Testing

The contents of this page are considered outdated and some of the information may be stale. Please use information here with caution, or update it.

  This page is monitored by the OLPC team.

The community and core team work through a slate of test issues for each major build and release. This page highlights the current tests being run, the testing process in general, and how to contribute your own results or bugs.

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	13.2.11	2020-01-29
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	xs-0.7	2012-02-20

Release info

Testing for release 11.3.1

Testers are reporting test results on the testing mailing list or by reporting bugs.

They are not using Test group release notes.

Testing for release 11.2.0

See Test_cases/11.2 for information about testing the 11.2.0 release.

Testing for the 10.1.x releases

• 10.1.3/Testing for Category:Community testing of the 10.1.3 release
• Smoke_test/10.1.x/1_hour_smoke_test

Testing for major release 8.2.0

• New features in 8.2.0, on top of XO_Base_Features of 8.1.1
• TestPlan 8.2.0
• Test cases 8.2.0, a set of test cases developed in the wiki
• TestResults 8.2.0

Testing for minor releases 8.1.x

• Release 8.1.3, OLPC SW-ECO 7, More Amharic support
• Release 8.1.2, OLPC SW-ECO 6, Nand-full, SD card corruption, support of C3 production boards
• Release 8.1.1, OLPC SW-ECO 5, Amharic and Kreyol support
  • Release notes for 8.1.1

Testing for release 8.1.0

Release 8.1.0 was also known as "Update.1", see Update.1 tests for tests and Testing Update.1 Results.

Community testing

People interested in testing should join the Testing mailing list, which is also mirrored on an external forum.

The awesome New Zealand testers use a very simple Activity testing template.

• Systematic testing

Test beds:

• Creating a testbed
• Wireless Sparse Testbed - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Ejabberd resource tests/try_5 school server jabber testing

Older obsolete community efforts:

• Community testing
• Friends in testing
• Activity testing project
• Testing matrix
• Activity testing template

Links of Interest to Testing

• Creating new test cases
• Test Config Notes - Links to configuration info that are useful in testing
• Test Group Release Notes - Quick info/smoke test on the latest builds. Read this before you bother to load a build
• Different upgrade paths and which to use
  • Also see Builds of Interest below
• Multi-hop mesh network in MIT campus
• Networking scenarios
• Simple mesh test (Cerebro)
• School Server general info: XS
  • Schoolserver Testing
• 100 Laptop Testbed:
  • Collaboration_Network_Testbed
  • Peabody Setup - 100 laptop test setup in Peabody, MA
• Activation and Developer Keys - how to activate or get a developer key
• Scenario taxonomy
• Requirements (no longer used)

Equipment specs:

• Infrastructure_AP: Zoom 4400 AP+2 Wireless-G Access Point (Approx. $50 USD)
• Long range Wireless: Wavion’s WS410 Spatially Adaptive Wi-Fi Access Point (Approx. $1600 USD)
• Server HW Specs

Builds of interest

See OS images for build streams, release candidates, joyride builds, etc.

For latest activities, run Software update in Sugar Control Panel, or download individual Activities.

Older builds and activities

• "Update.1" builds
• "Ship.2" builds

Activities script/latest activities for 8.1:

• http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/sucrose-activities.py
• Latest 0.81.4 activities (July 2008)

Notes and minutes

• Testing meetings - Weekly meetings of interested test people, usually Thursdays

General navigation

Test cases 8.2.0 lists the test cases created for the recent release 8.2.0.

Test results are in TestResults 8.2.0

The {{Community testing}} navigation template is shown below:

  This page is part of the OLPC Community testing Project. How to test an Activity | Reporting test results | Meetings

The navigation template {{Test-nav}} is shown below, it should be updated and many related pages need to be merged:

Activity testing project | Testing matrix | Activity testing guide | Activity testing template +/-

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To merge: Testing | Testing ideas | Friends in testing

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See also: Sugar Labs testing | the Testing mailing list

Test cases and test results

Mid-2008 users including Femslade, Charlie, and Kimquirk created test cases for 8.2.0 that can be created and modified using a form. Testers can also use the same form to add testing results, see Reporting test results.

See, e.g. Tests/Activity/Write/Public_sharing as a sample.

All these test cases are in Category:Test cases and most are listed by the queries in Test cases 8.2.0.

In 2007 and early 2008, tests were just wiki pages, e.g. Tests/Browse. Those older test cases are mostly in Category:Test Plans and/or Category:Tests.

Test case management

To add test categories to the pull down menu in Form:Test case, modify Property:Test category

To add stream checkboxes to Form:Test case, modify Property:Build stream

To build queries that list test cases, edit TestCase Queries and copy the {{#ask: ... }} markup. For other examples of queries, see Testcase Query Examples

Comments at Semantic MediaWiki#Issues for Test cases.

Testing areas

These "User stories" tests date from 2007-2008

High level topics for "User stories testing" can be divided into a few major categories:

One Hour Smoke Test

1. Smoke test links to the 1-hour smoke test for different releases, and other smoke tests.

Networks

1. Tests/100 laptops

Views and visualizations

1. Home view
2. Groups view
3. Neighborhood view
4. Frame

Mime Types

1. Mime Types test from yolinux.com

• What should go into Mime Type tests

Battery Life

Base line test for battery life. Boot up the machines, fully charge, remove the adapters and see how long the battery lasts.

• Battery Results
  • File:Baseline battery test.pdf
    

Regular processes

1. Tests/Start up and Activation
2. Test Basic Operation
3. Tests/Connectivity and Collaboration
4. Tests/Archive, Backup, Content
5. Tests/Invite

International Laptops

1. Tests/Keyboard mappings
2. Tests/Language settings

Upgrading

1. From last stable build
2. Tests/Backward_Comp

Hardware and firmware

1. Tests/SD card
2. Tests/SD card acting as a usb drive in card reader
3. Tests/USB stick
4. Tests/Manufacturing Data
5. Tests/Suspend and resume

Network/Time Sync

1. Tests/Time sync
2. Tests/Network mgr

SchoolServer

In-house testing (from 2007?)

Old?

Areas that we need to test in house (due to the use of special equipment and quantities of laptops) include:

• All keyboards. - Test: Keyboard Settings
  • Keys match the layouts designed
  • Language, keyboard, keymappings match the settings
  • All language and keyboard settings are preserved across updates
• Languages - Test: Language Settings
• Firmware
  • WPA - Richardo/Michailis
  • WEP - Richardo/Michailis
  • Mesh - upgrade under loaded network - Scott
  • Suspend/resume - Wad - Test: Suspend/resume
• Scaling/performance
  • Jabber server scaling - OLPC/Collabora
  • Link local presence (Salut) - OLPC/Collabora
  • Journal/datastore
• Upgrades /backward compatibility
• Security

Other test plans

• 802.11s Connectivity Test Plan - Connectivity, wifi protocol from 2007
• File:B3-B4 OLPC Test Plan.xls - Low level test plan from 2007
• Tinderbox Testing - automated testing for each build (outdated) --Chihyu 13:58, 29 January 2008 (EST)
• XMPP collaboration and scalability testing - XMPP collaboration and scalability testing
• see Category:Tests and Category:Test Plans TODO: These older test plans should be marked obsolete or merged into test cases.

Schedule

Please see the official roadmap (from the trac main page) for schedule dates and features for each release.

Test setups

This section covers generic ways to set up before running different kinds of tests. (These are not specific test cases, but can be used as shorthand references to common procedures that are used across many test cases.

• Test Config Notes
• Memory leak testing
• Olpc-update
• Clean-install procedure

See also

• GSOC08 OLPC Project Automated Testing
• Test process sprint for 2007 first software release- Wed, Oct 17th, 2007