Test Cases Spreadsheet

[Alex Lourie]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Gema Gomez
<gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>wrote:

> On 08/12/11 12:31, Alex Lourie wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Gema Gomez
> > <gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com
> > <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear all,
> >
> >     after some debate in #ubuntu-testing this morning, we've created a
> >     spreadsheet for everyone to share whilst we are working on the new
> test
> >     case management system.
> >
> >     Please, feel free to access it and start rewriting test cases:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgtV30nnv18edFQzNVB4S2duOWNOT05zaHo3S0pNekE&authkey=CMTAtuoI&hl=en_US#gid=0
> >     <
> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgtV30nnv18edFQzNVB4S2duOWNOT05zaHo3S0pNekE&authkey=CMTAtuoI&hl=en_US#gid=0
> >
> >
> >     Let us know if there is any problem. If you feel some column is
> missing
> >     of something, fix it and let everyone know in the list.
> >
> >     Whenever you are done with a test case and want comments on it, set
> the
> >     Review Status to "FOR REVIEW", we can change it to "REVIEWED" once we
> >     are happy with the test case. When you have a chunk of them for
> review,
> >     send an email with the rows of the spreadsheet you want reviewed. We
> can
> >     coordinate the comments in the list, I think.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Gema
> >
> >     --
> >     Gema Gomez-Solano        <gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com
> >     <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>>
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> >
> > I have also created a notification trigger for myself, that would send
> > me daily digest of "Review Status" cells changes, so if someone requests
> > REVIEW I would know at the end of the day tops.
> >
> > --
> > Alex Lourie
>
> Thanks Alex, let's aim at re-writing as many as we can and after they
> are reviewed we can put them back on the wiki substituting the old ones,
> so that new test cases can be used for Alpha 2 testing.
>
>
I second that. I recommend prioritising here, so I believe it is better to
begin with ISO test cases, then continue to application test cases.
Moreover, we should probably prioritise the ISO cases as well, so we
concentrate on more important ones first.


> Once the new test case management system is up and running, we'll write
> a script to import the test cases into it. It is easy to export a
> spreadsheet to almost any format we like.
>
> That way, if the new tool allows us to classify test cases by categories
> or similar, it is easier on the spreadsheet than by going through the
> wiki one by one.
>
>
Maybe we should add categories to the spreadsheet document. Or, we can
probably do some kind of TestID->Category mapping.


> Thanks to everyone collaborating for this awesome start! Let's keep it up.
>
> Thanks,
> Gema
>
> --
> Gema Gomez-Solano        <gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>
> QA Team                  https://launchpad.net/~gema.gomez
> Canonical Ltd.           http://www.canonical.com
>

Awesome! I'll try to push it a bit over social networks too.

-- 
Alex Lourie
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