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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Stress Testing and QA before release
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-03-11 21:53:17
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On Monday 11 March 2002 6:35 pm, Chris January wrote:
> Good idea. A formal test schedule for every package would be great! But
> some packages have so many possible input combinations that it would take a
> prohibitive amount of man-hours to test everything so maybe just testing
> core programs would be better. Or draw up a more rigurous testing schedule
> for core programs and a more relaxed schedule for others.

Yes, I would definitely focus on kdelibs and kdebase.

> DCOP tests are good, but they don't catch presentation bugs such as
> rendering problems or window too small to contain widgets or problems when
> you use large fonts, etc.

Good point :)

I think though that the focus should of course be on catching crashes, 
hopefully human testers would catch widget/fonts problems more easily...


> For every test that an application fails, a bug report should be filed.

Hmm, possibly some human intervention should go on here in order to check that 
it isn't generating complete rubbish ;)

> Furthermore it would be great to have someone to chase up maintainers who
> have outstanding bugs assigned to them.

In the real world though, I'm not sure that this would make any difference 
apart from to piss the developer off -- this is open source, and people do 
what they want ;)

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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