0.88/Testing

Install testing environment

SoaS

Get the latest Soas image from here.

You can use the [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle Mirabelle instructions] to flash Sugar on a Stick onto your USB device.

Fedora 13

See Community/Distributions/Fedora.

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

Follow instruction to install latest sugar packages and keep them up-to-date.

Testing plans

0.88 Features

For instructions how to test the Features listed below please have a look at the section "How to test" of each Feature page. Please add yourself with your test result to the table of each Feature.

• Enhanced Gettext

Enhanced Gettext Testing plan - Enhanced Gettext adds an extra search path for translation files for Sugar activities. This allows deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process.

Name	Works	Comment
Juan Pérez	no	None

• Allow the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks

3G Support Testing plan - This Feature allows the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks using a device in the frame.

Name	Works	Comment
Jane Doe	yes	None

• Font configuration

Font configuration - Distributors/deployers can use a GConf preference to customize the Sugar font size.

Name	Works	Comment
Marko Marković	yes/no	None

Language Tests

• Test your own native language (can be set using the Control Panel).
  • is the 3G Feature listed in the section above fully translated?

Name	Language	Works	Comment
Max Mustermann	German	yes/no	None

Backwards compatibility tests

• Migrate the Journal

Please verify that the Journal is migrated fine after an update. For example from 0.82 to 0.88.

Name	Versions	Works	Comment
Pierre-Paul-Jacques	0.82-0.88	yes/no	None

Connectivity: Different internet connections

You should test here if you can connect with a WEP and WPA/WPA2 network, if a wired connection is possible and the 3G connection test can be logged here, too.

Name	Connectivity Type	Works	Comment
Pierre-Paul-Jacques	WEP	yes/no	None

Bug Fix testing

For particular bugs you can indicate your test results in this section. This can be done by more than one person, just separate name and result by a column.

Bug	Description	Works?	Tester	Comment
#1	Example	yes, no, yes	Walter Bender, Tomeu Vizoso, Gary C. Martin	None
#1358	Synchronize changes made to a Journal entry	yes/no	Name	None
#330	Several Access Points with the same essid	yes/no	Name	None
#1497	Name input screen is deactivable	yes/no	Name	None
#1602	Can't connect to WEP shared key networks	yes/no	Name	None
#1601	Intro screen doesn't unfreeze dcon	yes/no	Name	None

How to write a good bug report

You should note the following in the bug report:

• the version you are using
• steps to reproduce

In most cases it is of interest to the developers to look at the Sugar logs. Instructions how to get the logs can be seen here.

Meetings

Where

Meetings are held online using IRC, Internet Relay Chat. You can read here more how to use IRC to join the meeting. The meeting will be taking place on the channel #sugar on the irc.freenode.net server, irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar, or webchat client.

01 March 2010

When: 14:00 UTC (9 EST)

Testing Day February the 16th

This will be an asynchronous effort, hence "Testing day" :). However we will do two kickstart meetings. One at 14:00 UTC and one at 19:00 UTC. In these meetings we will give a short introduction to what to test and answer questions about how to get the image on a usb-key and of course how to gather the results.

When

• Kickoff-Meeting 1: 14:00 UTC
• Kickoff-Meeting 2: 19:00 UTC

Attendees

Are you planning to attend? Add your name and your expertise below!

Name	Tester	Feature owner	Coordinator	Special skills
Simon Schampijer	yes	yes	yes
Sebastian Dziallas	yes	no	soas
Ryan Kabir	yes	no	no
Mel chua	yes	no	soas pilot	community QA, SMW-based test case systems
Satyaakam Goswami	yes	no	Hindi Translation	testing
Gary Martin	yes	no	no

Testing image

Soas Testing day build

(This is the latest soas nightly build. At the moment starting activities is broken in that build. As this is a daily snapshot it will not be fixed in time for the meeting, hence use the build from the link above.)