[OLPC-AU] Fwd: Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Hey everyone,

The OLPC-NZ team regularly meets for testing sessions. Here's an
example of their summaries.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz>
Date: 25 September 2010 20:10
Subject: Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010
To: OLPC testing <testing at lists.laptop.org>, olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org,
Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au>, Walter Bender
<walter.bender at gmail.com>, rtnpro at gmail.com


Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010
Who: Fabiana, Calvin, Leslie, Liz, John, Nevyn, Robin, Tabitha, Tom

Wordgroupz:
failed to start, both copying to journal and trying to start from USB
on os373pyg, got logs
Tried on build 852 but it still didn't work
No icon appears in the activity ring on either build

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Tested backup-4 and restore-3 on 2 XO-1.0s with 1 USB stick
Backup: you have to choose the storage device then press the button
that looks like keep
it then says "backing up Journal to /media... etc
Shows x/x number of files but gives no message to say when backup is
complete, it did create a backup onto the usb and named it with the XO
name and some numbers with .xmj extension
Restore: opened activity and it says "no bundle selected. please close
this activity and choose a bundle to restore from the journal"
Tried to click on the file on the usb that says it is the journal
backup for this laptop - it seems to open the restore activity but
hard to tell as not labelled as such in the frame
found a restore journal button in the activity, clicked it and get the
message "restoring journal from
/home/olpc/.sugar/default/data/" a whole lot of numbers then ".xmj"
- that file location is not the usb drive, so we assume that opening
the file on the usb is actually copying it to the journal
Tried to restore the same journal file on another XO but it doesn't
let you (deliberate we think)
Second XO Backup: Tried backing up this second XO onto usb, then
deleted most of journal. Ran the restore and it seems to work but it
on both XOs we get two copies of the .xmj journal backup file in the
Journal.
Found another option for restore - in the Journal you can use the
arrow right to get to the kind of more information view (with a
preview, description and tags) and then where the play button (start)
is a drop down option of restore appears
Basically they worked, though it was a bit confusing that you don't
open restore and then choose the file on the USB.  Some instructions
for the user might be helpful - when you open the backup activity
would be good to click a question mark and see explanation of
activity, like what happens in the finance activity. Also, there was
no obvious notification that the backup file creation was completed.

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Turtle Art 99
First a question - what is the difference between turtle art and turtle blocks?
Installed on os373pyg XO-1.0 and a few os852 XO-1.0s - seems to rename
itself to turtle blocks
Found some XOs have a different display to others, on build 852 it has
menus and on build 373pyg it has buttons. There is no erase option on
the turtle activity in the list view of all the activities in dextrose
373pyg, however there is an erase option for turtle activity on os852.
Although they are both showing as version 99 they are different which
is a bit confusing.
Moving the blocks around we were not sure what to do if you could not
see the start block anymore (dragged off the screen and it is hidden
by the buttons). Tried using the full screen option, hide/show blocks,
didn't help. Found resize so blocks very big helped, then dragged them
about before resizing back to small blocks. It would be good if there
was a limit to the location of blocks or if you could change your view
coordinates or if there was a reset blocks to left/right/middle
button, or a resize blocks to fit the screen button (perhaps in the
view tab).
Tried to test turtle art / blocks 99 in german and spanish but there
is no german and there are lots of spanish options. Guessed a Spanish
translation to test.

Here is Fabiana's report on turtle art:
>
> Loads as turtle blocks. It was a bit confusing at first.
> Created a path, and moved it up, but the 'start' went off screen and now I have
> Set language to Spanish (argentina). Repeated with setting language to Spanish (Bolivia).
> On actividad tab, mouse over on the turtle icon on top reads "tortuga alenta' I guess it is meant to say 'tortuga lenta' (slow turtle)
> On the turtle palette, block labelling: The clean button reads 'limpia' which is not an infinitive. (the infinitive is 'limpiar') while the rest of the verbs are in infinitive.
> In the colour palette black and white show as 'black' and 'white' instead of 'negro' and 'blanco'
> In the  'box' pallette 'turtle shell' not translated
> In the 'journal' palette: 'oculta bloques', oculta is not an infinitive, should be 'ocultar'
> In the help menu, the mouseover on the turtle pen etc is not fully translated: Eg: torguga: paleta the comandos de la tortuga is ok, but then I get pen: paleta de ordenes de la pluma (should read pluma: paleta de ordenes de la pluma) The only one fully translated is the 'turtle' one.
> Opened a file that i had created and saved in 'english' it loads already translated to spanish. (which is good)

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Here is Tom's report on collaboration:
>
> Tested collaboration on os852. Started off with send to friend.
> 1 Created a picture in record
> 2 Closed record activity
> 3 Renamed record activity in journal to "picture for anna" (you can see where this going)
> 4 Sent "picture" to anna (another xo)
> 5 Picture loads in "Browse" but is a whole lot of xml
> It turns out that we were sending the "activity" not the results of the activity. After sending the picture itself, things worked a lot better.
> Should it be possible to send a session of the Record activity to a friend? If so, should it load in Browse or in Record? I guess this is a special case of, should activity sessions be stored in the journal? Especially a relatively stateless activity like Record?
> While rummaging around in the logs, found a strange exception with the network manager, http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2369 and many more that I didn't report (next time).

Another full on testing event. Thanks everyone.

Tabitha