Massive Konqueror Regression

[Geoffrey Huang]

Christian,

That seems like a good suggestion, and I'd be willing to do as you
suggest.  I haven't contributed to KDE before, so I might ping you with
procedural questions.

-g

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 22:02 +0200, Christian Loose wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:34, Geoffrey Huang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:12 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > >
> > > this is true if we have just a few people doing it. if there were enough
> > > people using KDE from SVN on a day to day basis, statistically we'd get
> > > rather good coverage. but if we had a small number of very active testers
> > > (e.g. a q/a department that was funded) then building task lists would be
> > > the first order of business.
> >
> > I have to disagree about this.  If we assume that the distribution of
> > probabilities for code executed was uniform, then you'd be correct:
> > given a moderate number of testers, all code paths would get executed.
> > I'd be willing to bet, however, that the majority of KDE users will
> > execute the same areas of code.  Specifically, I'd bet that error cases
> > don't get executed enough, nor do advanced features.  Having a test plan
> > would ensure that all parts of the code get executed.  This also
> > supports the argument for automation of these tests, since it'll become
> > tedious to execute all corners of the code.
> >
> > Still, if the case is that there aren't good (or readily accessible)
> > automation tools out there, the very least is to have a test plan.
> >
> 
> Well, we have a wiki (http://wiki.kde.org), right? 
> 
> So how about the following plan:
> 
> a) you create a test plan page there
> b) start with a simple application like KCalc and write down how you tested it
> c) come back here and tell new contributors how easy it is to 
>     1. write those test plans
>     2. follow those plans during KDE's alpha and beta phase
> d) announce your test plan project on the dot
> 
> Your work will be really appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks! Christian
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