Questions about testing

[Gema Gomez]

On 14/08/12 11:04, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> Mart,
>  
> Use Gema's opinion: She's an official Canonical employee, while I am
> only a active community tester...

Hey, everyone's opinion count and is welcome!

More than a canonical employee I am a QA Engineer, I have been for many
years now, so I tried to give an explanation for a new comer from that
viewpoint, I hope everyone can benefit from it and I am open to
discussion if you guys think it may help.

Thanks everyone for your help,
Gema

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