Testing
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.
For the latest tests, see Update.1 tests.
Release info
Major Release 8.2.0
- 8.2.0 Features, on top of XO_Base_Features of 8.1.1
- TestPlan_8.2.0
- Test cases 8.2.0
- TestResults_8.2.0
- New features in 8.2.0
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
Community Testing:
Test beds:
- Creating a testbed
- Wireless_Sparse_Testbed - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Older community efforts (should be updated to the new test template):
Links of Interest to Testing
- 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
- Update.1 tests - test process for the 8.1.0/Update.1 builds (builds 691...703)
- Release Notes/8.1.0 - release notes for 8.1.0 also known as "Update.1"
- Testing_Update.1_Results - some test results for Update.1 (in progress...)
- OLPC Ship.2 Software Release Notes - release notes for Ship2, build 650
- 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:
- OLPC Archives
- "8.2" builds
- Recent stable builds
- "Update.1" builds
- "Bleeding-edge" builds
- "Candidate" builds before they go public
Activities script/latest activities:
- From a laptop that is connected to the internet, start a Terminal Activity and type: wget http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/sucrose-activities.py
- Then type: python sucrose-activities.py
- Link to Latest Activities
Notes and minutes
- Test meeting Minutes - Weekly meetings of interested test people, Mondays 1pm EDT
Many related pages need to be merged:
To merge: Testing | Testing ideas | Friends in testing
See also: Sugar Labs testing | the Testing mailing list
This is temporary place for a sample of the test case format. Actual test cases, created in a different format, can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0
Test results are reported here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestResults_8.2.0
Test area: Sugar Control Panel
| Number/Title | 1/Change Timezone | |
| Objective | Verify that the user can change their XO's timezone from the default UTC setting. | |
| Feature | Users are able to change their XO's timezone to match the local time without having to go into a terminal to do so. | |
| Source | http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Date_.26_Time] | |
| Approach | Act as an end-user trying to change the XO's timezone to match the local time. | |
| Test Tools | No test tools required. | |
| Test Setup | One XO laptop running an 8.2.0 (pre-)release build. | |
| Test Procedure | 1. Open the graphical Sugar Control Panel from the Home view. 2. Click on the "Date & Time" panel. | |
| Expected Results & Pass Criteria | The timezone for the laptop has been changed correctly and the timezone is represented properly by the 'date' command. | |
| Comments | ||
Items to Test
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
- File:B3-B4 OLPC Test Plan.xls - Low Level Test Plan
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
Test Case Management System
To add categories to the Test Case pull down menu, click here:
Property:Test_category
To add streams to the Test Case form, click here:
Property:Build_stream
How to build queries: TestCase_Queries
For other examples of queries, see Testcase Query Examples
Comments at Semantic MediaWiki#Suggestions_for_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.
Also See
GSOC08 OLPC Project Automated Testing
Older notes
- Test process sprint- Wed, Oct 17th, 2007
Reporting test results (Old; deprecated)
To report results from a set of test cases, add a line to the appropriate table in the test case pages below with a quick summary; and include details, including setup and test team, on the talk page.
- 8.1.1 Features to be Tested
- Update.1 tests
- Ship2.2 test cases - complete
- User-focused test plans:
- User-focused test plans are being developed for all the basic features of the laptop, for many of the activities, and for the interaction with the school server, collaboration, connectivity, etc. Please follow the User-Focused Test Plans page to read, review, and help create test plans.