Kopete Test Plan

[Görkem Çetin]

Hi

Geoff Huang wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>About a month ago, there was some discussion on this
>list about regressions, quality, and test procedures
>for KDE.  The thread appears here:
>
>http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/2005-August/001644.html
>
>In August, I'd volunteered to write up a test plan,
>demonstrating how I think regression testing should
>proceed.  I'm nearly complete with a UI test plan for
>Kopete, which is at
>http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KopeteTestPlan.
>  
>

A structured test plan looks neat and also has
the feature that any tester can fill in the blanks
and a quality controller can see whether a test
is omitted or not. Moreover, you can also link
a test bug to a Bugzilla entry and subsequent
tests can smash the bugs, if any.

One plan I've derived by looking at other tests
of Mozilla, Sun and (..one more well known IT
company..) and modified according to needs
can be seen from http://bugs.uludag.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=313
(3rd attachment - "kalite testi üçüncü sürüm"
is the latest). It's in line with your Wiki counterpart.
However, it tests a desktop environment,
divided by subsections (installation, desktop,
openoffice.org, networking, printer system etc).
Thus, every subsection has a task list which
should be tested individually.

Just FYI.

>There was previously discussion about how automation
>of UI tests is unfeasible, given lack of free UI
>automation tools.  I don't know anything about this,
>so I can't comment to this, but generally I would
>encourage as much automation as possible.
>  
>

Is anyone on the list experienced with UI automation
tools? Which one(s) have you used and got satisfying
results?

Best
Görkem