Quality Community

[Nicholas Skaggs]

I wanted to cross-post this to our list as well, as it contains some 
pertinent info, as well as what I've written on my blog post this afternoon:

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/kick-starting-quality-for-ubuntu-touch.html

In short, let's leverage our knowledge of manual and automated testing 
for the new platform.. Starting with the core applications. We'll also 
be getting into hardware testing, writing some cool automated tests 
using umockdev (https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev) and autopilot if 
we can, and in general smoke testing and dogfooding the images and apps 
as they come. But there's no reason to wait! We can be involved now and 
stay informed with what's happening on the platform, as well as working 
with the developers to keep things humming along nicely. There's plenty 
of cool stuff to do, enjoy and test no matter what skills you bring to 
the table, and it's all happening now.

I'm excited about being a part of making sure ubuntu touch is an amazing 
platform -- I know I want a ubuntu phone, and we can be a big part of 
making it a nice experience.

Squirming with excitement,

Nicholas

On 03/13/2013 07:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> Just wanted to drop by the list to say hello and introduce myself and 
> everyone else in ubuntu quality. I'm part of the quality community 
> team, and I can't want to dive in and help test all this cool stuff 
> you guys are putting together!
>
> To that end, I wanted to make you aware of a few things happening now 
> to help support the testing of these applications. There is a 
> pre-existing project,https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/, and 
> tracker, http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/, that we as a team utilize for 
> manual testing the current ubuntu desktop images, applications, 
> hardware, etc.  In a nutshell, we as a team regularly test the desktop 
> images and applications on a variety of real and virtual hardware. We 
> maintain our tests in the repository linked above, and utilize several 
> 'qatrackers' to record our results, ie packages.qa.ubuntu.com.
>
> With that in mind, we want to help test this new platform, including 
> the core apps. I've started to point folks within our community 
> towards the work that is going on here in order to have some nice 
> testing going on as your applications reach a usable state. As an 
> example, I took a look at the calculator app which has made great 
> strides against the design that has been posted thus far. Using that 
> design, I wrote several tests that walk through a series of actions 
> and expected results. You can see the result here:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nskaggs/ubuntu-manual-tests/ubuntutouch/view/head:/testcases/touch/ubuntu%20calculator%20app
>
> This test then ends up looking this this on our tracker (note this is 
> just a mockup on a dev site, don't submit results :-) );
>
> http://packages.qa.dev.stgraber.org/qatracker/milestones/250/builds/27920/testcases/1560/results
>
> This raw seem a bit weird to look at for some of you, but I would 
> refer you to the following pages on how we write and maintain our 
> manual tests:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TestCaseFormat
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/Manual
>
> So, what does this mean for all of you?
>
> -- If you have some manual tests for your application, please, create 
> and submit them to the repository!  We'll make sure our testing events 
> utilize them. There's great tutorials if your new to what a manual 
> test should look like.
> -- If you need some manual testing of your application, please let me 
> know. We in ubuntu quality can help write tests if needed and test 
> your app.
>
> We as a community also have been working with autopilot, and have some 
> experience in writing those types of tests as well. There's some 
> excellent resources to help you, and I'm always interested in 
> automated tests if you need help :-)
>
> In short, let us help make your apps rock! We're excited about the 
> possibilities of the new platform and eager to get our feet wet and 
> help test all the new stuff.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicholas
>
>

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