I hope John doesn't mind me sharing his question, since it's a good one :-)
From google,
/Smoke testing is non-exhaustive software testing, ascertaining that the
most crucial functions of a program work, but not bothering with finer
details/
I think that sums up what I mean when I say smoke tests. In practice,
you'll find the smoketests to be a series of yes/no questions. This
differs from the step-by-step instructions with actions and expected
results of our normal testcases. Those tests (like for example, iso
testing), are meant to cover as many details as possible to find out any
and all bugs. When we test something as large as the kernel or audio, we
typically utilize testcases that are more in line with smoke-testing to
ensure general compatibility and functionality. Make sense?
Now, this probably belongs on our wiki someplace. Phil? Others? Ideas?
Nicholas
On 08/07/2012 06:32 PM, John Kim wrote:
It may sound silly, but what are smoke tests?
On Aug 7, 2012 3:23 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs"
<nicholas.ska...@canonical.com <mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>>
wrote:
For those of you running quantal looking for something easy to
test (outside of the iso testing going on this week :-) ),
consider testing the new version of pulseaudio for quantal. The
testcase is simple and is located here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/225/builds/20458/testcases
It's a basic series of smoketests. Details on how to use the
qatracker are here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/CallforTesting/Walkthrough
As always if you need help, email myself or the list. Cheers!
Nicholas
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