Test cases re-writing and classification

[Brendan Donegan]

Hi Gema,

I should probably remember this, but should we use the Google Doc for 
new test cases (I've got some proper test cases for gnome-terminal in my 
head)?

Thanks,

On 21/12/11 11:32, Gema Gomez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been doing some browsing of test cases in our wiki and found
> these ones:
> http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Applications/Terminal
>
> I was trying to figure out how to classify the test cases when we get
> them into Case Conductor and realized, that in this case in particular,
> the test cases are wrongly classified.
>
> Take for instance, ter-001 test case, it says it affects gnome-terminal,
> and whilst I can see we are opening and closing the terminal, my
> impression is that test case is targeting sudo, apt-get, ls and bash,
> rather than the gnome-terminal.
>
> I think we need to start removing this kind of test case and adding
> tests that actually target the packages we are trying to test, so that
> if we decide to classify test cases based on the package they are
> testing, we have a clear view of those. Another alternative is to add
> all the affected packages to the list, not just the main one. I
> understand this was difficult with the current wiki, but in Case
> Conductor we will have more flexibility to assign test cases to more
> than one package.
>
> I hope you all have a nice holiday!
> Gema
>
>