[Testing] Test plan for 8.2.1 release

Mel Chua mel at laptop.org
Mon Dec 8 18:56:45 EST 2008


We've got an interim release (8.2.1, which is very tiny - mostly 
bugfixes) coming up, and we now have a test plan for it.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.1 which has been linked to 
from the ECO* and lists both test cases and (not-yet-existent) results. 
This is a first draft and subject to change, and no immediate action is 
required on it (mainly because we don't have a build to test yet) but 
this is just a heads-up for all those involved + anyone who's curious.

My personal goal is to make the 8.2.1 test plan as doable and executable 
by the community as possible - in other words, there shouldn't be any 
test case a random person with the necessary equipment can't sit down, 
read, and just /do/; there should be nothing special about me as an OLPC 
employee in 1cc that makes me more capable of running a test than J. 
Random Tester out in Fooville. (I realize it's far from that ideal at 
the moment, and that we might not get there, but it's a good thing to 
aim at.)

If you want to add another test case, see 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_new_test_cases (which I also just 
created by splitting the 8.2.0 page, leaving only 8.2.0-specific stuff 
there). Any test case with the 8.2.1 "Build stream" checkbox checked 
will appear in this list.

Please holler with changes, suggestions, feedback, and the like; I plan 
on going through this once more tomorrow after 8am and making sure the 
test plan matches up with the ECO.

Cheers,

--Mel

*for the uninitiated: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_Change_Order - the one for this 
release is at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ECO/8.2.1.

-- 
Mel Chua
QA/Support Engineer
mel at laptop.org



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