3.0 testing priorities

Amit Chaudhuri amit.k.chaudhuri at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 08:54:11 PST 2013


Do you think Is it necessary/helpful to remove old versions applications
and maybe the subsurface build products in the source tree in order to get
clean tests? Or would it be better to leave the previous stuff in place?

A



On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Amit Chaudhuri <amit.k.chaudhuri at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have OS X 10.8 and OpenSUSE 12.1 to hand.  Latest git is now on both so
> > happy to carry out various tests.  I suspect that OS X is where most
> effort
> > ought to go (more coverage on Linux IIRC).  Any particular areas anyone
> > would suggest for particular attention?
>
> The important part for OS X is testing of the binary packages that I
> create. The bugs that we have tend to come from pieces missing or being
> wired incorrectly in the installers.
>
> Additionally we have repeatedly seen cases where there are subtle
> differences between regular Linux, Ubuntu, Windows and Mac.
>
> So my request for the Mac testing would be
>
> a) get the latest installer (after dealing with all the pending changes
> here I'll put one up for upload -
> http://subsurface.hohndel.org/downloads is browsable and you should be
> able to easily find the latest) and test exactly what an end user would
> get, not what you would build
>
> b) go through an as complete as possible user experience. So download
> from a dive computer, import from an SDE or DLD file (one of the
> compressed formats that require XSLT to work correctly). Edit things,
> modify trips, maybe download GPS info from the web service.
>
> c) make sure that Mac integration is sane. Are there things that don't
> behave as they should?
>
>
> Thanks, this is extremely helpful
>
> Now we need a volunteer to do the same with the Windows
> installer. Besides Lubomir, do we have anyone who usually usues Windows?
> But actually, once again I don't want people to build themselves but use
> the installer instead, so anyone with access to XP / Win7 / Win8 can
> help...
>
>
> /D
>
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