[Testing] Community-based testing of OLPC activities

Grig Gheorghiu grig at gheorghiu.net
Wed Nov 7 17:03:23 EST 2007


--- Kim Quirk <kim.quirk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> Thanks for putting this together. I think the matrix of test plans is
> a good idea. We had tried to create something like this at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Stories_Testing site. Yours is a more
> friendly and probably easier to use, so it would be great if you can
> incorporate your look/style with the test plans and info that are
> there.
> 
> My biggest issue with a wiki based test case management system is
> that
> you can't easily track results. Test cases are rarely run once -- but
> need to be run many times after pretty much any code changes that
> might affect it. If there is some way to hook this 'result' page into
> a test case management database, then we would get the best of both
> worlds. Easy update, easy run and good reporting on a wiki page.
> 

How about using Trac as the wiki dedicated to testing? Trac does a
fairly good job as a ticket/issue tracking database. And there's
support for linking bugs/issues very easily within wiki text.

Grig


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