[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:           
 Keywords:               |  
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 = problem =

 So far we have similar test cases for a same test area, and it's not quite
 useful to test all of them.

 = analysis =

 Take RAID cases for example, as James said:"We aren't hitting any problems
 anymore that are specific to RAID0 but work on RAID5. The main focus for
 this tests is to make sure that we identify a real-world RAID install
 partitioning setup, anaconda can execute that partition scheme, and dracut
 can boot it."

 = enhancement recommendation =

 I would like to propose for removing the following cases and keeping a
 representative one instead:

 RAID:
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningRootfsOnRaid1
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningRootfsOnRaid1]
  *
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningRaid0OnLvmDevice
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningRaid0OnLvmDevice]
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid0
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid0]
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid5
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid5]
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid6
 QA/TestCases/PartitioningUsrOnRaid6]
 (Replace them with this case:
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Install_to_Hardware_RAID
 QA:Testcase_Install_to_Hardware_RAID])
 [[BR]]

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

 FTP Install:
  * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/InstallSourceFtpAnonymous
 QA/TestCases/InstallSourceFtpAnonymous]
 (keep the
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/InstallSourceFtpNonAnonymous
 NonAnonymous case])
 [[BR]]

 If you have any thought about it, please feel free to tell, thanks.

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