[Testing] Community-based testing of OLPC activities

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Well, Trac supports the creation of issues/tickets out of the box.
That's what I was referring to, not necessarily the test manager
plugin.

Grig

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

> Yes... we did ask Danny (our Sysadmin) to try and load the 'test case
> manager' Trac extension and there were issues. I think it was SVN
> based or something(?). I thought that would be the quickest path to a
> test case mgmt system.
> 
> Copy Danny - do you remember what the issues were with the trac
> extension?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kim
> 
> 
> On Nov 7, 2007 5:03 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig at gheorghiu.net> wrote:
> > --- 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
> >
>