[Mageia-dev] Updates testing

Fri Jul 8 02:01:34 CEST 2011

On 07/07/2011 07:38 PM, andre999 wrote:
+>>>>> All tested, but without a testcase, some are hard to test.
+>>>>
+>>>> Yes, testcase need to be done for each package. Maybe we could have a
+>>>> wiki page to save all test cases, and use them when the same 
+>>>> package is
+>>>> updated again ?
+>>>
+>>> No need to put this on the wiki as it will be useless for 90% of 
+>>> them as an
+>>> update request must have a test case for the bug fixed, not for the 
+>>> whole
+>>> package.
+>>
+>> Yes, for the test about the bug fixed. But isn't there tests to check 
+>> for
+>> regressions ?
+>
+>
+> The general idea sounds good.
+> But that would make a pretty big wiki page, if we especially if we 
+> include big apps like LibreOffice & Postgresql.
+> Maybe link each bigger app to a standing bugz report for that purpose ?
+> It would be pretty hard to make even close to complete regression 
+> tests for bigger apps as well.  (imagine 599 tests for LibreOffice ...)
+>
+There once was a project at Mandriva where each packager was to supposed 
+to come up with a basic functionality test for his/her package(s), 
+although I don't think it got much traction aside from those of us who 
+were getting paid to work on the distro and whose manager made the tests 
+a deliverable.
+iirc there was even some automation framework so they they could be run 
+by machine.
+
+-- 
+Stew Benedict
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