[Mageia-dev] Updates testing

Fri Jul 8 09:21:30 CEST 2011

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011, Stew Benedict wrote:
+
+> 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.
+
+Fedora has this :
+https://fedorahosted.org/beakerlib/
+
+