Talk:Testing

The main testing page is now just named testing as the sidebar suggests. --Sj talk 15:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Pages that this should link to

I'd like to start cleaning up this page, with a big overhaul happening Thursday morning 2008-10-02. Lots of links should be included somewhere in the testing wiki structure, list of things that may or may not currently be included on the Testing page are listed here, please add more. Tests and Test will redirect to Testing. -- September 2008 Mchua

• Friends in testing
• Sugarbot
• Tinderbox
• Systematic testing
• Testing checklist
• Hardware Testing
• Schoolserver Testing
• XO Self Test
• Smoke test
• 802.11s Connectivity Test Plan
• Peabody Setup
• Tests/100 laptops
• Networking scenarios
• Collaboration network testbed
• Mesh OLPC Testbed
• Scripts for testing multiple XOs

Tools

• dogtail
• wikislicing (for compiling documents of test cases from the wiki, etc)
• X11 GUI testing
• dancer's shell for remote testing
• Litmus, Mozilla's test case management tool.
• civicrm for large-scale casual test volunteer management?

Mchua 13:36, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Things a testing portal page should cover

Add ideas here please! Mchua 13:36, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

• The different things we do testing on
  • Hardware (XO, battery/power/charging, connectivity)
  • Software (Power management, OS, Sugar, Activities, collaboration, XS)
• Tools used (actual test tools plus test management tools)
  • Trac
  • Test case management system
  • Tinderbox
  • Test setups around 1cc and beyond
  • various olpc-$something scripts (olpc-pwr-log, etc)
• How testing fits into the release cycle
• Testing methodologies we do/should use
  • Coverage checks
  • Unit testing
  • System testing
  • Regression testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • Smoke testing
  • GUI testing
  • Boundary testing
  • Load/performance testing
• Getting involved
  • Test cases you can run and report now
  • More complex tests
  • Test-gang
  • Meetings/events?
  • Resources for learning more skills and more about testing
• Idea solicitation