[Testing] Test plan for 8.2.1 release

[Kimberley Quirk]

Great! Thanks, Mel.

Kim


On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Mel Chua wrote:

> 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
>