Is there a testing framework for end users?

[Jeff Lane]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 13:51, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 19:32 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-qa-tools
>>
>> then run
>>
>> checkbox-gtk
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>
>
> Thanks, I just ran this and I don't see a test for touch screens! Darn,
> I was too expectant at first, and I am now thinking, that I recall
> reading that touch screens can appear as a mouse to the system?
>
> Are the tests in checkbox-gtk good enough to test tablet pc or
> touchscreen devices?
>
> (going to run the full tests that are ticked anyway, and carry on down
> that route, I'd like some hints and tips please, thank you!)

For what it's worth, you're running the same thing you get when you
run the "System Testing" tool found in the app lens (or Administration
Menu on Maverick and earlier).

There are no touch screen tests, however, and a good part of that is
that there simply no touch screen hardware available to anyone who
wanted to write a test for touch screens and MT gestures.  There are
plans to fix that by Oneiric though.

Also, feel free to pull a branch of checkbox from launchpad, write
tests and submit them.  We welcome community contributions to Checkbox
as with other packages in Ubuntu.  Writing manual tests is not that
difficult.  Pull the source code for Checkbox, look in the jobs
directory and you'll see plenty of examples of manual (using the
manual plugin) and automated (using the shell plugin) tests.

The scripts directory holds test scripts that are executed by the
various Jobs if necessary.  You'll see that some jobs call scripts in
the scripts directory, and some call simple shell commands, some call
external applications (like totem, firefox, etc).

Cheers,

Jeff