[Testing] Community-based testing of OLPC activities

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Grig Gheorghiu 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.

Sure.  Possible.  I'll look at this.  The two big things:

* Must be trivial to create an account, which it seems to be;
* Must be trivial to put a watch on pages.

If this is true, I'm all for it.  No time to dedicate to this today, but 
I'll be spending most of my time tomorrow on it.

I'll choose the trac wiki unless (a) it doesn't meet the two criteria 
above, or (b) someone presents a compelling reason not to use it, or (c) I 
get hip-deep and find a showstopper, in which case I'll go back to the 
standard wiki.

--g

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Greg DeKoenigsberg
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