<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/kick-starting-quality-for-ubuntu-touch.html">http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/kick-starting-quality-for-ubuntu-touch.html</a> 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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev">https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev</a>) 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: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:514105DA.3030103@canonical.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 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,<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/</a>, and tracker, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/">http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/</a>, 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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enskaggs/ubuntu-manual-tests/ubuntutouch/view/head:/testcases/touch/ubuntu%20calculator%20app">http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nskaggs/ubuntu-manual-tests/ubuntutouch/view/head:/testcases/touch/ubuntu%20calculator%20app</a> 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 :-) ); <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://packages.qa.dev.stgraber.org/qatracker/milestones/250/builds/27920/testcases/1560/results">http://packages.qa.dev.stgraber.org/qatracker/milestones/250/builds/27920/testcases/1560/results</a> 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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TestCaseFormat">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TestCaseFormat</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/Manual">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/Manual</a> 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 <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>