groups"
  • Logout again

Gnome

Idea to structure this as the user sees it in Gnome as in component in "Application" "Places" "System"

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Applications

Accessories

Archive Manager

Take Screenshot

There are a lot of applications able to take screenshots of the desktop, for instance the GIMP, and the gnome-screenshot.

However, if you want to capture artifacts, you may need some kind of serial screenshot application. One way to do that is to run the following in a terminal :

for i in `seq 1 10` ; do import -window root /tmp/screenshot$i.png && sleep 0.1 ; done

The ten screenshots this loop generates are located in /tmp .

System

Basic Sanity Checks

A list of tests for basic desktop functionality.

• Handling of USB sticks:
  • insert a usb stick
  • verify that nautilus opens a window showing the contents of the sticks toplevel directory
  • verify that the stick shows up in the nautilus "computer" window, and in the panel "places" menu
  • open gedit, open the file chooser dialog, verify that the stick is represented in the left pane and you can open a file
• Handling of audio cds:
  • insert an audio cd
  • expect that a nautilus window pops up that asks you what to do. It should offer opening in rhythmbox, sound-juicer, as well as picking another application.
  • select rhythmbox and click ok
  • expect that rhythmbox opens, with the cd selected
  • verify that rhythmbox gets author, titles, etc and cover art for your cd
  • repeat the same steps this time choosing sound-juicer, and verify that sound-juicer opens up, and also gets metadata for your cd
  • Now go to Preferences -> Personal -> File Management, open the Media tab, and change the choice for how to treat audio cds. Verify that when inserting the cd again, nautilus obeys the new choice
• Handling of cameras:
  • Plug in your digital camera
  • expect that a nautilus window pops up that asks you what to do. It should offer opening in f-spot and gthumb, as well as picking another application
  • select f-spot and click ok
  • expect that f-spot opens, and offers to import photos from your camera
  • repeat the same steps with gthumb
  • Now go to Preferences -> Personal -> File Management, open the Media tab, and change the choice for how to treat photos. Verify that when inserting the cd again, nautilus obeys the new choice
• Launchers
  • Open Applications -> Accessories, Click on the Calculator icon, and drag it over the desktop background, then drop it
  • A launcher with the calculator icon appears on the desktop
  • Verify that clicking on it starts gcalctool
  • Open the Properties dialog on the new launcher, and verify that you can change the icon, name and comment, and the changes are reflected on the desktop
  • Drag the new launcher over the top panel and drop it there
  • A launcher with the same icon appears on the panel
  • Verify that clicking it starts gcalctool
  • Remove the new launcher from the panel by moving it to the trash can
• Mime type handling
  • Open a nautilus window in a folder with a variety of file types: C sources, shell scripts, png images, text files, office documents, etc
  • Verify that nautilus picks reasonable icons and chooses an accurate description for the types of the files in the list view
  • Open the context menu on these files and check that nautilus offers appropriate applications for opening the files
• Recent documents
  • Open a various types of files: text files in gedit, images in eog or gthumb, office documents in OpenOffice
  • Verify that each application shows only the files opened with itself in its recent files list
  • Verify that Places > Recent Documents shows all the files
  • Check that clearing the list of recent files works and that all open applications update their own recent files lists when it happens
• Bookmarks
  • Add a number of bookmarks in the file chooser in gedit
  • Verify that the bookmark lists are in sync between the file chooser, nautilus and the Places menu in the panel
  • Test that adding bookmarks for remote locations works and clicking the bookmark mounts the remote location. Test this in nautilus, the panel Places menu and the filechooser (e.g. in gedit)
  • Verify that bookmarks can be removed
• Trash
  • Test moving files to the trash via the "Move to trash" menuitem
  • Test moving files to the trash via DND onto the trash icon on the desktop
  • Test moving files to the trash via DND onto the trash icon on the panel
  • Open the trash location and check that it shows all your trashed files
  • Verify that restoring files from trash works
  • Verify that emptying the trash works
  • Check that the trash icons on the panel and desktop are updated when the trash is empties
• Window management
  • Moving focus by clicking on taskbar buttons works
  • Moving focus by Alt-Tab works
  • Changing workspaces by Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right works
  • Changing workspaces by clicking on the pager works
  • Maximizing/unmaximizing works
  • Fullscreening works for e.g. firefox, totem or gthumb
• Menus and applications
  • Check that each item in the Applications and System menus has an icon
  • Check that each item in the Applications and System menus launches an application successfully
  • In each application, go through the menus and spot-check that the menuitems are operational. Pay particular attention to 'Help' and 'About'.