Application Testing - wiki pages and QA website

[Scott Ritchie]

Ara Pulido wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> On 12/14/2009 08:30 AM, Ara Pulido wrote:
>> Hello Scott,
>>
>> Thanks for noticing this.
>>
>> On 12/13/2009 11:41 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>>> While editing the testing wiki pages I was creating a section for
>>> Application Testing when I noticed that
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Applications and
>>> http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Applications appear to be two different
>>> things.
>>>
> 
> Reading your Activities page [1], I have seen that you use Application
> Testing as Regression Testing.
> 
> "Application Testing is the manual testing of specific things (test
> cases) in particular applications that shouldn't break from one release
> to the next."
> 
> I think in activities this should be called Manual Regression Testing,
> pointing to a page which explains what is regression testing and linking
> testcases.qa.ubuntu.com as possible test cases.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 

You're quite right that this is usually described as regression testing.
 I do think most of our defined application test cases are essentially
regression tests, so we can probably talk about both in the same place.

We run into a similar issue with the test suite for Wine - "are they
regression tests, or are they just tests?"  The answer is usually "if
they passed at least once, they're regression tests."

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie