Pulseaudio 2.1 Testing

[Nicholas Skaggs]

I hope John doesn't mind me sharing his question, since it's a good one :-)

 From google,
/Smoke testing is non-exhaustive software testing, ascertaining that the 
most crucial functions of a program work, but not bothering with finer 
details/

I think that sums up what I mean when I say smoke tests. In practice, 
you'll find the smoketests to be a series of yes/no questions. This 
differs from the step-by-step instructions with actions and expected 
results of our normal testcases. Those tests (like for example, iso 
testing), are meant to cover as many details as possible to find out any 
and all bugs. When we test something as large as the kernel or audio, we 
typically utilize testcases that are more in line with smoke-testing to 
ensure general compatibility and functionality. Make sense?

Now, this probably belongs on our wiki someplace. Phil? Others? Ideas?

Nicholas


On 08/07/2012 06:32 PM, John Kim wrote:
>
> It may sound silly, but what are smoke tests?
>
> On Aug 7, 2012 3:23 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs" 
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     For those of you running quantal looking for something easy to
>     test (outside of the iso testing going on this week :-) ),
>     consider testing the new version of pulseaudio for quantal. The
>     testcase is simple and is located here:
>
>     http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/225/builds/20458/testcases
>
>     It's a basic series of smoketests. Details on how to use the
>     qatracker are here:
>
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/CallforTesting/Walkthrough
>
>     As always if you need help, email myself or the list. Cheers!
>
>     Nicholas
>
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