Questions about testing

[Ho Wan Chan]

Mart,

Use Gema's opinion: She's an official Canonical employee, while I am only a
active community tester...

2012/8/14 Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>

> Hi Mart,
>
> I disagree with Ho Wan Chan, here is my opinion.
>
> On 14/08/12 10:13, "Mart Küng" wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a couple of questions about how to configure my machine when
> testing.
> > Is there a significant difference if any between testing in virtual
> > machine and installing on real hardware?
>
> On virtual machines you are testing some parts of Ubuntu. On real
> hardware you are testing others, in fact, depending on which hardware
> you have, you are increasing our chances of finding problems for your
> specific HW, because we don't have infinite HW to test on. Basically,
> when you test on HW you are using drivers that noone else is potentially
> using.
>
> In the Platform QA Team in Canonical, we are testing with VMs for the
> daily ISO testing, and we test on a variety of HW the different kernel
> SRUs, so that we are reasonably confident that they will work on a wide
> variety of HW.
>
> Testing on HW is different from testing on VMs, both useful depending on
> what you are trying to achieve, since with ISO testing we are trying to
> cover as much HW as we can, testing on HW will be more useful from that
> viewpoint.
>
> >
> > Would it be reasonable to dual boot version I'm testing with my regular
> > everyday system? I ask this because of my netbook: on my desktop I could
> > easily use virtual machine or change HDD-s. But netbook is to weak for
> > virtual machine and changing HDD seams to troublesome.
>
> You can dual boot your everyday system, but there are risks that an
> installation goes wrong and you blow up your current system. That is the
> reason why we don't recommend it. If you are confident you know your
> system and that won't happen to you, I still recommend you have backups
> of all the important documents before attempting the testing along your
> existing system. Other than that, it is very useful that you install the
> current version along an existing one, because many users will be doing
> just that, and we want them to be able to do it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gema
>
> >
> > Mart
> >
> >
>
>
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