How to Create an Automated Benchmarking Test

Thomas Corwin dog1489 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 7 15:16:52 UTC 2013


Hello everyone!

I am going a science project for school on the differences between 32 and 64-bit operating systems and I have decided to use Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. 

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Thomas Corwin

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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 06:57:26 +0530
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
> To: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
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> Subject: Re: Kickstarting growth for quality
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> I like to join in testing kubuntu.
> I am a first time tester.
> 
> Thinking on how to test an entire distro.
> 
> Is there any link on what and how to do testing?
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> Is it manual or automated?
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> Do we need to all the hundreds of applications available in that distro?
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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:31:26 +1000
> From: Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com>
> To: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
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> Have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities
> It should have all the information you need.
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>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like to join in testing kubuntu.
>> I am a first time tester.
>> 
>> Thinking on how to test an entire distro.
>> 
>> Is there any link on what and how to do testing?
>> 
>> Is it manual or automated?
>> 
>> Do we need to all the hundreds of applications available in that distro?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 09:43:33 +0800
> From: Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com>
> To: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Kickstarting growth for quality
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> Hello Nicholas,
> 
> If Ali would permit, I would like to co-lead the effort with Ali, since I
> have the most experience of inadquate testers (I test mostly for flavours
> that have a small testing team, e.g. Edubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, and these
> flavours have under 3-5 active testers).
> 
> Ali doesn't have a blog of Planet Ubuntu (since he isn't a Ubuntu Member
> yet), so I will help in promoting through Planet Ubuntu and through Google+.
> 
> Regards,
> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
> Ubuntu Studio Release Manager, Ubuntu QA member
>> On 2013/9/7 ??4:20, "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As part of the last vUDS, we held a session on Quality efforts in the
>> flavor world. The largest source of feedback was that more people are
>> needed to help with testing. Armed with this feedback, we decided to put
>> together a core group of folks who would be interested in promoting quality
>> efforts across all flavors. Sound interesting?
>> 
>> I'd like to request for volunteers who would be interested in meeting and
>> brainstorming ideas to help increase our outreach as a community. This
>> would be a small working group of people who are interested and can
>> dedicate themselves to put some ideas into action over the last couple
>> months of the cycle. An idea needs people behind it in order to succeed,
>> and that's the goal of this group.
>> 
>> That said, you don't have to join a special group to help grow our
>> community! Ubuntu Global Jam is coming up and I would encourage everyone to
>> participate locally or remotely with others, and to incorporate testing as
>> part of there jamming. Social networks and other communities you
>> participate in are also great sources to share about what's going on and
>> invite others to join you in our quality efforts.
>> 
>> Thanks everyone!
>> 
>> Nicholas
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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:48:48 +1000
> From: Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com>
> To: Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com>
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> Wait, ali isn't a member?
> We must fix this immediately
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Nicholas,
>> 
>> If Ali would permit, I would like to co-lead the effort with Ali, since I
>> have the most experience of inadquate testers (I test mostly for flavours
>> that have a small testing team, e.g. Edubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, and these
>> flavours have under 3-5 active testers).
>> 
>> Ali doesn't have a blog of Planet Ubuntu (since he isn't a Ubuntu Member
>> yet), so I will help in promoting through Planet Ubuntu and through Google+.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
>> Ubuntu Studio Release Manager, Ubuntu QA member
>> 
>>> On 2013/9/7 ??4:20, "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As part of the last vUDS, we held a session on Quality efforts in the
>>> flavor world. The largest source of feedback was that more people are needed
>>> to help with testing. Armed with this feedback, we decided to put together a
>>> core group of folks who would be interested in promoting quality efforts
>>> across all flavors. Sound interesting?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to request for volunteers who would be interested in meeting and
>>> brainstorming ideas to help increase our outreach as a community. This would
>>> be a small working group of people who are interested and can dedicate
>>> themselves to put some ideas into action over the last couple months of the
>>> cycle. An idea needs people behind it in order to succeed, and that's the
>>> goal of this group.
>>> 
>>> That said, you don't have to join a special group to help grow our
>>> community! Ubuntu Global Jam is coming up and I would encourage everyone to
>>> participate locally or remotely with others, and to incorporate testing as
>>> part of there jamming. Social networks and other communities you participate
>>> in are also great sources to share about what's going on and invite others
>>> to join you in our quality efforts.
>>> 
>>> Thanks everyone!
>>> 
>>> Nicholas
>>> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 07:10:40 +0100
> From: Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com>
> To: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Kickstarting growth for quality
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>> On 06/09/13 22:03, Jackson Doak wrote:
>> ted: That's great, let us know if you need any help
>> 
>> nicholas: +1 to ali leading the team, he's great with social
>> networking and recruiting new people. I'd like to be the xubuntu
>> representative unless elfy wants to.
> 
> That's fine with me - it will be good to have someone helping with the 
> QA for Xubuntu in the next cycle, hopefully you can concentrate on this 
> for the next few months and ensure we have sufficient testers for the 
> LTS cycle.
> 
> Elfy
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 07:15:06 +0100
> From: Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com>
> To: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Kickstarting growth for quality
> Message-ID: <522AC46A.7040700 at btinternet.com>
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>> On 07/09/13 02:43, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Nicholas,
>> 
>> If Ali would permit, I would like to co-lead the effort with Ali, 
>> since I have the most experience of inadquate testers (I test mostly 
>> for flavours that have a small testing team, e.g. Edubuntu and Ubuntu 
>> Studio, and these flavours have under 3-5 active testers).
> 
> I don't really see the need for a small team of people to have a co-lead.
> 
> If the team works properly as a team then shouldn't be cause for it. 
> That means that anyone who is leading it makes sure that any information 
> given out it concise and easily read and understood.
> 
>> Ali doesn't have a blog of Planet Ubuntu (since he isn't a Ubuntu 
>> Member yet), so I will help in promoting through Planet Ubuntu and 
>> through Google+.
> 
> That shouldn't be a problem - other people can blog things when necessary.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
>> Ubuntu Studio Release Manager, Ubuntu QA member
> Elfy
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> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 07:15:35 +0100
> From: Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com>
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>> On 07/09/13 02:48, Jackson Doak wrote:
>> Wait, ali isn't a member?
>> We must fix this immediately
> Can we keep the QA list for QA issues please
> 
> Elfy
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