10.1.3/Testing

Introduction

This is a page where the testers are invited to gather their testing results for release 10.1.3. We hope to find out more quickly possibly introduced regressions and get a sense of what works well. There are some tests where details about the hardware you used are of interest to us (e.g. Internet connection, USB2VGA). And of course, we hope it is fun for you to see a page like this grow!

Each 10.1.3 Feature has a section where you can comment. There are as well some more generic tests like connecting to the Internet and backwards compatibility tests. The last section has a list of bugs that we think are important to test.

Install testing environment

Follow the instructions at Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation.

10.1.3 Features

Sugar Ad-hoc networks

To mimic the mesh behavior on devices where mesh hardware is not available and make the "under a tree"-scenario possible the Sugar ad hoc networks have been added. The feature adds three default ad hoc networks, for channel 1, 6, and 11. They are represented with designated icons in the Neighborhood view.

Testing plans can be found in the 0.90 Feature page. Note: the icons are only visible on the XO-1.5 by design. You still can connect XO-1s and XO-1.5s with each other though, see the testing plans for how to do that. If you only have Xo-1s you can as well let Sugar create the Ad-hoc networks. Enabling them can be done with a gconf command in the Terminal activity 'gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/sugar/network/adhoc true'.

Name	Works?	Comment
garycmartin	yes	Tested between two XO-1s, one using the gconf change to imitate XO-1.5 behaviour
Melbourne testing	yes	Set up ad hoc on XO1.5 10.1.2 and connected to it with 2 XO1's 10.1.3

Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a storage device

One possible use case: Martin wants to give a picture he has been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB-stick and copies the Journal entry on the stick. Simon insert the stick and copies it into his Journal. Another use case is, to use this Feature to backup Journal entries.

More information can be found here.

Name	Works?	Comment
garycmartin	yes	Transferred Paint activity drawing between two XO-1s via USB-stick, thumbnail/description/tags/colour all correctly preserved.

USB2VGA Adapter usage

One possible use case: Teacher wants to connect an XO with a projector.

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Usage notes at Adding_USB_SVGA. See the '10.1.3' and 'Limitations and Quirks' sections.

Name	XO Model and Build	USB-SVGA adapter	Works?	Comment
Martin Langhoff	XO-1.5 os358	StarTech.com USB2VGA	yes	Tested: Sugar, TurteArt, Disconnect/reconnect of the USB device

Activities

Home button in Browse activity

The Home button in Browse gives you always the possibility to go back to the defined starting page.

Name	Works?	Comment
Simon	yes	nice work!
garycmartin	yes	Home button worked as expected.

Activity	Description	Ticket	Name	Works	Comment
Browse	History not right when resuming activity	<trac>10437</trac>
Browse	Browse fails to download some files with non-ascii characters	<trac>8857</trac>
Browse	Can not save pictures from the olpc library with Browse to Journal	<trac>10365</trac>
Browse	Palettes in Browse do not always go away	<trac>10407</trac>
Browse	Generate preview image for downloaded images				SL #1106
Browse	Browse has no "busy" indication	<trac>10383</trac>
Write	Change the default method to insert images ticket	<trac>3066</trac>			Tickets #3066 and ticket #7405.Adds a checkbox to enable the user to select the method
Write	Preserve the mime type when reading and saving files.				Related to tickets ticket #8972, ticket #5291, ticket #1925 and SL #2127.
Write	Add option to export to PDF				SL #1458
Write	Paste images in write				Tickets #2507 and ticket #7186. Now you can copy an image from Paint, Browse or Write and paste in Write.
Write	Don't set the activity metadata property when save PDF file because Write can save PDF files but can't open them	<trac>10442</trac>
Write	The mime types from files rtf and html have text/plain in mime_parents. We need to modify the criteria to open them like rich text	<trac>8972</trac>
Write	Color chooser does not always work when giving color to selected text	<trac>10488</trac>
Distance	hanges ringdown values for more stable meassures	<trac>10122</trac>			(part of ticket #10122)
Paint	Use new colorchooser (still use ColorSelector for <= 0.82)	<trac>1015</trac>
Paint	Fixed aspect ratio mode for Shape tools	<trac>3705</trac>
Paint	New suggestion for arrow drawing in Paint	<trac>4170</trac>
Paint	Changes made to save the last added text item	<trac>5917</trac>
Paint	Paint - Rect. Marquee icon changes erratically	<trac>5882</trac>
Paint	Implemented Mirroring Effect in Paint Activity				SL#2463
Paint	Added Invert Color Effect to Paint Activity	<trac>2495</trac>
Paint	Title for 'Rectangualar Marquee' tool changed to 'Select Area'				SL #2266
Paint	Paint starts with a random color selected				SL #2053
Paint	Paste images from clipboard	<trac>9022</trac>
Paint	Paint overwrites file type instead of creating new file				SL #1771
Paint	Tools & Shapes would be a radio button set				ticket #3695 and ticket #3694
Paint	Active point of Paint pointers should be at tip of pencil, brush, drip on fill bucket, etc				SL #296
Paint	The free form polygn tool should be in the shapes toolbar	<trac>3693</trac>
Paint	Turn off activity sharing				SL #1863
Paint	Make "keep aspect ratio" selection visible in the UI				SL #931
Paint	Under tools tab, pencil size funcionality is not working				SL #1902
Paint	Change in the icon activity to avoid errors in new librsvg
Paint	Clean up cursors
Paint	Add binary files to python 2.7
Read	Add scrolling options for PDFs	<trac>10396</trac>
Wikibrowse	Faster page loading	<trac>10147</trac>			In the English and Spanish versions
Memorize	Game not transferred when loading a created game ticket	<trac>10302</trac>
Speak	crashes on AI	SL #2533
Sugar modem configuration	Seems to require a non blank entry into the username and password fields, just entering the letter a was enough
Help	Typo	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MelbXOclub18Dec10#Help_activity

Backwards compatibility tests

Migrate Journal entries stored on a storage device in 0.82

One possible use case: A learner/teacher has been backing up Journal entries to a USB-stick in Sugar 0.82, included in the 8.2.* OLPC builds.

More info about the issue and how to test it can be found here.

Name	Works?	Comment
Pierre-Paul-Jacques	yes/no	None

Update from previous releases

Here please report back about upgrades you did from previous OLPC builds. You can get a 0.82 image from gg-802-1 or a 10.1.2 build from here. You can use olpc-update to update to a new build. In the Terminal activity just type in one of the commands from below:

sudo olpc-update 10.1.3_xo1.5-3NN

sudo olpc-update 10.1.3_xo1-3NN

Name	From which version	Works?	Comment
Simon	10.1.2, XO-1.5, 2g image	no	No space left on device. Will redo with a 4g image.
Simon	10.1.2, XO-1.5, 4g image	yes	Journal updated correctly, Language setting (French) was kept
Simon	gg-802-1	mostly	Journal updated correctly, Language setting (French) was not kept was English then
Simon	10.1.2, XO-1.5, 4g image	yes	Done with the usb offline update
skierpage	10.1.2, XO-1	yes	sudo olpc-update 10.1.3_xo1-360 succeeded on "irsync_pristine update"; had 104MB free in / before, and 111M after reboot and the prompted Software update.

Connectivity: Different Internet connections

You should test here if you can connect with a WEP and WPA/WPA2 network, if a wired connection is possible and the 3G connection test can be logged here, too.

Please note that disabling the XO's internal 802.11 "Radio" in the Sugar Network control panel may disable the ability to use any networking adapter automatically due to the need to work around various other networking issues (#10549). To test external (typically USB based) network adapters either (1) manually configure them or (2) do not disable the "Radio" checkbox while testing them.

Name	AccessPoint/Router	Connectivity Type	Works?	Comment
Kevin Gordon	Apple Airport Extreme	WPA/WPA2	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5
Kevin Gordon	D-Link USBT100x Dongle	Ethernet	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5 - USBID: 2001:3c05
Kevin Gordon	Linksys USB DubE100 Dongle	Ethernet	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5 - USBID: 066b:2203
Kevin Gordon	ASIX Zoltantech ZU80 Dongle	Ethernet	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5 - USBID: 0b95:7720
Samuel Greenfeld	Netgear FA101 USB Adapter	Ethernet	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5 - USBID: 0846:1020
Gonzalo Odiard	D-Link DIR-600	WPA/WPA2	yes	Both 1.0 and 1.5
garycmartin	D-Link DSL-G604T	WEP	yes	Just tested XO-1
Melbourne Testing	3G USB		yes	XO1 (does require dummy entries an user and password fields)

Language Test

If you are a native speaker for a specific language shipped in the OLPC builds we would be happy to hear back from you about how well the 10.1.3 worked for you. You can use the "Missing translation" field to indicate a missing string.

Name	Language	Completed (percentage)	Missing translation	Comment
Pierre-Paul-Jacques	Spanish	99%	Browse download alert.	None
Simon	French	not tested the overall completion yet	CP: Switch to GNOME Button not displayed correctly in all the languages <trac>10544</trac>	Is probably true for other languages, too.

Track Power Usage

Richard Smith did put up the following testing request to track power usage when you run your test suite on the XOs (1 and 1.5). With new builds its very easy. Starting with os356 and beyond. Here are the steps you need to add into your testing procedure:

1. Start with a full charged XO that is plugged up to external power.
2. Boot the system up and either go to a VT or start up a Terminal activity.
3. At the shell prompt type: sudo powerd-config =new-pwrlog "<comment about the log>"

<comment> can be any descriptive text you want to use about the log. Its mostly just for a human looking at the log. Things like what build, what XO, what battery, etc are automatically added in the log so none of that does has to be in the comment. Perhaps your name and any special circumstances surrounding the test.

1. Unplug the XO from external power.
2. Run all of your test suites.
3. After your final test run is complete either shut the laptop down or

do another 'sudo powerd-config =new-pwrlog' to flush the log file.

I think I would prefer if you did a shutdown because then I have a nice marker for a successful run.

Then tar up all the files in the ~olpc/power-logs and send them to Richard or upload them somewhere on dev.l.o.

Its not necessary to have one run per log file or anything like that. Just start on a full battery and go until either you are running out of battery or you are done with your testing.

I just want to get some data on what the power usage distribution looks like when people are using the new builds.

If you have to restart the laptop for some reason then don't worry about making another new log with 'powerd-config =new-pwrlog' powerd will create a new log when it starts up and I should be able to piece them together manually.

Name	Upload location (none if sent by email)	Comment
Simon	http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/pwr-SHC005008EF-101213_082100.csv	None
Tony	http://www.box.net/shared/pzmn2vatu9	None

Sound

Of interest is here to test the sound on the XO-1 and XO-1.5 for differences and to test all the activities that does produce sound (e.g. TamTam, Memorize, Espeak, Etoys).

Name	Activity	Works?	Comment
Pierre-Paul-Jacques	TamTam	yes/no	None
Melbourne testing	Distance	no	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MelbXOclub18Dec10#Distance_activity

GNOME Breakability Issues -- options and actions breaking Gnome and Sugar

In 10.1.3 a focus was on making switching between Sugar and GNOME smooth and that settings a user does under GNOME has no side effect on Sugar and the other way around.

Leaving notes in this section can be done by more than one person, just separate name and result by a column.

Bug	Description	TestCase	Works?	Tester	Comment
<trac>10290</trac>	GNOME: Disable nm-applet keychain warning	TestCase	yes	Simon	No need to type a password for the keyring.
<trac>10531</trac>	Hide ~/Activities in GNOME that they can not be erased and render Sugar unusable	TestCase	yes	Simon	Verified that the folder is hidden in Gnome and that I could write to it in Sugar.
<trac>10532</trac>	Sync networking state between Sugar and GNOME	TestCase	yes	Simon	I did disable the networking in GNOME and was able to enable it again in Sugar and the other way around.
<trac>10539</trac>	Gnome: panels that have been removed are restored on the next login	TestCase	yes	Simon	Removed the top panel and it was restored on the next login.
<trac>10545</trac>	Gnome: if the font size is > 20 or < 4 restore on next login.	TestCase	yes	Simon	Made the window title bigger bigger than 20 and the font size was restored on next login.

Bug Fix testing

For particular bugs you can indicate your test results in this section. This can be done by more than one person, just separate name and result by a column.

Bug	Description	Works?	Tester	Comment
<trac>1</trac>	Example	yes, yes, no, yes	Martin, Simon, Gonzalo, Sam	None
<trac>10312</trac>	Journal: Show alert when error occurs while writing to external devices	yes	Gonzalo	There are a error trying to copy to a protected device, but not trying to delete or rename in the same device
<trac>10140</trac>	External device large Journal does not display	yes	Gonzalo	Tested with a SD card with 23.000 files
<trac>10350</trac>	Connect to gabble immediately when possible	yes/no	Name	None
<trac>6857</trac>	Register a laptop with the schoolserver after trying on the wrong network	yes/no	Name	None
<trac>10351</trac>	Journal: Feedback when deleting files on an external device	yes	Gonzalo	None
<trac>10372</trac>	Arabic: Do not break if the string contains no conversion specifier	yes	Simon	None
<trac>10346</trac>	Activity: Save title when closing	yes	Gonzalo	None
<trac>8733</trac>	Journal: Disable start option for entries that can't be opened	yes	Gonzalo	None
<trac>10308</trac>	Remove shared activity from the neighborhood view when no members left	yes	Gonzalo	The activity _and_ the buddy icon disappear. The buddy icon must remain visible.
<trac>10308</trac>	Remove shared activity from the neighborhood view when no members left	partial	garycmartin	If activity is shared via _private_ invite both activity and buddy icon disappear on invitees neighborhood when they accept (likely a different bug?). Activity icon still remains in neighborhood view for owner if owner left first.
<trac>889</trac>	Deal with unicode nick names	yes/no	Name	None
<trac>10412</trac>	Sugar Ad-hoc icons show in search results when connect/disconnect to AP	yes	Gonzalo	None
<trac>10486</trac>	Journal bundle removal won't remove installed activity	yes	Gonzalo, garycmartin	None

How to write a good bug report

If you find new bugs please file them at http://dev.laptop.org.

You should note the following in the bug report:

• the version you are using
• steps to reproduce

In most cases it is of interest to the developers to look at the Sugar (shell.log) and/or the Activity logs (e.g. org.laptop.AbiWordActivity-1.log for the Write activity). The logs are placed in '/home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs'. You can view the logs using the Log activity as well.