On 14/08/12 11:04, Ho Wan Chan wrote: > Mart, > > Use Gema's opinion: She's an official Canonical employee, while I am > only a active community tester...
Hey, everyone's opinion count and is welcome! More than a canonical employee I am a QA Engineer, I have been for many years now, so I tried to give an explanation for a new comer from that viewpoint, I hope everyone can benefit from it and I am open to discussion if you guys think it may help. Thanks everyone for your help, Gema > 2012/8/14 Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com > <mailto:gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com>> > > Hi Mart, > > I disagree with Ho Wan Chan, here is my opinion. > > On 14/08/12 10:13, "Mart Küng" wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a couple of questions about how to configure my machine > when testing. > > Is there a significant difference if any between testing in virtual > > machine and installing on real hardware? > > On virtual machines you are testing some parts of Ubuntu. On real > hardware you are testing others, in fact, depending on which hardware > you have, you are increasing our chances of finding problems for your > specific HW, because we don't have infinite HW to test on. Basically, > when you test on HW you are using drivers that noone else is potentially > using. > > In the Platform QA Team in Canonical, we are testing with VMs for the > daily ISO testing, and we test on a variety of HW the different kernel > SRUs, so that we are reasonably confident that they will work on a wide > variety of HW. > > Testing on HW is different from testing on VMs, both useful depending on > what you are trying to achieve, since with ISO testing we are trying to > cover as much HW as we can, testing on HW will be more useful from that > viewpoint. > > > > > Would it be reasonable to dual boot version I'm testing with my > regular > > everyday system? I ask this because of my netbook: on my desktop I > could > > easily use virtual machine or change HDD-s. But netbook is to weak for > > virtual machine and changing HDD seams to troublesome. > > You can dual boot your everyday system, but there are risks that an > installation goes wrong and you blow up your current system. That is the > reason why we don't recommend it. If you are confident you know your > system and that won't happen to you, I still recommend you have backups > of all the important documents before attempting the testing along your > existing system. Other than that, it is very useful that you install the > current version along an existing one, because many users will be doing > just that, and we want them to be able to do it. > > > Thanks, > Gema > > > > > Mart > > > > > > > -- > Gema Gomez-Solano <gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com > <mailto:gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com>> > Ubuntu QA Team https://launchpad.net/~gema.gomez > Canonical Ltd. http://www.canonical.com > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > -- Gema Gomez-Solano <gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com> Ubuntu QA Team https://launchpad.net/~gema.gomez Canonical Ltd. http://www.canonical.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
