[Fedora QA] #72: Proposal for reducing test permutations

[Fedora QA]

#72: Proposal for reducing test permutations
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  Reporter:  rhe          |       Owner:  rhe      
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  Fedora 14
 Component:  Test Review  |     Version:           
Resolution:               |    Keywords:           
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Comment (by rhe):

 Except the above raid tests, I plan to remove the following tests: [[BR]]

 1. Preupgrade:
   *
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_from_older_release
 QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_from_older_release]

 Reason: In real world, users upgrade directly to the release after the
 next should be very few, and no release criteria is defined on this.

 2. Repository:
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Additional_CDDVD_Repository
 QA:Testcase_Additional_CDDVD_Repository]

 Reason: After booting with a media, the CD-ROM would be locked, therefore,
 it's normally impossible to exchange the CD/DVD to add another repo.
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/InstallSourceDvd
 InstallSourceDvd] and InstallSourceCdrom test installation using DVD/CD
 package repo.

 3. Package Install - Minimal:

  *
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PackageSetsMinimalPackageInstall
 QA/TestCases/PackageSetsMinimalPackageInstall]

 Reason: In F14, the tests would be grouped according to install media, and
 default package install is included in each media installation. So I'd
 like to remove minimal install, since default one has already covered it.

 4. Partitioning - Ext2 & UninitializedDisks

  *
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningExt2OnNativeDevice
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningExt2OnNativeDevice]

 Reason: How many people will install using ext2 filesystem?!

  *
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningUninitializedDisks
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningUninitializedDisks]

 Reason: I think the other partitioning tests and
 QA/TestCases/BootMethodsKVM(Install on a new created kvm) have somehow
 covered this test.

 What do you think? Feel free to comment if you have any
 ideas/suggestions/disagreements about these. Thanks.

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