Writing manual tests

[Elfy]

On 24/07/14 04:16, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Friends.
>
> This is Shrini from chennai.
>
> I am exploring the manual test cases.
>
> I have few queries.
>
> 1. There are tons of applications for ubuntu. Do we need to write test
> cases for all?
>
> or just for the applications reported here.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/+bugs?field.tag=todo
Just for those that are reported as a bug.
>
> 2. For any desktop application, we can write hundreds of test case.
> How many test cases we have to write?
> Is it okey of we write for major features only?
Writing to cover major features is fine, if in future more is needed it 
can be added.
> 3. Why do we write manual test cases? Do we have people for doing these
> written manual tests before every release? are we doing all the manual
> tests for every release?
There are people who test against testcases specifically and there are 
people who run the dev version constantly who can do the same as they 
are workiing.
>
> 4. I am in ubuntu 12.04. Do I need to upgrade to latest development version
> of ubuntu to write manual test cases?
The testcases are in general needed against the latest available version 
which does point to using the latest dev version, though you can do so 
with a virtual machine rather than upgrading your prod machine.
> 5. We add a number before each test case.
>
> example: 1414_Deja-Dup
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-testcase/ubuntu-manual-tests/trunk/view/head:/testcases/packages/1414_Deja-Dup>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testcase/ubuntu-manual-tests/trunk/files/head:/testcases/packages/
>
> What are the numbers?
> How to add a new number for a new test case?
You don't add the number - testcase admins will do that when we merge 
and sync your newly prepared testcase.

>
> Thanks a lot.
>
Thanks for coming forward to help :)

Elfy

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