QA/TestPlans/Camera

Basic Functionality

Status: Partially TESTED (Preview Release) Issues with Cheese need to be resolved.

The definition of basic functionality is that the camera hardware is detected/installed appropriately, the laptop microphone/camera in-use indicators, and Cheese works as expected.

XO Hardware

• Does XO Camera work? | Passed (Preview Release) | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
• Does microphone/camera in-use indicators work? | Passed (Preview Release) | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>

Applications

Status: Partially TESTED (Preview Release)

Are there other applications to test that use the camera?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Programming_the_camera

• Initial testing of video capabilities with gst-launch worked using:

  gst-launch v4l2src ! xvimagesink

Cheese

• Can XO capture pictures? | PASSED (Preview Release) but 468101 makes it difficult to use | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
• Can XO capture video? | UNABLE TO TEST (Preview Release) see 468101 for details | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
  • Also See | 470342 Bkearney
• Does Cheese's visual effects work? | PASSED (Preview Release) but 468101 makes it difficult to use | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
  • XO might not have enough CPU for Cheese effects | [jkatz]

Facebook (Adobe Flash)

• Can Adobe Flash Access Camera and Take Photot | [1] Bug 469497 | <CovertCodeOp1 at gmail dot com>
• Will test with free flash alternatives

Steps

• Install Adobe Flash Player from Adobe
• Log into Facebook
• Navigate to "Take a Picture"
• Grant Flash access to the webcam (can not interact with security settings pop-up)
• See it work. (preview window shows but not at the correct size and does not work)

Adobe Flash (General)

• Camera works fine with V4L2 driver (F10 Release) | vgrinco at redhat dot com

Ekiga

• Can XO capture video? | FAILED (Preview Release) Works locally but remote ekiga seg faults 469132 | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
  • PASSED (Preview Release) with new build of ekiga [2] | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
• Does XO mic work? | UNABLE TO TEST (Preview Release) ekiga seg faults 469132 | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>
  • PASSED (Preview Release) with new build of ekiga [3] | <bpowell01 at gmail dot com>

VLC

• Camera works fine (V4L2 driver) | vgrinco at redhat dot com

Camera Performance

Status: NOT TESTED

How well does the camera perform under certain situations? Under heavy load is there performance issues?

• Does the XO save the resultant files alright? | NOT TESTED | <claim this>

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NOTES: For a sample test plan format, please see QA/TestPlans/Audio