reflecting on first UDS session on "rolling releases"

Jono Bacon jono at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 6 04:07:36 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> What percentage of code in the default install is covered by automated tests?

I am not sure, maybe the QA team can weigh in on this.

> For a relatively small project, such approaches are conceivable.  For
> something the size of an installed Ubuntu (pick your favorite flavor) system, I
> think we're a long ways away from being sufficiently instrumented with tests.

I agree: I think automated testing is going to be essential here to
*assure* quality across the system. I think we would need ensure that
we have good test coverage across the core components.

   Jono

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