[olpc-nz] Testing Summary - Wellington, 9 Oct 2010

Fri Oct 8 23:43:42 EDT 2010

Really nice day today!

Attendees:
 - Tim, Alastair, Kristina, Grant

Non-testing activities:
 - Introduced OLPC/Sugar to a teacher and a few kids
 - Introduced Wtgn folk to the test request page, seemed to be support for
it
 - Discussion on using luggage tags so that we can identify which computer
   belongs to who from the outside
 - Bare beginnings of testing manual (at bottom of message)

## spirolaterals-2
Tim =>
 - perhaps rename activity to "spin", in keeping with Sugar HIG
   (Activities as verbs)
 - the background of icon while loading seems to pulse while loading
 - immediate thought: seems like a matching game, how do I make my turtle
   move?
 - had to click around on a few things before anything responded

 Here is a recording of things that I discovered..
   - "cyan" gives me a new puzzle
   - hints can appear => thought: oh, the *are* significant
   - "green" means go
   - "black" means refresh (?)
   - ah! the turtle does its own looping! (orignally thought I needed
     to tell the turtle some how to loop a few times
   - the turtle only turns right?

Alastair =>
 - confused at first about the purpose of each of the buttons
 - clicking on the wizard brings up hints

## filemix-2
Tim =>
 - perhaps rename activity to "mix", in keeping with Sugar HIG
   (Activities as verbs)
 - neat icon
 - no pulsing icon on load :(
 - immediate thoughts: super cool concept
 - perhaps use the user's colours, rather than olive green for the buttons?
 - had no files to test with

 - *lots* of text
   - I would like to tuck lots of this away in future versions
   - "You are urged to make your own"
     - perhaps reference a sound recording activity?
   - "midi device required"
     - how do I know if I have one?
     - shouldn't the activity be able to let me know?

 - suggestions for future versions:
  - make files selectable, renaming to soundin.1, ...  ,soundin.4 is a lot
of work
  - run through a diagnostics dialogue with sample files:
    - can you hear this? MIDI, MP3, OGG, WAV, ...

Alastair =>
 - no audio to test with

## juegos_flash-2
 - coloured icon
 - flash would wouldn't render the chess board at the start
 - seems to be a compilation of non-free flash games from various sites
 - gnash gave me English menus, everything else in Spanish

 - "Penales"
   - "All rights reserved Flashfooty.com" FTW
   - games failed to load after 20 secs

 - "Penales2"
  -  "Games1.com" Ad ??
  - in English
  - selecting a team didn't seem to do anything

 - "EncontrarObjectos"
   - failed to load in < 20 secs on XO-1.5

 - "Bar"
   - "Welcome to our pre-party cocktail mixing game for cocktail
     connoisseurs... or not as the case may be!" - omg, it's actually
     a game about alcohol consumption
   - kinda cute, in it's own way. Provides instructions along the way,
     which is what I had expected from spirolaterals

 - "Cocinarpizza"
   - seemed unresponsive to the XO's mousepad

 - "Ajedrez"
   - argh, flashing chess game again

 - "Futbal"
   - ran very slowly
   - when missing a goal, the text is "undefined"

 - "Tesoro"
   - loaded well, a little slow on XO-1.5
   - teacher seemed to be silent

 - "Pes2002"
   - heavily screen flickering (gave up after 20sec)

 - "Bolos"
   - failed to load once "Play" was clicked"

 - "QueHariasConTuEx"
   - from "whackyourex.com"
   - game does what it says

## F14/SoaS 4

Tim =>
 - x86_84 failed to loaded
 - i386 takes a *long* time to load from the .iso

 - icon is the native Fedora icon until the Home view loads
 - have been asked to enter a new keyring password (obsessively

 # Frame
  - selecting 'My Settings' from frame resulted in the computer
    crashing

 # My settings
   - horizontal scrolling is annoying

   "Language"
     - languages are in English
     - took a while to load
     - restart dialogue: does it need to say "Warning"?

   "Software update"
     - appears to check things properly, but doesn't allow me to
       actually conduct an upgrade. The screen just goes blank.

 # changed to german
   - long time to load, screen went blank for about 20s a few times and
     flicked between a "thinking" icon, boot-up text, keyring password
     dialogue with assorted random character goodness
   - possibly disable the language option on the SoaS iso
   - restarted the VM, things worked find

Kristina =>
 - hard to get .iso file playing nicely on the Macbook.

## visualmatch-36
Alastair =>
  - needs a bigger indicator that the game is finished

Kristina =>
  - seems to work really well

Grant =>
  - couldn't find any bugs
  - it's hard on hard!

## sliderule-21
Kristina =>
 - failed to load: log exerpt :-

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the
sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
1286581194.867893 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
1286581197.192313 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
    main.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 147,
in main
    create_activity_instance(activity_constructor, activity_handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 35,
in create_activity_instance
    activity = constructor(handle)
  File "/home/olpc/Activities/Sliderule.activity/SlideruleActivity.py", line
161, in __init__
    self._setup_toolbars(_have_toolbox)
  File "/home/olpc/Activities/Sliderule.activity/SlideruleActivity.py", line
610, in _setup_toolbars
    edit_toolbar_button, accelerator='<Ctrl>c')
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'edit_toolbar_button' referenced before
assignment

## Journal
On XO (802.b6)
we discovered that the Journal gets confuse when there are mutliple versions
of the same activity on a USB stick.

## View source
Tim =>
 - .pyo files are still selectable.
      Should we grey things out that are not in plain text?

-----

Testing Manual

There are two types of tests that people generally do when we are supporting
OLPC and Sugar Labs.

 - general mucking about:
   - we want to learn if there are any behviours that seem normal to the
     software developers that doen't seem normal to new users, especially
     kids.
   - we want to hold activites to a consistent standard. This means that
     buttons do what they say they do.

 - regression testing:
   - testing that a fix to bug actually fixes the problem it says it does
   - testing that a fix doesn't cause something else to reoccur
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