Questions about testing

[Tobias]

but wubi testing is preferred on real hardware, right??




Am 14.08.2012 12:06, schrieb 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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>>      <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com>>
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