Fedora Core testing

Mohammed Omar omar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 21 13:44:13 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 08:47 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: 
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Mohammed Omar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I do Fedora Core testing as a part of Community Distro test at IBM .
> > Basic idea is to find bugs at early stages of Distro release on  X and P
> > series hardware. Initially I started fedora testing on Power box and
> > later will test on Xseries.I would like to share the releases of FC8
> > tested,Hardware used, test suites executed and no. of bugs found.
> For one  there is no longer a "Fedora Core"  there is just "Fedora"   its just 
> F8 
Thanks for your info. 
> 
> > Covered Releases:
> > ----------------
> >
> > Releases: Date: status:
> > FC8test1 07 Aug 2007 finished
> > FC8test2 13 Sept 2007 finished
> > FC8test3 04 Oct 2007 finished
> > FC8GA 08 Nov 2007      currently testing
> >
> > Test suites used for testing above releases
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > Installation/Upgradation testing
> > NFS/HTTP/FTP/local installations.
> > Smoke testing includes LTP
> > Stress testing
> > Core kernel and regression testing
> > Memory stress
> > FS stress testing etc,.
> sounds very intresting 
> 
> >
> > Hardware Used for fedora core testing:
> > ---------------------------------------
> > PPC64 : P520, P55 , JS21 , P630b
> > i386:  X445       [ Used for network tests ]
> > X86_64:  X3400    [ Used for network tests ]
> >
> >
> > Total no. of Bugs Found: 11 ,  closed: 3
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Listing some of the bugs here...
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239658
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=268241
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353021
> 
> perhaps you could have a tracker bug to keep track of all the bugs you find  
> so they can all be easily referenced

Ofcourse, generally i raise bugs in IBM bugzilla and that will be
mirrored out to the community(Redhat bugzilla). I have given some of the
links which mirrored to Redhat bugzilla as IBM bugzilla cannot be
accessed outside.

> > Most of the bugs closed internally. Basically I do concentrate on system
> > testing to find more bugs in kernel.
> >
> > New Features tested:
> > --------------------
> > EXT4 fs tested with fs stress, NFS ,SAMBA.
> > I am also looking to test Kdump on Fedora.
> 
> Cool :)
> 
> > I would like to invite Fedora users and testers to join in testing
> > fedora effectively.
> 
> how do you propose to achieve this goal?
> do you have a test matrix you follow?   do you have resources that you could 
> give people access to help with testing?
We have our own test plan for Fedora Testing. 
  
> 
> It sounds like a great goal.  you should probably work with Will Woods to help 
> with his QA efforts.  you should also speak with David Woodhouse about ppc 
> specific QA testing.
Thanks for your quick reply and valuable suggestions . Definitely, I am looking into this. 

--thanks
omar




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