Subsurface BT test with OSTC

[Rick Walsh]

On 9 January 2017 at 04:10, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 8, 2017, at 12:28 AM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The more testing we get before release, the better. Even a small
> > variation in steps one does might reveal a bug. (Especially the
> > developers tend to do things always the same way, as they know the
> > software too well :D)
>
> That's precisely the problem. Also, multiple platforms / OSs.
> We now have one positive report for an Petrel on Fedora. I don't know if
> this was with the AppImage or a Fedora build from OBS or something
> the tester built themselves (stupidly forgot to ask).
>
That was built from master.  I just tested Petrel 2 download with the beta
2 Appimage, and the beta 2 OBS Fedora 24 build.  Both were successful.
Note that there is no Fedora 25 repository on the OBS, but the 24 version
worked on 25.

> What about other dive computers?
> What about other Linux flavors, especially with the AppImage?
> What about Mac and Windows.
>
I also tested on Windows 10, and it worked.

>
> Testing is actually really hard and most developers massively
> under-estimate the complexity and effort that it takes to test something
> like Subsurface well.
>
> /D
>
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